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Feminist Legal Analysis Section Newsletter

Volume 18, No. 2 - May 2012
In this Issue:
  • The Charter is 30!
  • Miss G_Project Wins Prestigious Award
  • Legal Icon Westmoreland- Traoré Retires
  • Review of The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women’s Rights
  • SLUTWALK: FLAC's FALL Programme
  • Two Links About Feminism and What May Become the Next Wave
  • Farewell, Madeleine Parent
  • Doris Ogilvie, Judge and Royal Commission Member

Volume 18, No. 1 - October/Octobre 2011
In this Issue:
  • Upcoming Program - SlutWalks: Part of the Solution, or Part of the Problem?
  • The Supreme Court of Canada on Advance Consent to Unconscious Sexual Activity: R. v. J.A., 2011
  • Strength Across Borders - Strength within Borders: Women Supporting Women, Networking, Feted Fun
  • Slutwalk: A Viral Response to Blaming the Victim
  • Message From the Chair
  • FLAC Executive 2011
  • Manitoba Law Discriminatory
  • The F Word: Who Wants to be a Feminist?
  • Feminist History Society Releases Second Book This Fall
Volume 17, No. 2 - May/Mai 2011
In this Issue:
  • FLAC Congratulates Successful Bencher Candidates!
  • Case Brief on Withler
  • Talking to Paulette Pommells, Litigator, Mediator and Coach…
  • The Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA): "Promoting and Maintaining the Rule of Law . . . and human rights”
  • Interview with CLA President, Boma Ozobia
  • The Miss G_Project Update
Volume 17, No. 1 - March/Mars 2011
In this Issue:
  • International Women’s Day 1911 - 2011 : In Celebration of Its Global Centenary
  • Women, Wellness and Work-Life Balance
  • FLAC Members Vying for Bencher
  • The Legacy of Black Legal Trailblazers: Black Firsts in Canada: 1855 to 2011
  • Co-venturer or Unpaid Employee? — The Supreme Court of Canada Revisits Compensation for Unjust Enrichment of a Common Law Spouse
  • Arbitrator Sanctions Benefit Reductions for Older Workers
Volume 16, No. 2 - February/Février 2010
In this Issue:
  • Accessibility and the Courts: The Vision of a Barrier-Free Court System
  • Women, Power, Politics: What is Our Comfort Zone?
  • In Brief: TWB, Miss G Project and Congrats Madam Justice Oleskiw
     
Volume 16, No. 1 - September/Septembre 2009
In this Issue:
  • Celebrate a Champion of Equality 
  • FLAC Dinner Program - November 9, 2009: Women, Power, Politics: What is our Comfort Level?
  • Book Review - Women, Power, Politics: The Hidden Story of Canada's Unfinished Democracy, by Sylvia Bashevkin
  • FLAC Congratulates The Hon. Madam Justice Heather McGee on her Recent Appointment to the Newmarket Family Superior Court
  • An Abbreviated Version of The Hon. Madam Justice Heather McGee's Speech at her Swearing-in on June 16th, 2009
  • The African and Canadian Women's Human Rights Project (ACWHRP)
  • Hush! FLAC Section Executive Committee is Calling You!


    Volume 15, No. 2 - April/Avril 2009

    In this Issue:
  • Congratulatory Open Letter to the Women of Miss G_ Project
  • The Miss G_ Project
  • The Feminist Legal Analysis Section Meets POWER on International Human Rights Day
  • Building Staff Confidence - The Mentoring Method
  • Message from the Chair
Volume 15, No. 1 - November/Novembre 2008

In this Issue:
  • Wiarton Airport Celebrates Canada's First Female Pilot
  • Election Reflection
  • Celebrating the Feminist Legal Analysis Section on its 15th Anniversary 

Volume 14, No. 3 - April/Avril 2008

In this Issue:

  • What Women Lawyers Really Think of Each Other
  • Global Economic Heimlich Maneuver for Pay Equity!?
  • Mentoring and Being Mentored Across Culture
  • Tips for Effective Mentoring
  • FLAC Salutes Carole Curtis

Volume 14, No. 2 - December/Décembre 2007

In this Issue:

  • The Persons Case
  • Message from the Chair
  • Revolution Rosa Parks led not over
  • Is Canada Fulfilling its International Legal Commitments to Equality for Women?
  • 2008 OBA Institute of Continuing Legal Education
  • OBA Young Lawyers' Division: What Membership in Our Section Can Do for You
  • Section Executive 2007-2008

Volume 14, No. 1 - September/Septembre 2007

In this Issue:

  • Message from the Chair
  • Presentation to Ursula Franklin of Ontario Bar Association Feminist Legal Analysis Section Award for her Commitment to Equality - May 22, 2007
  • Feminism in the Here and Now - Notes from Dr. Ursula Franklin's Speech
  • Summer Institute on Women's Rights in Cholula, Puebla Mexico
  • New Orleans: Human Levee for Human Rights
  • Newsletters Now Electronic: Message from the Chair of Sections
  • National Pro Bono Mentorship Program/Le programme national de mentorat pro bono
  • Upcoming Program
  • Section Executive 2007-2008

