About the Contributors / Quelques mots sur nos collaboratrices
- About the Contributors / Quelques mots sur nos collaboratrices
Constance Backhouse is a Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa, whose research examines the history of sexism and racism in Canada. She is currently writing a biography of former Supreme Court Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dubé.
Emmanuelle Bernheim est professeure, département des sciences juridiques de l’Université du Québec à Montréal et chercheure au Centre de recherche de Montréal sur les inégalités sociales.
Kim Brooks is an Associate Professor at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie.
Sarah Buhler is an Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, where she teaches and researches in the areas of clinical legal education, access to justice, and poverty and the law.
Anita Grace is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. She holds a Master of Human Sciences in Conflict Studies from Saint Paul University. Her research primarily focuses on women’s moral and legal regulation. In particular, she looks at how motherhood intersects with women’s criminalization, incarceration, and réintégration.
Louise Langevin est professeure titulaire à la Faculté de droit de l’Université Laval, à Québec, depuis 1991. De 2006 à 2009, elle a été titulaire de la Chaire d’étude Claire-Bonenfant sur la condition des femmes de l’Université Laval. Elle est aussi membre du Barreau du Québec depuis 1986, qui lui a décerné le Mérite Christine-Tourigny en 2010 pour son engagement social et son apport à l’avancement des femmes dans la profession. Elle a été secrétaire juridique auprès du très honorable Feu Antonio Lamer, ancien juge en chef de la Cour suprême du Canada, Ottawa. Elle a été corédactrice de la Revue Femmes et Droit de 1999 à 2012 et a été active auprès de l’Agence universitaire de la Francophonie de 2004 à 2009. Elle travaille avec les différents groupes de femmes du Québec.
Tracey Lindberg is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, Harvard University and the University of Ottawa law schools. Winner of the Governor General’s Gold Medal for her dissertation, “Critical Indigenous Legal Theory” (from which her paper in this issue is derived), Lindberg has been teaching law and Indigenous law for most of her academic career. A citizen of the Kelly Lake Cree Nation, Lindberg’s research interests include traditional Indigenous governments, Cree laws and the translation between Canadian and Indigenous laws, Indigenous women, and [End Page 366] legal advocacy and activism by and for Indigenous peoples. Awarded a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Traditional Knowledge, Legal Orders and Laws, Tracey Lindberg spends much of her time working with Spiritual Leaders, Elders and Indigenous community members recording and translating laws.
Vrinda Narain is Associate Professor at McGill University where she holds a joint appointment in the Faculty of Law and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. She is also Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her research and teaching focus on constitutional law, social diversity, and feminist legal theory.
Jordan BR Palmer articled in criminal defence and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2010. Completing an LLM in Access to Justice studies, Jordan is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, where his research under the supervision of Natasha Bakht focuses on law’s discipline of the sexual citizen.
Jean-Sébastien Sauvé est membre du Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP) et candidat au doctorat en droit (LLD) à l’Université de Montréal. Le droit des personnes, les droits et libertés ainsi que les théories critiques du droit l’intéressent particulièrement.
Heather Shipley is project manager for the Religion and Diversity Project, a SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on the construction, management, and regulation of religion, gender, sexuality, and sexual orientation as identity categories in media, legal, and public discourse.
Kelly Struthers Montford is a SSHRC doctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include critical criminology, women’s imprisonment, and critical animal studies, specifically the role...
