Standard Margins: Contemporary Issues in Canadian Law and Sexuality
CONFIRMED PRESENTERS
Craig Bavis and Marjorie Brown
Craig Bavis and Marjorie Brown are labour lawyers working at Victory Square Law Office,
LLP, a progressive Vancouver firm dedicated to protecting the rights of unions and workers.
Craig has extensive experience in representing unions in labour arbitrations and court in the
private and public sectors and has been published in the Alberta Law Review on section 15
of the Charter. In addition, Craig has presented at the B.C. Studies and Society for Applied
Anthropology conferences on first nations issues.
Marjorie also represents unions in labour arbitrations and court. As well, she represents
unions and individuals in equality law and rights seeking cases before the human rights
tribunal and in court. She has published articles regarding disability rights and has spoken
on issues such as discrimination, the duty to accommodate and privacy rights at various
conferences
Dr. Lori Chambers
Dr. Lori Chambers is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Lakehead University, where she teaches feminist theory, queer studies and courses in women’s legal history and contemporary legal issues. She is the author of Married Women’s Property Law in Victorian Ontario (Toronto: The Osgoode Society for Legal History and the University of Toronto Press, 1997), and of Misconceptions: Unwed Mothers and the Law in Ontario, 1921-1969 (Toronto: The Osgoode Society for Legal History and the University of Toronto Press, forthcoming, 2007). A forthcoming article in Canadian Journal of Women and the Law is based upon the research that will be presented in this conference paper.
Phil C.W. Chan
An expert on human rights, international law and constitutional law, Phil C. W. Chan is Visiting Scholar/Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, University of Ottawa. Since graduating from the University of Hong Kong with his LL.B. and Rowdget W. Young Medal in Law in 2002 at the age of 19 and from the University of Durham with his LL.M. in 2004, Mr Chan has been pursuing independent academic research and has written over twenty articles published or forthcoming in numerous refereed international journals. He is Guest Editor of the International Journal of Human Rights Special Double Issues on Equality in Asia-Pacific: Reality or a Contradiction in Terms? (Vol.11 Nos.1/2 March 2007) and Protection of Sexual Minorities since Stonewall: Progress and Stalemate in Developed and Developing Countries (Vol.12 Nos.3/4 September 2008), both of which will also be published as books by Routledge with Forewords by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He is Member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Human Rights and the Journal of Homosexuality. Previously, he was Researcher at the world's largest energy law practice Baker Botts and has held visiting positions at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Keele University School of Law (Gender, Sexuality and Law Research Group), the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, and the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University.
Elaine Craig
Biography: Master in Laws from Yale Law School (2006) in which I focused on sexual minority rights from a comparative constitutional law perspective. LLB from Dalhousie Law School (2004) I am currently a JSD at Dalhousie where I continue to focus on issues of law and sexuality, as well as teach 2nd year constitutional law. BA from University of Alberta (1997).
Christopher A. Deeble
Christopher Deeble is a second year law student at the University of Ottawa. He is an English translator, a speechwriter and the former Chief of English and French Editorial Services for Governor General Adrienne Clarkson. Link to Full Paper
Nadia Guidotto
Nadia Guidotto, MA, LLM, is currently pursuing a PhD in political science at
York University. She recently defended her LLM thesis on the 1981 bathhouse
raids in Toronto, Ontario. Currently, she is working on exploring intersexed
bodies as the site of a variety of forms of regulation. In particular, she is
interested in the role that medical and legal frameworks play in such
regulation, both in historical and contemporary contexts.
Bernard P. Haggerty
JD cum laude, Howard University; LLM, University of Utah; Ph.D. Candidate. Mr. Haggerty is a Domestic Violence Attorney for the Lummi Nation.
Rebecca Haskell, M.A. Student, Simon Fraser University and Mary Shearman, MA. Student, Simon Fraser University
Mary is studying educating youth through Fine Arts, specifically theatre, in the department of Women’s Studies. Her thesis is focused on the intersection of feminist theatre and theatre for young audiences.
Rebecca’s research in the School of Criminology focuses on the regulation of sexuality and gender. For her M.A. she is examining homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools.
Fiona Kelly
Fiona Kelly is a PhD candidate and was recently appointed an Assistant Professor at the UBC Faculty of Law. The focus of her PhD dissertation is the legal recognition of lesbian motherhood.
Lisa M. Kelly
Lisa Kelly is currently articling with the Department of Justice in Ottawa. She graduated with a J.D. from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law where she was a Fellow of the International Programme on Reproductive and Sexual Health Law and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law and Equality. Lisa recently co-authored a report with Professor Rebecca Cook for the Department of Justice on polygyny and Canada’s obligations under international human rights law.
Alana Klein
Alana Klein is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and a J.S.D. Candidate at Columbia Law School in New York. She writes about health and the law.
