Publications
Petticoats & Prejudice: Woman and Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada 2nd ed. (Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press/Women's Press, 2015) pp. 466.
The Promise and Perils of Law: Lawyers in Canadian History (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2009), co-edited with W. Wesley Pue, pp. 305.
Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault Law in Canada, 1900-1975 (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2008), pp.445.
The Heiress versus the Establishment: Mrs. Campbell’s Campaign for Legal Justice (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004), co-authored with Nancy L. Backhouse, pp.321.
Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950 (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 1999), pp.485.
Challenging Times: The Women's Movement in Canada and the United States (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press, 1992), co-edited with David H. Flaherty, pp.335.
“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.
“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.
"'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.
"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.
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.
"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.
"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
"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.
Roberta Hamilton Setting the Agenda: Jean Royce and the Shaping of Queen’s University (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002) Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (2005) posted January 2005. http://www.csaa.ca/BookReview/ReviewsList.htm
Susan M. Sterett Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003) reviewed in Labour/Le Travail v.54 (Fall 2004) at 311-13.
Ellen Anderson Judging Bertha Wilson: Law As Large As Life (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001) reviewed in Labour/Le Travail v.51 (Spring 2003) 295-7.
Tamara Myers, Kate Boyer, Mary Anne Poutanen and Steven Watt eds., Power, Place and Identity: Historical Studies of Social and Legal Regulation in Quebec (McGill University, Montreal History Group, 1998) reviewed in Labour/Le Travail v.43 (Spring 1999) 231-3.
Louis A. Knafla and Susan W.S. Binnie, eds. Law, Society and the State: Essays in Modern Legal History reviewed in Law and History Review 16:1 (Spring 1998) 180-83.
Peggy Bristow, Dionne Brand, Linda Carty, Afua P. Cooper, Sylvia Hamilton, Adrienne Shadd (eds) "We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up": Essays in African Canadian Women's History (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1994) Gender & History 10:1 (April 1998) 169-71.
Diana E.H. Russell Against Pornography: The Evidence of Harm (Berkeley CA: Russell Publications, 1993) Canadian Journal of Law and Society 11:1 (Spring 1996) 277-80.
Jennie Abell and Elizabeth Sheehy Criminal Law & Procedure: Cases, Context, Critique (Ottawa: Captus Press, 1993) Canadian Journal of Law and Society 10:1 (Spring 1995) 213-16.
"Agnes Macphail and Feminism", a review of Terry Crowley Agnes Macphail and the Politics of Equality, Canadian Journal of Law and Society 7:1 (1992) 143-52.
Donald H. Akenson At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White, Queen's Law Journal 16:2 (1990) 313-20.
Louis Knafla, Law and Justice in a New Land, Ontario History LXXIX:4 (December 1987) 389-391.
"Review Essay: Marriage, Women, and Property: A Legal History of Enforced Dependence", review of Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America American Bar Foundation Research Journal (Spring-Summer 1987) 591-600.
Michael Grossberg, Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America, Atlantis 11:2 (Spring 1986) 200-202.
Kathleen Barry et al., International Feminism: Networking Against Female Sexual Slavery, Atlantis 11:2 (Spring 1986) 208-11.
Paul Weiler, Reconcilable Differences: New Direction in Canadian Labour Law University of Western Ontario Law Review 19 (1981) 343-348.
I. Books
Claire L’Heureux-Dubé: A Life Vancouver and Toronto: University of British Columbia Press, 2017) pp.740.Petticoats & Prejudice: Woman and Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada 2nd ed. (Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press/Women's Press, 2015) pp. 466.
- New edition of 1991 publication
- Winner of the 1992 Willard Hurst Prize in American Legal History
The Promise and Perils of Law: Lawyers in Canadian History (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2009), co-edited with W. Wesley Pue, pp. 305.
Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault Law in Canada, 1900-1975 (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2008), pp.445.
- Awarded the Canadian Law & Society Association Book Prize, 2009.
- Short listed for the Harold Adams Innis Prize, by the Aid to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP), presented each year to the best English-language ASPP-supported book in the social sciences, 2009.
- Awarded David W. Mundell Medal, 2011 for “distinguished contribution to law and literature.” - “It is intended to be a kind of Pulitzer Prize for legal writing” – Speech to Canadian Bar Association when medal was first awarded by Attorney General Ian Scott, 1986
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The Heiress versus the Establishment: Mrs. Campbell’s Campaign for Legal Justice (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004), co-authored with Nancy L. Backhouse, pp.321.
