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M.J. Mossman, Natasha Bakht, Vanessa Gruben, and Karen Pearlston
Captus Press,
ISBN
978-1-55322-387-0
(2019)
What constitutes a family? What role does the law play in different types of families? How have families and family law evolved in the recent years? Families and the Law, 3e deals with all these questions and more as it aims to address new challenges faced by families as well as current legal changes that affect family relationships. As with previous editions, the third edition of Families and the Law explores how the law continues to be relevant for families in different contexts. This edition has the added advantage of drawing from the insights of other "Family Law" instructors regarding many new developments. New to this edition: Social and economic data (that includes updated statistics about Canadian families from the 2016 Census) as well as family law themes (that includes the changing definition of "family") serve as the foundation of the book, which is further divided into 3 main sections: family formation, legal regulation of intact families and family dissolution. Specifically this edition contains, New material on New cases on
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To aid further discussion and learning, each chapter is accompanied by questions, problems and notes about additional cases. Moreover, each chapter includes bibliographic references for instructors and students that relates to different issues in the chapter. A class-tested, carefully-considered collection of cases and commentary, Families and the Law, 3e is a stimulating learning resource, perfect as a primary or secondary text for courses on family law, legal studies, and law and society programs, and an invaluable resource for all who study family law in Canada.
Preface to the Third Edition Families and Family Law: An Introduction to This Book Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Case Index
Mary Jane Mossman is Professor Emerita at Osgoode Hall Law School and was appointed a University Professor, a special honour at York University. She taught courses in Property Law, Family Law, and Gender Equality, and served as Director of the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies at Osgoode 2002-2010. Her publications focus on these subjects as well as legal aid and access to justice. In addition, her interest in the history of women lawyers resulted in publication of The First Women Lawyers: A Comparative Study of Gender, Law and the Legal Professions (Hart Publishing 2006); and her book about Ontario women lawyers in the early decades of the 20th century is forthcoming. She was a faculty member at the University of New South Wales and has been appointed a Visiting Professor at universities in Canada, the United States, Australia, Japan and France. She is a recipient of the Law Society Medal, an honorary doctorate from the Law Society, and the Award of Excellence of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers. In addition, she has been involved in supporting the work of community legal clinics for many decades. Natasha Bakht is an associate professor of law at the University of Ottawa where she has taught courses in criminal law, family law, children and the law and multiculturalism issues including women, religion and law. Prof. Bakht's legal scholarship explores the intersection between religious freedom and women's equality. Specific topics include religious arbitration in Canada, demeanour evidence and sexual assault, religious marriage and divorce. She was an active member of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) from 2005-2009, advancing women's rights through litigation. She has worked with the National Judicial Institute to educate Canadian judges on matters of religion and culture. She is the current English language Editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (CJWL). Her most recent writings on the rights of Muslim women who wear the full-face veil were cited by the Supreme Court in the case of R v NS, 2012 SCC 72. Vanessa Gruben is an associate professor and a member of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law, where she teaches health law and family law. Her research focuses on the legal and ethical aspects of assisted reproduction, including the constitutionality of Canada's Assisted Human Reproduction Act, the legal relationship between egg donors and their physicians, the constitutionality of anonymous sperm and egg donation, access to reproductive technologies, and the existing gaps in provincial law for families created through third-party reproduction. Her research also includes health law more generally as well as the protection of language rights in Canada. Gruben's work is funded by the Social Science and Humanities and Research Council, Canadian Blood Services, and the Foundation for Legal Research. She is a co-editor of the fifth edition of Canadian Health Law and Policy (LexisNexis Canada, 2017). Karen Pearlston is Professor of Law at the University of New Brunswick. Her research and teaching interests include English and Canadian legal history, history of women, gender, and the family, family law, tort law, feminist theory, reproductive justice, and gender and sexuality studies. Prof. Pearlston has a long history of social justice activism that informs her teaching and research. She works in the queer community and is an active member of Reproductive Justice New Brunswick. Her current research focus is lesbian legal history, and she has a continuing interest in family law in the 20th and 21st-centuries with particular attention to issues affecting marginalized people.
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