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Books

Law's Relations: A Relational Theory of Self, Autonomy, and Law (Oxford University Press, 2012).

  • C.B. Macpherson Prize for the best book in political theory, awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association. (Paperback released 2013.)

Judgment, Imagination and Politics: Themes from Kant and Arendt (co-edited with Ronald Beiner) (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001).

Private Property and the Limits of American Constitutionalism: The Madisonian Framework and its Legacy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).
 

Articles and Book Chapters

“Relations of Freedom and Law’s Relations,” Politics and Gender, June 2012, Vol. 8 (2) pp. 231-238.

"Receptivity and Judgment" (2011) Ethics  & Global Politics, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2011, 231-254.

"Rethinking constitutionalism through the lens of the gendered division of household labour," in Feminist Constitutionalism: Global Perspectives, Beverley Baines, Daphne Barak-Erez and Tsvi Kahana, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

"The Reciprocal Relation of Judgement and Autonomy: Walking in another's shoes and which shoes to walk in," in Being Relational: Reflections on relational theory and health law and policy, Jocelyn Downie and Jennifer Llewellyn, eds. (University of British Columbia Press, 2011).

"Clashes of Principle and the Possibility of Dialogue: A Case Study of Same-Sex Marriage and the United Church of Canada," co-authored with Roger Hutchison, for Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada, Richard Moon, ed., pp. 41-64 (University of British Columbia Press, 2008).

"Reconceiving Rights and Constitutionalism," Journal of Human Rights, July, 2008. Vol. 7, No. 2 pp. 139-173.

"Legislative Judgment and the Enlarged Mentality: Taking Religious Perspectives" in Richard Bauman & Tsvi Kahana, eds., The Least Examined Branch: The Role of Legislatures in the Constitutional State (Cambridge University Press, 2006) 93.

"Are Persons Property? Legal Debates About Property and Personality" Review essay, (2004) 24 Adelaide Law Review 123.

"Law, Judgment and Relational Autonomy" in Beiner & Nedelsky, eds., Judgment, Imagination and Politics: Themes from Kant and Arendt (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001) 103.

"Communities of Judgment and Human Rights" (2000) 1 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 245.

"A Relational Approach to Citizenship" (in Arabic) in Suad Joseph, Jean Makdisi & Najla Hamadeh, eds., Gender and Citizenship in Lebanon (Beruit: Dar al Jadid, 2000).

"A Relational Approach to Citizenship" in Ronald Beiner & Wayne Norman, eds., Canadian Political Philosophy: Contemporary Reflections (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2000) 131.

"Dilemmas of Passion, Privilege and Isolation: Reflections on Mothering in a White, Middle Class Nuclear Family" in Julia Hanigsberg & Sara Ruddick, eds., Mother Troubles: Rethinking Contemporary Maternal Dilemmas (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999).

"Embodied Diversity: Challenges to Law" (1997) 42 McGill Law Journal 91. 

Partially reprinted in Brettel Dawson, eds., Women, Law and Social Change (North York, Ontario: Captus Press, 1998)

"Should Property Be Constitutionalized? A Relational and Comparative Approach" in G.E. van Maanen & A.J. van der Walt, eds., Property on the Threshold of the 21st Century (Antwerp, Netherlands: Maklu, Blackstone, Nomos, Jurdik and Samhaelle, Schulthess, 1996) 417.

"Meditations on Embodied Autonomy" (1995) 2 Graven Images 159.

"Violence Against Women: Challenges to the Liberal State and Relational Feminism" in Ian Shapiro & Russell Hardin, eds., Political Order NOMOS XXXVIII (New York: New York University Press, 1995).

Reprinted in Tetsuji Yamanoto, ed., Philosophical Designs for a Socio-Cultural Transformation: Beyond Violence and the Modern Era (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Culturelles: Co-Published by Roman and Littlefield, 1999).

"The Puzzle and Demands of Modern Constitutionalism" (1994) 105 Ethics 500.

"Property in Potential Life? A Relational Approach to Choosing Legal Categories" (1993) IV Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 343.

"Reconceiving Rights as Relationship" (1993) 1 Review of Constitutional Studies/Revue d'etudes constitutional 1.

Also published in Jonathan Hart and Richard W. Bauman, eds., Explorations in Difference: Law, Culture and Politics (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996) 67.

"The Practical Possibilities of Feminist Theory" (1993) 87 Northwestern University Law Review 1286.

"Constitutional Dialogue" (with Craig Scott) in Joel Bakan & David Schneiderman, eds., Social Justice and the Constitution (Carleton University Press, 1992) 59.

"The Challenges of Multiplicity" (1991) 89 Michigan Law Review 1591.

Edited version reprinted in Katherine T. Bartlett, ed., Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary (Little, Brown, 1993).

"Democracy, Justice, and the Multiplicity of Voices: Alternatives to the Federalist Vision" (1990) 84 Northwestern University Law Review 232.

"Law, Boundaries, and the Bounded Self" (Spring, 1990) 30 Representations 162.

Edited version reprinted in Richard H. Chused, ed., A Property Anthology (Anderson Publishing, 1993).

"Reconceiving Autonomy" (1989) 1 The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 7.

Also published in Allan C. Hutchinson & Leslie J.M. Green, eds., Law and the Community: The End of Individualism? (Toronto: Carswell, 1989) 219.
Reprinted in Christine Koggel, ed., Moral Issues in Global Perspective (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1999).
Reprinted in Sonderbulletin: Zentrum fur interdisziplinare Frauenforshung, Berlin, 1996.
Edited version reprinted in Katherine T. Bartlett, ed., Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary (Little, Brown, 1993).

"The Protection of Property in the Origins and Development of the American Constitution" in Peter J. Albert, Herman Belz and Ronald Hoffman, eds., To Form a More Perfect Union: The Critical Ideas of the Constitution (University Press of Virgina, 1992) 38.

"Displacing the Common Law: The Emergence of Administrative Control of Water Resources" in Philip Girard & James Phillips, eds., Essays in the History of Canadian law Vol. III, The Nova Scotia Experience (University of Toronto Press, 1990) 326.

"'Economic Liberties' and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism: The Federalist Perspective" in Sarah Thurow, ed., To Secure the Blessings of Liberty: First Principles of the Constitution (University Press of America, 1988) 220.

"American Constitutionalism and the Paradox of Private Property" in J. Elster & R. Slagstad eds., Constitutionalism and Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) 241.

"Interest and Ideology in the Transformation of American Legal History: Reflections on Horwitz's 'Progressive Legal History'" (1984) 63 Oregon Law Review 689.

"Confining Democratic Politics: Federalists, Anti-Federalists and the Constitution" Review Essay, (1982) 96 Harvard Law Review 340.

"Judicial Conservatism in an Age of Innovation: Comparative Perspectives on Canadian Nuisance Law, 1880-1930" in David Flaherty, ed., Essays in Canadian Legal History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981) 281.

"Law Reporting in the Atlantic Provinces: Its Origin and Development" published by the Canadian Legal Information Council, 1980.

"In a Rebellious Sprit" Review Essay, (1979) 54 New York University Law Review.

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