Volume 13, No. 3 - April/Avril 2007

In this Issue:

  • Message from the Chair
  • Legal Historians Look at Women in the Law: Two Lectures by Professor Mossman (Osgoode Hall Law School) and Professor Todd (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law)
  • Third World Debt: Women and the World
  • Submission to the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform
  • Bencher Election 2007
  • A New Look at Education: How Miss G_ Sees the World
  • Darfur's Pain is the West's Shame
  • Family Law: Enforcement of Orders
  • Section Executive 2006-2007

Volume 13, No. 2 - January/Janvier 2007

In this Issue:

  • Message from the Chair
  • Listserv
  • The First Women Lawyers: A Comparative Study of Gender, Law and the Legal Profession
  • Women and Work: Now that We Have it All, What Do We Have?
  • No Woman, No Cry
  • The National Action Committee on the Status of Women "NAC" Makes a Comeback!
  • Withholding ghet Permission to be Reviewed by Supremes
  • Canadian Judicial Council Issues Statement of Principles on Self-Represented Litigants and Accused Persons
  • Family Law Arbitration: A New Regime
  • Section Executive 2006-2007

Volume 13, No. 1 - September/Septembre 2006

In this Issue:

  • Women and children first? ... perhaps not yet: Fall-out from Recent Supreme Court of Canada Family Law Decisions
  • Message from the Chair
  • Finding Solutions for Articling and Beyond
  • Canada taking in Burmese
  • Encountering Slavery in China
  • Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal
  • Awards
  • Subscribe Now for Your Section's List Serve
  • Section Executive 2006-2007

Volume 12, No. 3 - May/Mai 2006

In this Issue:

  • Forum on Women's Activism in Constitutional and Democratic Reform, Ottawa, February 13-15, 2006
  • Message from the Chair
  • The Challenges of Running a Feminist Law Firm: A Primer
  • Focus on Family Law - Do cuts to family law legal aid discriminate against women?
  • Speech to a Conference on UN Reform and Human Rights, Harvard Law School, February 26, 2006
  • Funding Approved for Project to Identify Solutions to Issue of Retention of Women in Private Practice
  • Section Executive 2005-2006
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Volume 12, No. 2 - March/Mars 2006

In this Issue:

  • FLAC Participates in OBA Submissions on Bill 27 (Family Arbitration)
  • Message from the Chair
  • Nova Scotia's Newest Judges - Anne Derrick and Jamie Campbell Affirmed/Sworn-in to Provincial and Family Courts
  • Press Release Issued by the Commonwealth Lawyers Association
  • Premier Seeks Deal on Pay Equity Dispute
  • Walking the Talk
  • Support Encouraged for Pro Bono Supreme Court of Canada Cases
  • Access to Supreme Justice: Women Lawyers Who Have Made a Difference - November 10, 2005
  • FLAC Reception: Meet the Women Benchers - October 19, 2005
  • YOU ARE WHO YOU HELP
  • Section Executive 2005-2006

Volume 12, No. 1 - September/Septembre 2005

In this Issue:

  • Linda Silver Dranoff Receives the 2005 Commitment to Equality Award
  • Message from the Chair
  • Women and "People-of-Colour" in Law: On Becoming a Person - On Becoming a Lawyer
  • A Summary of the Report to the Law Society of Upper Canada - The Changing Face of the Ontario Legal Profession, 1971-2001
  • Housing Found for 178 Homeless
  • Legal Legend Goes Back to Serving Quebec's Poor
     
 

Volume 11, No. 2 - March/Mars 2005

In this Issue:

  • Women and Globalization
  • Message from the Chair
  • Feminization of Poverty in Bankruptcy Law
  • Ending the Clawback of the National Child Benefit Supplement from Families on Social Assistance: Charter Litigation and the Hands Off! Campaign
  • Posthumously Martin's Symophonic Actions Win Inaugural Linden Award
  • Dianne Martin: An Icon in the Criminal Bar
  • The Changing Face of Law: Report Shows Women Gaining as Minorities Lag
  • Scots Mothers Can Breastfeed in Public - by Law
  • Gender Equality and Development Goals Inextricably Linked, UN Agency Says
  • Book Review
  • Feminist Web-surfing: Websites of Interest to Feminist Lawyers
  • Upcoming Events
  •  

     

Volume 11, No. 1 - October/Octobre 2004
 

In this Issue:

  • SCC Soared to Gender Parity: Appointment of Erudite Women Jurists Makes National and Global History
  • Message from the Chair
  • Women in Politics (September 22, 2004)
  • How the Parties (When in Power) Treated Women's Rights
  • Socio-Legal Issues about Childcare
  • Robert Klotz on "Sexually Transmitted Debt" and Other Feminist Theories on Debt
  • Canadians 'Unwilling' to Link Trade with Social Values
  • Can Fair Voting Systems Really Make a Difference
  • Women in Business Facing 'Glass Cliff'
  • Rape Counselors See their Work Altered by Issues in Bryant Case
  • Study: Economic Consequences of Widowhood, 1990 to 2001


 

 

Volume 10, No. 2 - January/Janvier 2004

 

In this Issue:

  • Feminist Legal Analysis Section Events
  • Message from the Chair
  • Racism Charged as Black Soldier Gets Fraction of Lynch's Pension - Injured in Same Battle
  • Reintroducing a Radical Idea
  • Book Reviews
  • Law Foundation of British Columbia - Diversity Profile
  • Upcoming Events
 

Volume 10, No. 1 - October/Octobre 2003

In this Issue:

  • Madam Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella
  • Message from the Chair
  • OBA Section Chairs Meeting
  • New Research Portal
  • Breadwinner Decides Who Cleans House
  • An Important Human Rights Tool
  • Letter to the Editor
  • Upcoming Events

Volume 9, No. 3 - April 2003

In this Issue:

  • Case Comment
  • Comment on the Youth Criminal Justice Act
  • Women's Law Association and OBAP Luncheon on Work/Life Balance
  • CEDAW Review of Canada's 5th Report
  • 2003 Family Law Award for Excellence Won by the Feminist Legal Analysis Section's Founding Chair
  • Promoting Dialogue, Creating Change
  • The Stephen Lewis Foundation
  • The Power of the Fourth
  • Water for Profit
     

Volume 9, No. 2 - January 2003

In this Issue:

  • 9th Annual Professional Breakfast
  • Whither the Bar Admission Course? An Update
  • Feminist Rebels Opened Doors
  • The Romanow Report: A Prescription for Change?
  • Hopes Betrayed: Trafficking of Women and Girls to Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina for Forced Prostitution
  • Upcoming Events
     

Volume 9, No. 1 - September 2002

In this Issue:

  • Claire L'Heureux-Dube
  • Mary Eberts
  • Reaction and Pro-action
  • Coroner's Inquest on Kimberly Rogers
  • Few Protections for China's New Labourers
  • Cocoa Industry Moves Against Harmful Labour
  • Toni Morrison Receives Doctors of Letters from U of T
  • Property Rights Extended to All Common Law Relationships in Manitoba
  • The National Organization for Women (California) Family Court Report 2002
  • Update from British Columbia
  • Upcoming Events


 

Volume 8, No. 3 - April 2002

In this Issue:

  • Why we must save legal aid
  • Collaborative Family Law
  • May 6th Tribute Dinner for Madame Justice L'Heureux-Dube
  • The Feminist Legal Analysis Section's Annual Commitment to Equality Award is Dedicated to Mary Eberts
  • Pay Equity: Are We There Yet?
  • Remembering Kimberly Rogers
  • Federal Pay Equity Task Force
  • International Women's Day Event
  • How to Evaluate a Web Site
  • Upcoming Events


 

Volume 8, No. 2 - January 2002

In this Issue:

  • Linda Silver Dranoff
  • Doris Anderson's 80th Birthday Gala Banquet
  • New Reproductive Technology
  • The Domestic Violence Court Program
  • The Law Society of Upper Canada's Model Policy on Accommodations
  • Report from the CBA (BC Branch)
  • Money Laundering Legislation
  • Case Comment
  • Shelter Enhancement Program
  • Ivory Towers
  • Women and Investing
  • What's It All About Ally?
  • Web Sites
  • Upcoming Events


 

Volume 8, No. 1 - August 2001

In this Issue:

  • Upcoming Events
  • Message from the Chair
  • The Sierra Leone Special Court: A Precedent-Setting War Crimes Tribunal
  • Class Action Claim for Damages from "Head Tax" Struck
  • Child custody and access: The experiences of abused immigrant and refugee women
  • Supreme Court of Canada Finally Releases Decision in Boston v. Boston
  • Linda Silver Dranoff Awarded Governor General's Award
  • National Family Law Section Proposes Changes
     

Volume 7, No. 2 - April 2001

In this Issue:

  • Upcoming Events
  • Commitment to Equality Award 2001 — Michele Landsberg
  • Access to Justice for Women — Proposed Uniform Workplace Tribunal
  • Landmark Rape and Slavery Case at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
  • Status of Women Canada's Policy Research Fund (PRF) Call for Nominations
  • Feminist Legal Analysis Section Executive 2000-2001
  • Madam Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella
  • Message from the Chair
  • OBA Section Chairs Meeting
  • New Research Portal
  • Breadwinner Decides Who Cleans House
  • An Important Human Rights Tool
  • Letter to the Editor
  • Upcoming Events