Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-4rdpn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-13T05:12:56.821Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Constance Backhouse Claire L’Heureux-Dubé. A Life. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2017. 769 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2019

Rosemary Cairns Way
Rosemary Cairns Way*
Affiliation:
Full Professor, Faculty of Law University of OttawaRosemary.CairnsWay@uOttawa.ca
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Reviews / Compte rendus
Information
Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , April 2019 , pp. 165 - 168
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association / Association Canadienne Droit et Société 2019 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 See, for example: Constance Backhouse, Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault Law in Canada, 1900–1975, Irwin Law, Toronto: 2008; Colour Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900–1950, University of Toronto Press, Toronto: 1999; Petticoats & Prejudice: Women and Law in Nineteenth Century Canada, Women’s Press, Toronto: 1991.

2 R v Ewanchuk, [1999] 1 SCR 330.

3 R v Seaboyer, [1991] 2 SCR 577, Moge v Moge, [1992] 3 SCR 813, Canada (Attorney General) v Mossop, [1993] 1 SCR 554, Symes v Canada, [1993] 4 SCR 695, Reference re Secession of Quebec, [1998] 2 SCR 217, Baker v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), [199] 2 SCR 817.

4 Syndicat Northcrest v Amselem, [2004] SCC 47.

5 Bill 60, National Assembly of Quebec, “Charter affirming the values of state secularism and of religious neutrality and of equality between men and women, and providing a framework for accommodation requests” (2013).

6 RBG, a documentary was released on May 4, 2018. It is produced by Betsy West and Julie Cohen and described as an intimate portrait of an unlikely rock star: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With unprecedented access, the filmmakers explore how her early legal battles changed the world for women. As of this writing it has brought in almost 4 million USD.

7 See for example, Sean Fine, “How Beverley McLachlin found her bliss, Where she came from and what she leaves behind,” The Globe and Mail, January 12, 2018, on-line at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/beverley-mclachlin-profile/article37588525/