- Named by the Literary Review of Canada as one of the “Five to Outlast Us” titles, described as “books most likely to become classics of their kind” for the year 2004.
- Selected by The Beaver magazine as a “Book Club Title,” 2005.
- Short-list, Toronto Book Award, 2005.
Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950 (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 1999), pp.485.
- Awarded the 2002 Joseph Brant Award as the “best book in multicultural history published within the past three years” by the Ontario Historical Society.
Challenging Times: The Women's Movement in Canada and the United States (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press, 1992), co-edited with David H. Flaherty, pp.335.
- Awarded the 1993 "Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in the United States," Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States.
- Awarded the 1992 Willard Hurst Prize in American Legal History by the (U.S.) Law and Society Association. Sexual Harassment on the Job (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1981), co-authored with Leah Cohen, pp.196.
II. 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.
Read “Don’t You Bully Me...Justice I Want If There Is Justice to be Had: The Rape of Mary Ann Burton, London, Ontario, 1907" (Part 1)
Read “Don’t You Bully Me...Justice I Want If There Is Justice to be Had: The Rape of Mary Ann Burton, London, Ontario, 1907" (Part 2)
Read “Don’t You Bully Me...Justice I Want If There Is Justice to be Had: The Rape of Mary Ann Burton, London, Ontario, 1907" (Part 3)
“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.
Read "Reflections on Feminist Activism within Two Distinct Universities: Timing and Location for Transformational Activities.”“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.
Read “Attentat à la dignité du Parlement: Viol dans l’enceinte de la Chambre des communes, Ottawa 1929" (Part 1)
Read “Attentat à la dignité du Parlement: Viol dans l’enceinte de la Chambre des communes, Ottawa 1929" (Part 2)
“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.
Read "The Doctrine of Corroboration in Sexual Assault Trials in Early Twentieth Century Canada and Australia" - 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.”
“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.
Read "Skewering the Credibility of Women: A Reappraisal of Corroboration in Australian Legal History" - 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.
Read "'I Was Unable to Identify with Topsy': Carrie M. Best's Struggle Against Racial Segregation in Nova Scotia, 1942"- Go to the Atlantis website.
"Gretta Wong Grant: Canada's First Chinese-Canadian Female Lawyer" Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 15 (1996) 3-46.
Read "Gretta Wong Grant: Canada's First Chinese-Canadian Female Lawyer" - 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.
Read "An Historical Perspective, Reflections on the Western Employment Equity Award""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.
Read "The Chilly Climate for Faculty Women at Western: Postscript to the Backhouse Report" (Part 1)
Read "The Chilly Climate for Faculty Women at Western: Postscript to the Backhouse Report" (Part 2)
Read "The Chilly Climate for Faculty Women at Western: Postscript to the Backhouse Report" (Part 3)
"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.
Read "Epilogue: The Remarkable Response to the Release of the Chilly Climate Report" (Part 1) 
Read "Epilogue: The Remarkable Response to the Release of the Chilly Climate Report" (Part 2)
Read "Epilogue: The Remarkable Response to the Release of the Chilly Climate Report" (Part 3)
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.
Read "Racial Segregation in Canadian Legal History: Viola Desmond's Challenge, Nova Scotia, 1946" (Part 1)
Read "Racial Segregation in Canadian Legal History: Viola Desmond's Challenge, Nova Scotia, 1946" (Part 2)
Read "Racial Segregation in Canadian Legal History: Viola Desmond's Challenge, Nova Scotia, 1946" (Part 3)
Read "Racial Segregation in Canadian Legal History: Viola Desmond's Challenge, Nova Scotia, 1946" (Part 4)
"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 "Physicians, Abortions, and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Ontario" 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 "The Celebrated Abortion Trial of Dr. Emily Stowe, Toronto 1879" 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
Read "Nineteenth Century Judicial Attitudes Toward Child Custody, Rape and Prostitution""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.
Read "Pure Patriarchy: Nineteenth-Century Canadian Marriage"
Read “The Tort of Seduction: Fathers and Daughters in Nineteenth-Century Canada"
Read "Nineteenth-Century Canadian Prostitution Law: Reflection of a Discriminatory Society" (Part 1)
Read "Nineteenth-Century Canadian Prostitution Law: Reflection of a Discriminatory Society" (Part 2)
Read "Nineteenth-Century Canadian Prostitution Law: Reflection of a Discriminatory Society" (Part 3)
"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.
