Publications

Scholarly Articles

“Race and Gender in the Construction of Legal Professionalism” in Adam Dodek and Alice Woolley eds. In Search of the Ethical Lawyer: Stories from the Canadian Legal Profession (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016) at 126-49.

“Contesting the Legal Culture of Professionalism” International Journal of the Legal Profession v.24, no.1 (March 2017) at 1-21.

“An Introduction to David Wexler, the Person Behind Therapeutic Jurisprudence” International Journal of Therapeutic Jurisprudence (2016) vol.1 at 1.

“Edward Greenspan: A Feminist Reflection on the Eulogies Surrounding His Death” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 27:2 (2015) 157-183.

“‘We Don’t Hire A Woman Here’: Claire L’Heureux-Dubé and the Career Prospects for Early Female Law Graduates from Laval University,” Queen’s Law Journal, 39:2 (Spring 2014) 355-390.

“What If? Career Paths Not Taken: Claire L’Heureux-Dubé and Politics” Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société, 2014, vol. 29.2, 273-288.

“Sexual Harassment: A Feminist Phrase that Transformed the Workplace” Shelagh Day, Lucie Lamarche, and Ken Norman 14 Arguments for Human Rights Institutions in Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2014) 209-236.
Revised version, republished from Canadian Journal of Women and the Law

“Gender and Race in the Construction of ‘Legal Professionalism’: Historical Perspectives”

“Sexual Harassment: A Feminist Phrase that Transformed the Workplace” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 24:2 (2012) 275-300.

“A Feminist Remedy for Sexual Assault: A Quest for Answers,” Elizabeth Sheehy ed. Sexual Assault Law, Practice, and Activism in a Post Jane Doe Era (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2012) at 725-39.

“Sexual Assault and Disability: Saskatchewan, 1942” in Mona Gleason, Adele Perry and Tamara Myers eds. Rethinking Canada 6th ed. (Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, 2010) at 214-39.

“Anti-Semitism and the Law in Québec City: The Plamondon Case, 1910-15” in Daniel W. Hamilton and Alfred L. Brophy, eds. Transformations in American Legal History – Law, Ideology, and Methods; Essays in Honor of Morton J. Horwitz (Cambridge: Harvard Law School, 2010) at 303-25.

“’Bitterly Disappointed’ at the Spread of ‘Colour-Bar Tactics’: Viola Desmond’s Challenge to Racial Segregation, Nova Scotia, 1946” in Nick Larsen and Brian Burtch Law in Society: Canadian Readings (Toronto: Nelson, 2010) at 108-47.

“The ‘Approved’ Common Law Degree” Canadian Legal Education Annual Review (Toronto: Carswell, 2009) at 141-9.

“‘A Revolution in Numbers’: Ontario Feminist Lawyers from the 1970s to the 1990s” in Constance Backhouse and W. Wesley Pue eds. Essays in the History of the Canadian Legal Profession (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2009) 265-94.

“History Will Judge” in T. Brettel Dawson, ed. Women, Law and Social Change 5th ed. (Concord, ON: Captus Press, 2009) 24-27.

“Justice Bertha Wilson and the Politics of Feminism” in Jamie Cameron ed. Reflections on the Legacy of Justice Bertha Wilson (Markham, Ontario: LexisNexis, 2008) 33-52.

“Rape in the House of Commons: The Prosecution of Louis Auger, Ottawa, 1929” in Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry and John T. Saywell, eds. Essays in the History of Canadian Law Volume 10: A Tribute to Peter Oliver (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and the University of Toronto Press, 2008) 33-66.

“Remembering Favourite Feminist Legal Scholarship” with the “Among Friends Collective” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 17:1 (2005) 243-70. “‘Pleasing Appearance...Only Adds to the Danger’: The 1930 Insanity Hearing of Violet Hypatia Bowyer” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 17:1 (2005) 1-13.

“Clara Brett Martin” Biographical Entry in Dictionary of Canadian Biography vol.XV (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) 710-11. 

“Legal Discrimination Against the Chinese in Canada: The Historical Framework” in David Dyzenhaus and Mayo Moran eds. Calling Power to Account: Law, Reparations, and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax Case (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) 24-59. 

“What is Access to Justice?” in Julia Bass, W.A. Bogart and Frederick H. Zemans eds. Access to Justice for a New Century: The Way Forward (Toronto: Law Society of Upper Canada, 2005) 113-46.

