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
Erez Aloni & Régine Tremblay
- House Rules: Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of Law (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2022).
UBC Library Location
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
Catherine Dauvergne
- “Gendering Islamophobia to Better Understand Immigration Laws”
Full text: (2019) J Ethnic & Migration Studies
- 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
- “Power and the Gender Imperative in Corporate Law” in Beate Sjåfjell and Irene Lynch Fannon, eds., Creating Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
- See also: “Why We #PressforProgress in Corporate Boardrooms,” Report on Business Op-Ed in The Globe and Mail, 7 March 2018.
Debra Parkes
- Isabel Grant & Debra Parkes
“Constitutionalizing a Flawed Defence”
(2019) 55 C.R. (7th) 137-146
UBC Library Location
- “Punishment and Its Limits”
(2019) 88 Sup. Ct. L. Rev. (2d) 351-367
UBC Library Location
Allard Research Commons
- “Solitary Confinement, Prisoner Litigation, and the Possibility of a Prison Abolitionist Lawyering Ethic”
Full text: (2017) 32:2 Can. J.L. & Jur. 165-185
Allard Research Commons
SSRN Paper
Jocelyn Stacey
- The Constitution of the Environmental Emergency, (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2018) (273 pp) (19 April 2018)
- Vulnerability, Disaster Law and ‘the Beast’ (2018) Alberta Law Review 55:4 (17,820 words) (2018)
Régine Tremblay
- “Quebec’s Filiation Regime, the Roy Report’s Recommendations, and the ‘Interest of the Child” (2018) 31:1 Can J F L 199 (44 pages).
- “D’un océan à l’autre, book review of Nicole LaViolette and Julie Audet, L’essentiel du droit de la famille dans les provinces et territoires de common law au Canada, Cowansville, Éditions Yvon Blais, 2014” (2017) 30:2 Can J Fam L 313 (16 pages).
- Alexandra Popovici and Régine Tremblay, “Le don en famille: promesses et écueils” in Partenariat de recherche – Familles en mouvance, Les familles sous l’œil du droit - Bulletin de Liaison, vol 15, fall 2017 (5 pages).
- “Le dialogue des personnes en droit de la famille. Le cas de la médiation familiale” in Gabriel-Arnaud Berthold, Charles-Antoine Péladeau et Jérémie Torres-Ceyte (eds), Le dialogue en droit civil (Montreal: Thémis, 2018) (21 pages).
- Benoît Moore and Régine Tremblay, Fascicule 14 “Formation du mariage” in Jurisclasseur coll. “Droit civil”, Droit des personnes et de la famille (Montreal: LexisNexis, 2018) (44 pages).
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.
