Angela Livingstone JD Candidate 2019 Being a mum has always been hard, but perhaps more so in a time when everyone can openly judge from so many angles. We are regularly judged on how we birth our children, how they sleep and eat, the clothes they wear, and how we let them play. Significantly, weContinue reading “Mothers in Law*”
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Makeovers and Mishaps: Some thoughts on Bill C-78
Angela Livingstone JD Candidate 2019 Almost 33 years later and yet somehow the Divorce Act of 1986 still does not contemplate the particulars of family breakdown, complicated as it is by factors such as domestic violence, an unequal distribution of power, and intersecting relationships of care. Absent legislative guidance, Canadian courts have inserted their ownContinue reading “Makeovers and Mishaps: Some thoughts on Bill C-78”
Welcome back!
Believe it or not, it is September again. First, let me take this opportunity to welcome the new 1Ls. I hope orientation and the first week or two of classes have left you more optimistic and less terrified. Oh, you should definitely be a little terrified. But hopefully you are energized by the fact thatContinue reading “Welcome back!”
The Second Voice of “The Sisterhood”
Angela Livingstone JD Candidate, 2019 “If a unitary “women’s experience” or “feminism” must be distilled, feminists must ignore many women’s voices…In feminist legal theory, the pull of the second voice, the voice of abstract categorization, is still powerfully strong.” – Angela Harris, 1990[1] Feminists continue to face external and internal criticism. To those outside, weContinue reading “The Second Voice of “The Sisterhood””
University of Ottawa Association of Women and the Law 