“The Chilly Climate for Women Judges: Reflections on the Ewanchuk Decision” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 15:1 (2003) 167-93 - this volume was not released until July 2004.

Republished in Marie-Claire Belleau and François Lacasse eds. Claire L’Heureux-Dubé à la Court suprême du Canada 1987-2002 (Montreal: Wilson & Lafleur, 2004) 521-47.

“Viola Desmond” in Gerald Hallowell ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2004) 179.

“White Women’s Labour Laws” in Gerald Hallowell ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2004) 662.

“Don’t You Bully Me...Justice I Want If There Is Justice to be Had: The Rape of Mary Ann Burton, London, Ontario, 1907" in Jonathan Swainger and Constance Backhouse eds. People and Place: Historical Influences on Legal Culture (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003) 60-94.

“Revisiting the Arthurs Report Twenty Years Later” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 18:1 (2003) 33-44.

“Reflections on Feminist Activism within Two Distinct Universities: Timing and Location for Transformational Activities” Resources for Feminist Research/Documentation sur la Recherche Féministe 29:1 & 2 (2002) 117-24.

“Attentat à la dignité du Parlement: Viol dans l’enceinte de la Chambre des communes, Ottawa 1929” Ottawa Law Review  33:1 (2001-02) 95-145.

“The Changing Landscape of Canadian Legal Education” Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice v.20 (2001) 25-34.  

“Canadian Mythologies About Race” Human Rights Research and Education Bulletin (Ottawa: University of Ottawa, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, December 2001) 1-4.

“‘Race’ definition run amuck: ‘slaying the dragon of Eskimo status’ before the Supreme Court of Canada, 1939” in Diane Kirkby and Catharine Coleborne eds. Law, history, colonialism: The reach of empire (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001) 65-77.  

“‘Race,’ gender and nation in history and law” co-authored with Ann Curthoys, Ian Duncanson and Ann Parsonson in Diane Kirkby and Catharine Coleborne eds. Law, history, colonialism: The reach of empire (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001) 277-300.  

“The Doctrine of Corroboration in Sexual Assault Trials in Early Twentieth Century Canada and Australia” Queen’s Law Journal 26:2 (Spring 2001) 297-338. First published in the Queen's Law Journal.
Awarded the David Watson Memorial Award, presented annually to the author of the paper in the Queen’s Law Journal judged to “make the most significant contribution to legal scholarship.”    

Republished in Pierre Boyer, Linda Cardinal, and David Headon eds. From Subjects to Citizens: A Hundred Years of Citizenship in Australia and Canada (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004) 123-50.  

“The Mother Factor in Australian Child Custody Law 1900-1950” Australian Journal of Legal History 6: 1 & 2 (2000) 51-111.   

“‘Her Protests Were Unavailing’: Australian Legal Understandings of Rape, Consent and Sexuality in the ‘Roaring Twenties’” Journal of Australian Studies n.64 (2000) 14-33.

“Skewering the Credibility of Women: A Reappraisal of Corroboration in Australian Legal History” University of Western Australia Law Review 29:1 (2000) 79-107. First published in the University of Western Australia Law Review

“'Your Conscience will be Your Own Punishment': The Racially-Motivated Murder of Gus Ninham, London, Ontario, 1902” in G. Blaine Baker and Jim Phillips, eds. Essays in the History of Canadian Law in Honour of R.C.B. Risk (Toronto: The Osgoode Society, 1999) 61-114.

“Bias in Canadian Law: A Lop-Sided Precipice” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 10:1 (1998) 170-83.   

“'I Was Unable to Identify with Topsy': Carrie M. Best's Struggle Against Racial Segregation in Nova Scotia, 1942” Atlantis 22:2 (Spring 1998) 16-26.

“Gretta Wong Grant: Canada's First Chinese-Canadian Female Lawyer” Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 15 (1996) 3-46. First published in the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice

“The White Women's Labor Laws: Anti-Chinese Racism in Early Twentieth-Century Canada” Law and History Review 14:2 (Fall 1996) 315-68.   

“The Shining Sixpence: Women's Worth in Canadian Law at the End of the Victorian Era” Manitoba Law Journal 23: 1-2 (1996) 556-73.

Republished in Chris McCormick and Len Green eds. Crime and Deviance in Canada: Historical Perspectives (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2005) at 107-23. 

“An Historical Perspective, Reflections on the Western Employment Equity Award” in Chilly Collective eds. Breaking Anonymity: The Chilly Climate for Women Faculty (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1995) 61-95.