Michael Kotrly
B.A. (UBC), J.D. (Toronto), is currently articling at Ogilvy Renault LLP in Toronto and will afterwards be clerking for Justice Sexton of the Federal Court of Appeal. Link to Full Paper
Kathleen Lahey
Kathleen Lahey is a Professor and Queen's National Scholar at the Faculty of Law, as well as co-coordinator of Feminist Legal Studies at Queen's University.
Professor Lahey has published, consulted, and litigated on issues relating to equality and human rights, including same-sex marriage, lesbian, gay, transgendered, transsexual, and bisexual people rights, racial and gender discrimination, the rights of Metis women, women and poverty, taxation, property law, human rights, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Professor Lahey has served on the board of Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (Egale), the Canadian Bar Association of Ontario Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee, the Law Commission of Canada Advisory Group on Adult Relationships, the Ontario Advisory Council on Women's Issues, and the Ontario Fair Tax Commission.
Prof. Lahey represented three of the B.C. lesbian and gay couples who won the right to marry in B.C. and before the Supreme Court of Canada in the same-sex marriage reference, and is the author of Are we 'Persons' Yet: Law and Sexuality in Canada (Univ. of Toronto, 1999), The Impact of Relationship Recognition on Lesbian Women in Canada: Still Separate and only Somewhat 'Equivalent' (Status of Women Canada, 2001), and, with Dr. Kevin Alderson, Same-sex Marriage: The Personal and the Political (Insomniac, 2004).
She teaches Law and Sexuality, Property, Tax, and Tax Policy at Queen's Faculty of Law
Nancy Nicol
Nancy Nicol is an Associate Professor in Visual Arts at York University. Her documentaries on the history and politics of lesbian and gay rights organizing in Canada include Gay Pride and
Prejudice(1995),Stand Together (2002), Politics of the Heart(2005),The End of Second Class(2006) and We are family (in production).
Michael Noseworthy
Michael Noseworthy is a currently attending law school at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He also has an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Dalhousie.
Ajnesh Prasad
Ph.D. candidate (York), M.A. (Queen’s), B.A. Honors (SFU)
Ajnesh has presented his research at numerous academic conferences, including a paper at the 85th Annual Southwestern Social Science Association (New Orleans, 2005), where he was awarded the Prize for Outstanding Student Paper. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Canadian Woman Studies and the Journal of Bisexuality.
Sean Rehaag
Sean Rehaag is a Doctoral Candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto specializing in migration law. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law, the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at UC Hastings, and the Chaire de recherche en droit international des migrations at the University of Montreal. In addition to his academic work, Sean offers pro-bono legal assistance to asylum seekers and undocumented persons through the FCJ Refugee Centre, focusing primarily on gender and sexual orientation based refugee and immigration applications. Link to Full Paper
Takashi Shirouzu
Takashi Shirouzu is a LL.M student at Osaka University Graduate School of Law and Politics, Japan. He has been on exchange at UBC law since January of 2007. He is majoring in constitutional law from the comparative perspective, especially among Japan, Canada and US. He has LL.B from Keio University, Japan.
Elin Sigurdson
Elin Sigurdson is a recently-called lawyer articling at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin in Vancouver. She has been a part of Pivot Legal Society's Sex Work Law Reform Committee since 2003 and is a co-author of PIVOT's reports on the interactions between Sex Work and the Law, Voices for Dignity and Beyond Decriminalization. She presented PIVOT's harm-reduction approach to sex work and law reform to the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug-Related Harms in Belfast, Ireland in 2005.
Laura Smith
Laura Smith has a multidisciplinary background, including a double major in Criminology and Psychology, and a second undergraduate degree in Political Science, and her interests are in International Humanitarian Law.
Martine Stonehouse and Susan Gapka
Martine Stonehouse, a transwoman, launched the landmark case with the Ontario Human Rights Commission against the Ontario Government for delisting Sex Reassignment Surgery in October 1999.
Susan Gapka, a transwoman, is completing her Public Policy and Administration degree at York University. Susan helped organise the political advocacy in support of the Sex Reassignment Case.
Claire Young and Susan Boyd
Claire Young is Associate Dean, Academic Affairs and a professor of law at the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia. She teaches, researches and writes on all aspects of tax law and policy. Her other research interests include feminist legal theory and sexuality and the law. In 1998 she published the first Canadian article on same-sex couples and tax in the Dalhousie Law Journal. She was also involved in the Rosenberg case which held that the heterosexist definition of spouse in the Income Tax Act discriminated against lesbians and gay men (as it applied to pension plans) in contravention of the Charter.
Susan B. Boyd is a professor of law and holds the Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at the University of British Columbia, where she teaches and researches in the fields of family law and feminist legal studies. She is also Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies. Her research on family law has included studies of same sex parenting and inclusion of same sex partners in family law. Her current research involves an exploration of shifting conceptions of motherhood within the law and the changing definitions of legal parenthood.
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