Blog
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CFLS Welcomes Margot Young as Director
The Centre for Feminist Legal Studies (CFLS) is pleased to announce that Margot Young, Professor at Allard Law, has been appointed Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies for the next two years. Professor Young's directorship began July 1, 2022.
Aug 9, 2022 Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
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Meet Régine Tremblay: Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
The Centre for Feminist Legal Studies (CFLS) is pleased to announce that Régine Tremblay, Assistant Professor at Allard Law, has been appointed Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies. Professor Tremblay will assume the role starting September 1, 2021.
Sep 1, 2021 Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
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Promoting Gender Equality in Parenting Assessments: A Virtual Launch of Rise Women’s Legal Centre’s Section 211 Toolkit
On April 7, 2021, the CFLS co-hosted a launch with Rise Women's Legal Centre for the release of their Section 211 Toolkit. A link to the report and the recording of this event is available here.
Apr 7, 2021 Promoting Gender Equality in Parenting Assessments: A Virtual Launch of Rise Women’s Legal Centre’s Section 211 Toolkit
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Recording: Now More than Ever: Reimagining Discrimination Law for Intersectionality – A Book Talk with Dr. Shreya Atrey on Intersectional Discrimination (OUP 2019)
On March 4, 2021, Dr. Shreya Atrey gave a talk on her book, Intersectional Discrimination (OUP 2019) as part of the Allard Law Faculty Colloquium Series.
Mar 5, 2021 Recording: Now More than Ever: Reimagining Discrimination Law for Intersectionality – A Book Talk with Dr. Shreya Atrey on Intersectional Discrimination (OUP 2019)
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Recording: ‘Righting’ and Rewriting: Reflections on Feminist Judgments Projects
Beginning with the Women’s Court of Canada in the early 2000s, a number of jurisdictionally-specific feminist judgment projects (FJPs) have grown up around the world. These creative, collaborative initiatives involve feminist scholars and lawyers reimagining and rewriting judicial decisions through a feminist lens, and accounting for intersecting inequalities based on disability, race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity and national identity. On this panel, scholars from a range of jurisdictions reflected on the possibilities and challenges of FJPs.
Feb 23, 2021 CBL Assistant
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Recording: HAVE WE LEARNED FROM THE PAST? GENDER JUSTICE AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW (W/ DR. VALERIE OOSTERVELD)
On November 17, 2020, Dr. Valerie Oosterveld spoke in the CFLS lecture series on an in-depth UN Women-funded study she undertook with a small team focused on the Special Court for Sierra Leone. She used the insights gained from that study to illustrate international criminal law’s progress in understanding the role of gender in international crime, as well as highlighting both familiar and unexpected obstacles to this progress. She concluded by considering the current state of gender justice within the ICC.
Nov 19, 2020 Recording: HAVE WE LEARNED FROM THE PAST? GENDER JUSTICE AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW (W/ DR. VALERIE OOSTERVELD)
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Recording: Fraser v Canada (2020 SCC): 20/20 Vision on Equality?
On October 30, 2020, the CFLS brought together an all-star panel of feminist scholars and lawyers to discuss the recent Supreme Court of Canada case, Fraser v Canada, and its implications on gender equality and s. 15 of the Charter. The recording of the event can be accessed in this blog post.
Nov 3, 2020 Recording: Fraser v Canada (2020 SCC): 20/20 Vision on Equality?
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Revolutionary Feminisms Book Launch - Recording
In this timely and unique book, Brenna Bhandar and Rafeef Ziadah trace forty years of anti-racist feminist thought by interviewing key revolutionary thinkers. Collectively, these interviews with leading scholars trace the ways in which Black, Indigenous, post-colonial and Marxian feminisms have created new ways of seeing, new theoretical frameworks for analysing political problems, and new ways of relating to one another. At this online event on October 14, 2020, we heard from the book’s authors and three of the interviewees: Avtar Brah, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Avery Gordon.
Oct 14, 2020 Revolutionary Feminisms Book Launch - Recording
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Feminisms & Law 101 - Recording
On October 1, 2020, the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies hosted Feminisms & Law 101, which was an opportunity to hear from a number of Allard Law professors about how they bring diverse feminist lenses to their research across a range of subject areas – from the law of cities to corporate and commercial, criminal, employment, and Indigenous law and more!
Oct 1, 2020 Feminisms & Law 101 - Recording
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Power, Gender, and Race in the Legal Profession
On March 5, 2020, Dr. Carol Liao delivered the final keynote speech at the 43rdAnnual Women in Law Dinner at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver, one week before the city went into COVID-19 lockdown. She spoke on power, gender, and race in the legal profession, and received a standing ovation following her speech. The event was organized by the Allard Law Women’s Caucus and attended by 300+ women lawyers and their supporters.
Jun 19, 2020 CBL Assistant
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Graduate Student Profile: Moira Aikenhead
Her work focuses on the legal regulation of technology-facilitated gender-based violence, which involves circumstances where gender-based violence occurs online or the harms are made more impactful by online technologies. During the roundtable, she explains how gender-based violence is a broader category that includes violence against women but goes beyond this definition to capture other forms of gender-based violence such as transphobic violence.
Jun 9, 2020 CBL Assistant
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Graduate Student Profile: Elspeth Kaiser-Derrick
Working from her previous L.L.M. work and with her supervisor, Dr. Emma Cunliffe, her book reviews 175 court decisions to examine sentencing of Indigenous women, who remain overrepresented in Canadian prisons. By using the feminist theory of the victimization-criminalization continuum, her book seeks to offer a method to strengthen the Gladue analysis applied to sentencing involving Indigenous women.
Jun 9, 2020 CBL Assistant
