Miami county recognizes a Right to be free of domestic violence
Over at IntLawGrrls, Caroline Bettinger-Lopez writes about how Miami county became the first to recognize the Right to be free of domestic violence. … Commissioner Sally A. Heyman a longtime...
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Where are the women lawyers of literature…?
From my colleague and collaborator in this little reading group, Kate Sutherland at law.arts.culture, a post in anticipation of the first meeting this wednesday. Here’s the info about the Law,...
View ArticleHelp with sorting out this M312/Levkovic/etc issue: Eggs Are People Too!...
a little M312 and Levkovic help over at Columbia’s Gender & Sexuality Law Blog, where Pat Williams back in March 2012 tried to move us away from laughing, screaming, chanting and… Eggs Are People...
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“End of Men” conference in Boston via IntLawGrrls
Great idea for a conference. The book (not to mention the Atlantic cover story) by Hanna Rosin is certainly getting lots of press. Including some pretty trenchant critique, here and here. Here’s...
View Article(canada) Women in University Research: Expert Panel
h/t Mary Jane Mossman Background After the notable absence of female representation in the Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) program, the Minister of Industry, in March 2010, struck an ad-hoc...
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Tweet Roundup for those who don’t do that: Ireland, Ottawa, New Haven, etc.
This new method of embedding tweets should mean you can reply and retweet right from the IFLS site. Want to try it? Ireland/Good Writing/Tragedies #bbpBox_268940435521679360 a { text-decoration:none;...
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NNEWH: women working in particular occupations have an increased risk of...
“This research supports a growing understanding that when it comes to endocrine disrupting chemicals, even low doses can be dangerous” stated Dayna Nadine Scott, [Osgoode colleague and ] Director of...
View ArticleChris Cavanagh: The Urgency for a Praxis of Radical Environmental...
Chris Cavanagh, who attended our Law’s Slow Violence workshop last week, has a beautiful post up at his website about the book, the day & his thoughts. Click over for really thoughtful engagement...
View ArticleThe Faculty Lounge greets new member and questions the relevance of law...
very short post with links over at the Faculty Lounge “are law blogs (still) relevant?” for those of you who want to know…it cites this piece: Brown, J. Robert, Essay: Law Faculty Blogs and Disruptive...
View ArticleMyths about Myths…about Myths?
Helen Reece, reader in law at LSE recently published “Rape Myths: Is Elite Opinion Right and Popular Opinion Wrong?” in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (H Reece, ‘Rape Myths: Is Elite Opinion Right...
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Roundup of Stories from Twitter (jobs, calls, the new Charter of Values etc)...
Higher Education: Smaller/Bigger? @OsgoodeIFLS 18 Sep Queen’s plans to expand law school enrolment http://bit.ly/19cyGjr a revenue move, not an A2J move. “options” for #public #lawschools Ryan...
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They were right/ when they said/ we should never meet our heroes
Maybe it is true that we should never meet our heroes, – or maybe we need to be our own heroes. Have a look at this great piece by Amna Quereshi, recent Ottawa Law grad, in the Toronto Star. I...
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Rebick & Zemon Davis @yorku; Feminism & the Academy at Western
As always, the latest CFR (Centre for Feminist Research at York) is full of gems – talks, CFP’s, opportunities. What a choice at Yorku for October 24th! Natalie Zemon Davis “Regaining Jerusalem:...
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Saudi women’s resistance to driving bans
This October 26 will be another day of protest for Saudi women pressing for the right to drive. The history of these protests goes back to at least 1990 (see wikipedia’s roundup here). This article...
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question everything?: rape law/free speech | davina cooper
QUESTION EVERYTHING?: RAPE LAW/ FREE SPEECH | davina cooper. Do read this. I found it really helpful and i wonder what others will think. Davina Cooper (Kent Law School) includes links which explain...
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‘what it says on the tin’: Feminism Then and Now
h/t to Sarah Keenan (former IFLS visitor now on Faculty at SOAS) for the text of Camille Kumar’s talk and Sarah’s brief and pointed introduction. In the digital “pages” of Feminists@Law. A short read...
View ArticleContraception & Consent: Hutchinson v. The Queen comes out this Friday
The SCC is set to release Hutchinson this Friday, so here’s a brief note + some links. Hutchinson was committed for trial by Justice Derrick in the NSPC R. v. Hutchinson, 2008 NSPC 79 (CanLII) The...
View ArticleJoanne Conaghan and Yvette Russell consider progressive legal strategizing...
Taking on Helen Reece’s mythologizing….. New in Print: Joanne Conaghan and Yvette Russell Rape Myths, Law, and Feminist Research: ‘Myths About Myths?’. In: Feminist Legal Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2014....
View Articlevia feminists@law: Contribution of Feminism to 3 Contemporary Debates About Law
Nicola Barker speaks on ‘Feminism, Family and the Politics of Austerity’ (with accompanying powerpoint slides); Sinead Ring speaks on ‘The Pernicious Nature of Rape Myths and How They Continue to...
View Articlereblogged from Dean Sossin’s Blog | Osgoode’s Approach to the “Integrated”...
can’t exaggerate the importance of this issue. Dean Sossin’s Blog | Osgoode’s Approach to the “Integrated” Law School LPP. April 4, 2014 In November, 2013, Convocation of the Law Society of Upper...
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