14 articles in this issue
Shanthi Senthe, Sujith Xavier
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University’s Challenging Conventions! Speaker Series organized Re-Igniting Critical Race: A Symposium on Contemporary Accounts of Racialization in Canada on November 2, 2012. The symposium sought to explore critical race the... see more
Patricia J Williams
Reflection Piece
Adrian A Smith
Considerable attention has been directed at the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2011 Fraser decision regarding the constitutional right to freedom of association of agricultural workers in Ontario. While these interventions rightly tend to chastise the Court’s... see more
Amar Bhatia
This article examines issues of transnational migration in the settler-colonial context of Canada. First, I review some of the recent debates about foregrounding Indigeneity and decolonization in anti-racist thought and work, especially in relation to cr... see more
Faisal Bhabha
In her evocative masterpiece, The Alchemy of Race and Rights, published in 1991, Patricia Williams captured a moment in American legal thought that marked a turning point in expressions about race and power, and the implications for social equality. It co... see more
Nasser Rego
Irina Ceric
Sonia Lawrence
Colleen Sheppard
One of the greatest challenges of anti-discrimination law is institutionalized inequality. Recognized in law as systemic discrimination, it is embedded in processes, practices, norms, and relationships that reproduce and accentuate inequality. Legal rec... see more
David Wiseman
The process for licensing new lawyers in Ontario is in the midst of significant change following the Law Society of Upper Canada’s approval of a recommendation by it’s Articling Task Force to introduce of a 3-year pilot project that will provide a program... see more
Michael McCrossan
Over the course of the past twenty years, the Supreme Court of Canada’s discourse concerning ‘reconciliation’ has shifted from moderating federal power to reconciling the preceding presence of Aboriginal people with an established sovereign (Crown) presen... see more
Jane Bailey, Jacquelyn Burkell, Graham Reynolds
In this paper, the authors examine developments in the Canadian access to justice dialogue from Macdonald’s seminal 2005 analysis to the recent reports of the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters [NAC]. They draw on... see more
Samuel Singer
This article explores the treatment of trans medical expenses under American and Canadian tax laws. In both tax systems, medical expenses are deemed worthy of tax relief, while many cosmetic procedures are excluded. This article argues that tax administra... see more
Jennifer A Leitch
Access to Justice remains one of the most contested issues on the law-and-society agenda. There has been continuing conceptual debate over its meaning, its objectives, and its success. Of late, attention has turned to efforts to measure the impact and e... see more