Feminist initiatives in the curriculum are complemented by a commitment to research and scholarship in feminist legal studies. Feminist approaches and analyses are developed in relation to many areas of law, including:
- Criminal Law and Evidence (Profs. Benedet, Cunliffe and Grant)
- Constitutional Law (Profs. Parkes and M. Young)
- Corporate Law (Prof. Sarra)
- Disability Law (Prof. Grant)
- Immigration & Refugee Law (Profs. Dauvergne and Kaushal)
- International Law (Prof. Mickelson)
- Social Welfare Law (Prof. M. Young)
Work is being done as well in feminist legal theory and legal education, and on the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, class, disability and culture. See below for information on recent publications and current projects.
*Please note that this page is under development and does not contain an exhaustive list of all publications and projects by our faculty affiliates and students.
Faculty Publications
Moira Aikenhead
- “Image-based abuse in intimate partnerships in Canada: Lessons from the criminal case law” in Summerer Kolis & Gian Marco Caletti, Criminalising Intimate Image Abuse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023).
- Suzie Dunn & Moira Aikenhead. “On the internet, nobody knows you are a dog: Contested authorship of digital evidence in cases of gender-based violence” (2022) 19 Canadian Journal of Law & Technology 396-407.
- Moira Aikenhead. “Revenge pornography and rape culture in Canada’s non-consensual distribution case law” in Jane Bailey, Nicola Henry & Asher Flynn, eds, The Emerald International Handbook of Technology-facilitated Violence and Abuse (Bingley, UK: Emerald Group, 2021) 533.
- E. Aloni & R. Tremblay, House Rules: Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of Law (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2022).
UBC Library Location
Erez Aloni
- E. Aloni & R. Tremblay, House Rules: Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of Law (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2022).
UBC Library Location
- Marital Rules for Unmarried Couples: Feminist Objections to a Feminist Proposal, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family (forthcoming 2025)
- Married by Default, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Volume 62 (forthcoming 2025)
Efrat Arbel
- “Rethinking the ‘Crisis’ of Indigenous Mass Imprisonment” (2019), 34(3) Canadian Journal of Law and Society 437-456
Janine Benedet
- “Absence of Motive in Sexual Assault Cases” (2019) 55 C.R. (7th) 18-21
UBC Library Location
- “Judicial Misconduct in the Sexual Assault Trial”
Full text: (2019) 52:1 U.B.C. L. Rev. 1-55
Jie Cheng
- "The Legal Status of LGBTQ+ in China: A Law and Politics Perspective" (2024) 32:4 Constitutional Forum.
- “Judicial Independence in the Asia Pacific Region from the Perspective of Comparative Judicial Politics” in N. Reayat, R. Smith & M. Cho, eds, Judicial Independence in Transitional Democracies (Routledge, 2024).
Emma Cunliffe
- "Revisiting Enhanced Protection: Implications from a Practical Case Study" (2024) 10:2 Santander Art & Culture Review.
- Emma Cunliffe, Murder, Medicine and Motherhood (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011) (available as an e-book: http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781849461573).
Catherine Dauvergne
- C. Dauvergne & K. Jastram, "Special Issue on Gender" (2024) 36:1-2 International Journal of Refugee Law.
- Catherine Dauvergne & Hannah Lindy
“Excluding Women”
Full text: (2019) 31:1 Int'l J. Refugee L. 1-29
Allard Research Commons
Isabel Grant & Janine Benedet
- “Confronting the Sexual Assault of Teenage Girls: The Mistake of Age Defence in Canadian Sexual Assault”
Full text: (2019) 97:1 Can. Bar Rev. 1-42
UBC Library Location
Allard Research Commons
- “Unreasonable Steps: Trying to Make Sense of R. v. Morrison”
Full text: (2019) 67:2 Crim. L.Q. 14-41
Isabel Grant
- “The Role of Section 718.2 (a)(ii) in Sentencing for Male Intimate Partner Violence Against Women”
Full text: (2018) 96:1 Can. Bar Rev. 158-188
UBC Library Location
Allard Research Commons
Bethany Hastie
- “Workplace Sexual Harassment and the "Unwelcome" Requirement: An Analysis of BC Human Rights Tribunal Decisions from 2010 to 2016”
Full text: (2020) 32:1 C.J.W.L. 61-84
- “Assessing Sexually Harassing Conduct in the Workplace: An Analysis of BC Human Rights Tribunal Decisions in 2010–16 ”
Full text: (2019) 31:2 C.J.W.L. 293-316
Allard Research Commons
Michelle LeBaron
- “Women Awake. Gender and Commemoration in Contemporary Ireland” in Jelke Boesten & Helen Scanlon, eds., Gender and Memorial Arts: From Commemoration to Mobilisation
Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 2020
Carol Liao
- Carol Liao, "Early East and Southeast Asian Women in the Canadian Legal Academy" in Anna Lund and Virginia Torrie, eds., Early Women in the Canadian Legal Academy (UBC Press, forthcoming 2025).
