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Books
Martha Shaffer (ed.), Contemporary Issues in Family Law: Engaging in the Legacy of James G. McLeod (Toronto: Thomson Carswell, 2007).
Articles
“Sex, Lies and HIV: Mabior and the Concept of Sexual Fraud” in Isabel Grant, Martha Shaffer and Alison Symington, Focus Feature -- R v Mabior And R v DC: Sex, HIV And Non-Disclosure, Take Two” (2013) 63 UTLJ 467-474.
“The Impact of the Charter on the Law of Sexual Assault: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’” (2012) 57 Supreme Court LR (2d) 337.
"Grandparent Access: A Case Law Update" (2011) 30 C.F.L.Q. 95-127.
"Developments in Family Law: The 2005-2007 Terms" 2007, 38 S.C.L.R. (2d) 405-436 (with Nicholas Bala). (download paper)
"Joint Custody, Parental Conflict and Children's Adjustment to Divorce: What the Social Science Literature Does and Does Not Tell Us" (2007) 26 C.F.L.Q 285-313.
"Joint Custody Since Kaplanis and Ladisa: A Review ofRecent Case Law" in Martha Shaffer (ed.), Contemporary Issues in Family Law: Engaging in the Legacy of James G. McLeod (Toronto: Thomson Carswell, 2007) at 431-471. Also published as "Joint Custody Since Kaplanis and Ladisa: A Review of Recent Case Law" (2007) 26 C.F.L.Q. 315-355.
"Experiments in Child Custody Reform" in The Law Society of Upper Canada, Special Lectures 2006: Family Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2007)
"Developments in Family Law: The 2004-2005 Term" (2005) 30 S.C.L.R. 359 (download paper)
"Family Law and Older Canadians" in Anne Soden, ed., Advising the Older Client (Markham, Ont: LexisNexis Canada, 2005) (with Nick Bala and Lucinda Fisher).
"Developments in Family Law: The 2003-2004 Term" (2004) 26 S.C.L.R. 407 (download paper)
"Domestic Contracts, Part II: The Supreme Court's Decision in Hartshorne v. Hartshorne" (2004) 20 C.J.F.L. 261.
"The Impact of Wife Abuse on Child Custody and Access Determinations" (2004) 22 C.F.L.Q. 83.
"To Grandmother's House We Go? An Examination of Grandparent Access" (2004) 21 C.F.L.Q. 437.
"The Role of Family Courts in Domestic Violence: The Canadian Experience" in Peter Jaffe, Linda Baker & Alison Cunningham, eds., Protecting Children from Domestic Violence: Strategies for Community Intervention (New Yark: The Guilford Press, 2004) 171-187 (with Nick Bala).
"Contracting Spousal Support: Thinking Through Miglin" (2003) 21 C.F.L.Q. 49 (with Carol Rogerson). (download paper)
"Wife Abuse, Child Custody and Access in Canada" (2003) 3 Journal of Emotional Abuse 253 (with Nick Bala); also published in Robert Geffner, Robyn Spurling Igelman & Jennifer Zellner, eds., The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Children (Binghamton, N.Y: The Haworth Maltreatment and Trauma Press, 2003).
"Effectiveness of Anti-Terrorism Legislation: Does Bill C-36 Give Us What We Need?" in Ronald J. Daniels, Patrick Macklem and Kent Roach, eds, The Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001) 195.
"Third Party Access" in James McLeod, Child Custody Law and Practice (Carswell) Chapter 26.
"Coerced into Crime: Battered Women and the Defence of Duress" (1999) 4 Can.Crim. L.R. 271.
"Canada's New Child Support Guidelines: Do They Fulfill Canada's International Law Obligations to Children?" forthcoming, in Merali and Oosterveld eds., Reaching Beyond Words: Giving Meaning to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2001)
"Separation Agreements Post-Moge, Willick and L. G. v. G.B.: A New Trilogy?" (1999) 16 Can. 1. Fam. L. 51 (co-authored with Daniel Melamed).
"Scrutinizing Duress: The Constitutional Validity of s. 17 of the Criminal Code" (1997) 40 C.L.Q. 444.(download paper)
"The Battered Woman Syndrome Revisited: Some Complicating Thoughts Five Years After R. v. Lavallee" (1997) 47 U.T.L.J. 1.
"R. v. Daviault: A Principled Approach to Drunkenness ar a Lapse of Common Sense?" (1996) 3 Rev. of Const. Studies 311
"Criminal Responsibility and the Charter: The Case of R. v. Daviault" in Jamie Cameron, ed., The Charter's Impact on the Criminal Justice System (Carswell, 1996) at 313.
"Criminal Responses to Hate Motivated Violence: Is Bill C-41 Tough Enough?" (1995) 41 McGill L.J. 199 (download paper)
"Foetal Rights and the Regulation of Abortion" (1994) 39(1) McGill L. R. 58. (download paper)
"Legal Aspects of Abortion in Canada" in D. Roy et al., eds., Medicine, Ethics, and the Law -Canadian and Polish Perspectives (Montreal: Center for Bioethics, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, 1991).
"R. v. Lavallee - A Review Essay" (1990) 22 Ottawa L. Rev. 607.
"Divorce Mediation - A Feminist Perspective" (1988) 46 U. T. Fac. L. R. 162. (download paper)
Comments
"R. v. Seaboyer and Gayme: A Case Comment" (1992) 5 Can. J. Women and the Law 202. (download paper)
"R. v. Sullivan and Lemay: A Case Comment" (1991) 36 McGill L.J. 1370.
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