Journal of Law & Equality

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The Journal of Law & Equality (JLE) aims to promote critical and informed debate on equality issues, with special emphasis on the Canadian context.

Articles in this Journal

Though the Depp v Heard media storm propelled it into the public’s view, the use of defamation lawsuits to punish individuals who choose to disclose their experiences of sexual violence has long been a prevalent form of civil litigation.   ...

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Accessing Gender Justice

This article examines contemporary access to justice discourse through the lens of gender justice, challenging the prevailing preference for technocratic interventions focused narrowly on court performance. It argues that such a limited perspective m...

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Frontiers of a Gender Equality Paradox: IHRL and Canada’s National Action Plan on Gender-Based Violence against Women

This article explores the experience and lessons from developing Canada’s first national action plan for gender-based violence (NAPGBV) as an example of the vicissitudes of feminist policy-making. The author specifies the processes, methodologies, an...

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Finding Equality: A Creative Take on Feminist Judgment Projects and the Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure

Feminist judgment projects have proliferated in recent years, with contributors in over twelve countries rewriting judgments to bring the relationship between law, gender, and equality to light. The requirements of feminist judgments vary between pro...

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“Pharmacare for All” except Women with Disabilities: Identifying Gaps in Canada’s Proposed National Pharmacare from an Intersectional Transnational Feminist Perspective

In 2019, following a year-long cross-Canada study, the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare released a report recommending the adoption of universal single-payer pharmacare. Two Liberal Party minority governments and a global...

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Contributions of the Inter-American Jurisprudence to the Protection of Women’s Human Rights

The Inter-American System of Human Rights (IASHR) has made substantial contributions to the advancement of gender equality and the elimination of gender violence and discrimination. It has positively impacted the lives of many women, girls, and LGBTQ...

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Women Talking: An Alchemy for Feminist Alternative Dispute Resolution

Over the past decade, a growing number of women who have experienced sexual violence have turned to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and have filed sexual harassment claims in human rights tribunals instead of pursuing sexual assault charges. Usi...

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Revisiting the Troubling Case of Olive Dickason: Insights from Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives

On 24 September 1992, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed Olive Patricia Dickason’s appeal, challenging her mandatory retirement at age sixty-five from the University of Alberta as age-based discrimination. After reading the facts of the case, we l...

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Speaking from (Dis)empowerment? The Difference between Reverse and Collateral Discrimination

Globally, we are seeing the rise of a trend where members of empowered groups claim being the victims of discrimination. These claims force us to ponder—who is (and should be) eligible for legal protection against discrimination? The debates they spa...