Read "A Comparative Study of Canadian and American Rape Law" (Part 1)
Read "A Comparative Study of Canadian and American Rape Law" (Part 2)
Read "A Comparative Study of Canadian and American Rape Law" (Part 3)
"Involuntary Motherhood: Abortion, Birth Control and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada" Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 3 (1983) 61-130
Read "Involuntary Motherhood: Abortion, Birth Control and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada" - 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.
Read "Bell v. Flaming Steer Steak House Tavern: Canada's First Sexual Harassment Decision""The Fleck Strike: A Case Study in the Need for First Contract Arbitration" Osgoode Hall Law Journal 18 (1980) 495-553.
Read "The Fleck Strike: A Case Study in the Need for First Contract Arbitration" (Part 1)
Read "The Fleck Strike: A Case Study in the Need for First Contract Arbitration" (Part 2)
Read "The Fleck Strike: A Case Study in the Need for First Contract Arbitration" (Part 3)
Read "The Fleck Strike: A Case Study in the Need for First Contract Arbitration" (Part 4)
Read "The Fleck Strike: A Case Study in the Need for First Contract Arbitration" (Part 5)
"Labour Unions and Anti-Combines Policy" Osgoode Hall Law Journal 14 (1976) 113-160.
Read "Labour Unions and Anti-Combines Policy" (Part 1)
Read "Labour Unions and Anti-Combines Policy" (Part 2)
Read "Labour Unions and Anti-Combines Policy" (Part 3)
Read "Labour Unions and Anti-Combines Policy" (Part 4)
III. Book Reviews
Jean McKenzie Leiper Bar Codes: Women in the Legal Profession (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006) Histoire Sociale/Social History 40:80 (November 2007) at 455-7.
Read "Bar Codes: Women in the Legal Profession - Jean McKenzie LeiperRoberta Hamilton Setting the Agenda: Jean Royce and the Shaping of Queen’s University (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002) Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (2005) posted January 2005. http://www.csaa.ca/BookReview/ReviewsList.htm
Susan M. Sterett Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003) reviewed in Labour/Le Travail v.54 (Fall 2004) at 311-13.
Ellen Anderson Judging Bertha Wilson: Law As Large As Life (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001) reviewed in Labour/Le Travail v.51 (Spring 2003) 295-7.
Tamara Myers, Kate Boyer, Mary Anne Poutanen and Steven Watt eds., Power, Place and Identity: Historical Studies of Social and Legal Regulation in Quebec (McGill University, Montreal History Group, 1998) reviewed in Labour/Le Travail v.43 (Spring 1999) 231-3.
Louis A. Knafla and Susan W.S. Binnie, eds. Law, Society and the State: Essays in Modern Legal History reviewed in Law and History Review 16:1 (Spring 1998) 180-83.
Peggy Bristow, Dionne Brand, Linda Carty, Afua P. Cooper, Sylvia Hamilton, Adrienne Shadd (eds) "We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up": Essays in African Canadian Women's History (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1994) Gender & History 10:1 (April 1998) 169-71.
Diana E.H. Russell Against Pornography: The Evidence of Harm (Berkeley CA: Russell Publications, 1993) Canadian Journal of Law and Society 11:1 (Spring 1996) 277-80.
Jennie Abell and Elizabeth Sheehy Criminal Law & Procedure: Cases, Context, Critique (Ottawa: Captus Press, 1993) Canadian Journal of Law and Society 10:1 (Spring 1995) 213-16.
"Agnes Macphail and Feminism", a review of Terry Crowley Agnes Macphail and the Politics of Equality, Canadian Journal of Law and Society 7:1 (1992) 143-52.
Donald H. Akenson At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White, Queen's Law Journal 16:2 (1990) 313-20.
Louis Knafla, Law and Justice in a New Land, Ontario History LXXIX:4 (December 1987) 389-391.
"Review Essay: Marriage, Women, and Property: A Legal History of Enforced Dependence", review of Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America American Bar Foundation Research Journal (Spring-Summer 1987) 591-600.
Michael Grossberg, Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America, Atlantis 11:2 (Spring 1986) 200-202.
Kathleen Barry et al., International Feminism: Networking Against Female Sexual Slavery, Atlantis 11:2 (Spring 1986) 208-11.
Paul Weiler, Reconcilable Differences: New Direction in Canadian Labour Law University of Western Ontario Law Review 19 (1981) 343-348.