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In 2007, she co-edited Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change and Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship and Legal Activism. Law and Families appeared in 2006. Her book Child Custody, Law, and Women's Work was published in 2003. Canadian Feminist Literature on Law: An Annotated Bibliography appeared in 1999.
Halpern v Canada (AG), [2003] O.J. No. 2268 is a June 10, 2003 decision of the Court of Appeal for Ontario in which the Court found that the common law definition of marriage, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman, violated section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Marlys Edwardh CM (born 1950) is a Canadian litigation and civil rights lawyer who was one of the first women to practice criminal law in Canada. [16] In 1946, Gretta Wong Grant became the first female lawyer of Chinese descent in Canada. [17] In 1954, Violet King Henry became the first Black female lawyer in Canada. [18]
The Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (Revue Femmes et Droit) is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering the impact of law on women's social, economic, and legal status. It was established in 1985 and is published by the University of Toronto Press. [1] The Journal is currently based at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa.
While divorce is a civil matter in Canadian law, lobbying from Jewish women's groups such as the Canadian Coalition of Jewish Women for the Gett [43] served to highlight the problem of agunah in Canada, and the connected problem of obtaining a get in the Jewish rabbinical courts. The Act was amended in 1990 to provide that: [44]
Second, feminist legal theory is dedicated to changing women's status through a rework of the law and its approach to gender. [1] [3] It is a critique of American law that was created to change the way women were treated and how judges had applied the law in order to keep women in the same position they had been in for years. The women who ...
A History of Marriage, published by Penguin Canada in 2009, is a non-fiction book by Elizabeth Abbott, the Canadian author of A History of Celibacy (1999) and A History of Mistresses (2003) that combines general history and personal histories of marriage. The book is a study of mostly North American rituals of courting, nuptials, marriage, sex ...
Selected Writings of Leslie Hall Pinder, The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXI, Supp., 2007, College of Law, West Virginia University, ed. James R. Elkins. Includes selections from Pinder's writing, including the courtroom scenes from "On Double Tracks," a reprint of essays and a long verse poem, "The World is as Sharp as a Knife."