- Carol Liao, "An Anti-Racist Feminist Agenda for Sustainable Corporate Law" in Christopher Bruner and Marc Moore, eds, A Research Agenda for Corporate Law (Edward Elgar, 2023).
Debra Parkes
- Debra Parkes, Jane Sprott & Isabel Grant, "The Evolution of Life Sentences for Second Degree Murder: Parole Ineligibility and Time Spent in Prison" (2022) 100:1 Canadian Bar Review.
- "Starting With Life: Murder Sentencing and Feminist Prison Abolitionist Praxis," in Kelly Struthers Montford & Chloë Taylor, eds., Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice London: Routledge, 2021.
- Sonia Lawrence & Debra Parkes, “R v. Turtle: Substantive Equality Touches Down in Treaty 5 Territory,” Case Comment (2020) 66 Criminal Reports (7th) 430-447.
Jocelyn Stacey
- Thomas Gilmour and Jocelyn Stacey, "Access to Environmental Justice in Canadian Environmental Impact Assessment" (2024) 9 Facets.
- Isabelle Lefroy and Jocelyn Stacey, "'Add Women and Stir': The Potential and Limits of GBA+ in Canadian Impact Assessment Law" (2022) 34:2 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.
Régine Tremblay
- "Recoding Family Law: Toward a Theory of Relationships of Economic and Emotional Interdependency in the Civil Code of Quebec" (2023) 68:3 McGill Law Journal.
- “Plurifiliation et ‘multiple parentage’: réflexions de droit comparé" (2023) 52:3 Revue de droit de l’Université de Sherbrooke.
- Julianna Ivanyi and Régine Tremblay, “Measuring Success of Family Law Reforms” in Erez Aloni and Régine Tremblay, House Rules: Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2022).
- Régine Tremblay, “Thoughts on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Habitual Residence and the Supreme Court’s Decision in Office of the Children’s Lawyer v. Balev”, (2019) 89 SCLR (2d) 227-251
- Régine Tremblay, "Réflexions sur le dialogue entre la médiation familiale et le droit de la famille" in Gabriel-Arnaud Berthold, Charles Antoine Péladeau & Jérémie Torres-Ceyte (eds), Le dialogue en droit civil (Montreal: Thémis, 2018)
Faculty Projects
"The Most Severe Sanction: Lived Experience of Life Sentences in Canada" (2018-2022)
Debra Parkes (principal investigator), Isabel Grant and Kelly Hannah-Moffat (co-investigators)
Funded by SSHRC Insight Grant
“Collective Representation for the Precarious Workplace” (2018-2020)
Bethany Hastie (sole investigator)
Funded by SSHRC Insight Development Grant
“5 years later: An Analysis of Family Law Reform in British Columbia – Access to Justice and Family Diversity” (2017-2019)
Régine Tremblay
Funded by the Law Foundation of British Columbia (January 1st, 2018 – December 31, 2019) and Hampton Fund Research Grant (September 1st, 2017 to August 31st, 2019).
Conference Celebrating the Work of Professor Susan Boyd (July 1st, 2018 to July 1st, 2019)
Régine Tremblay and Erez Aloni (co-investigators)
Funded by the Franklin Lew Innovation Fund
“Workplace Sexual Harassment: Assessing the Effectiveness of Human Rights Law in Canada” (2018-2019)
Bethany Hastie
Funded by CBA Law for the Future Fund
Student Publications
Learn more about the work being done at the Allard School of Law. Below is a list of past publications from students at the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies.
Charlotte Baigent, "Why Gladue Needs an Intersectional Lens: The Silencing of Sex in Indigenous Women’s Sentencing Decisions" (2020) 32:1 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 1-30.