“The Chilly Climate for Faculty Women at Western: Postscript to the Backhouse Report” co-authored with Roma Harris, Gillian Michell and Alison Wylie in Chilly Collective eds. Breaking Anonymity: The Chilly Climate for Women Faculty (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1995) 96-132.

“Epilogue: The Remarkable Response to the Release of the Chilly Climate Report” co-authored with Gillian Michell in Chilly Collective eds. Breaking Anonymity: The Chilly Climate for Women Faculty (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1995) 133-58.

“White Female Help and Chinese-Canadian Employers: Race, Class, Gender and Law in the Case of Yee Clun, 1924” Canadian Ethnic Studies XXVI:3 (1994) 34-52.    

Revised manuscript republished in Wendy Mitchinson et al. eds. Canadian Women: A Reader (Toronto: Harcourt, Brace, 1996) at 280-99.

Republished in Nick Laren and Brian Burtch Law in Society: Canadian Readings (Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1999) at 3-22.

“Racial Segregation in Canadian Legal History: Viola Desmond's Challenge, Nova Scotia, 1946” Dalhousie Law Journal 17:2 (Fall 1994) 299-362. 

“Prosecutions of Abortions under Canadian Law 1900-1950” in Jim Phillips, Tina Loo and Susan Lewthwaite eds. Crime and Criminal Justice: Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume V (Toronto: The Osgoode Society, 1994) 252-92.  

“Esther Forsyth (Arscott; Barnes)” Dictionary of Canadian Biography XIII (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994) 352.

“Physicians, Abortions, and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Ontario” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 10 (1993) 229-49. Read on the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History website

“Clara Brett Martin: Canadian Heroine or Not?” and “Response” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 5:2 (1992) 263-79 and 351-4. "Married Women's Property Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada” in Bettina Bradbury, ed. Canadian Family History: Selected Readings (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1992) 320-59.

“The Celebrated Abortion Trial of Dr. Emily Stowe, Toronto 1879” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 8 (1991) 159-87. Read on the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History website

“Women and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada” Canadian Legal History Working Paper Series (University of Manitoba, Faculty of Law, 1991)

“The Sayer Street Outrage: Gang Rape and Male Law in 19th-Century Toronto” Manitoba Law Journal 20 (1991) 46-68  

“Women Faculty at the University of Western Ontario: Reflections on the Employment Equity Award” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 4:1 (1990) 36-65

“Married Women's Property Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada” Law and History Review 6 (1988) 211-257  

“Nineteenth Century Judicial Attitudes Toward Child Custody, Rape and Prostitution” in Sheilah L. Martin and Kathleen E. Mahoney, eds., Equality and Judicial Neutrality (Toronto: Carswell, 1987) 271-281

“Pure Patriarchy: Nineteenth-Century Canadian Marriage” McGill Law Journal 31 (1986) 264-312

“The Tort of Seduction: Fathers and Daughters in Nineteenth-Century Canada” Dalhousie Law Journal 10 (1986) 45-80

“Nineteenth-Century Canadian Prostitution Law: Reflection of a Discriminatory Society” Social History/Histoire sociale 18:36 (1985) 387-423.

“To Open the Way for Others of My Sex: Clara Brett Martin's Career as Canada's First Woman Lawyer” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 1 (1985) 1-41.  

“Desperate Women and Compassionate Courts: Nineteenth-Century Infanticide in Canada” University of Toronto Law Journal 34 (1984) 447-478.  

“Canadian Prostitution Law 1839-1972” Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women Prostitution in Canada (Ottawa, 1984) 7-18.

“A Comparative Study of Canadian and American Rape Law” co-authored with Lorna Schoenroth, Canada-U.S. Law Journal 7 (1984) 173-213.

“Involuntary Motherhood: Abortion, Birth Control and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada” Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 3 (1983) 61-130. First published in the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice

“Nineteenth-Century Canadian Rape Law 1800-1892” in David H. Flaherty, ed. Essays in the History of Canadian Law v.2, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983) 200-247.

“Shifting Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Custody Law” in David H. Flaherty, ed. Essays in the History of Canadian Law v.1 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981) 212-248.

“Bell v. Flaming Steer Steak House Tavern: Canada's First Sexual Harassment Decision” University of Western Ontario Law Review 19 (1981) 141-151.

“The Fleck Strike: A Case Study in the Need for First Contract Arbitration” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 18 (1980) 495-553.

“Labour Unions and Anti-Combines Policy” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 14 (1976) 113-160.