Yukiko Kobayashi Lui

Yukiko, wearing a grey sweater, smiles in a photograph taken in the Jackman Law Building
SJD Candidate
Thesis title:
Dependence and redistribution in family life/law
Office in Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Toronto, M5S 2C5
Email: y.kobayashilui@mail.utoronto.ca

I am a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Law with a collaborative specialization in sexual diversity studies at the Mark S. Bonham Centre. I also teach at the Women and Gender Studies Institute.

My research interests are in family law, poverty law, feminisms, and critical legal theories. My doctoral project is about the law and politics of relationship recognition in the context of Ontario's welfare state. I am interested in how law and social assistance policy constitute and reproduce the borders of 'the family', paying attention to how material conditions affect the choices people have about their relational lives and how they do socially reproductive work for themselves and others.

Prior to commencing my doctoral studies, I worked in the non-profit sector and in publishing. 

Education
LLM (Distinction), The University of Hong Kong
BA (Hons) in Law, University of Cambridge
Awards and Distinctions
Mary H. Beatty Fellowship (2024-2025)
Centre for Ethics Doctoral Fellowship (Returning) (2024-2025)
David Rayside Graduate Students Award (2024)
Centre for Ethics Doctoral Fellowship (2023-2024)
Mary H. Beatty Fellowship (2023-2024)
Graduate Fellowship in Women's Rights (2022-2024)
Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence (2015-2018)
Other information

Co-organizer, Feminist Legal Theory and the Family conference, hosted at the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School (May 2024)

Organizing committee, Sex Salon speaker series, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies (2023-2024)

Co-organizer, Toronto Law and Political Economy Reading Group (Spring 2023)

Organizer, SJD works-in-progress group (Fall 2022-Fall 2024)

Research Interests
Administrative Law
Comparative Law
Critical Legal Theory
Family Law
Feminist Analysis of Law
Labour Law
Political Philosophy and Theory
Sexuality and the Law
Supervisor
Brenda Cossman
Committee Members
Kerry Rittich
Linda White (Department of Political Science)

COVID-19 and the Law of Work in 2021

COVID-19 and the Law of Work in 2021

Thursday, March 11, 2021
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM.

Location: Zoom (please register via the link below)

You're invited to join the Labour and Employment Law Society's at the upcoming panel to discuss where Labour and Employment Law is in 2021 on March 11th, 2021 at 12:30p.m. via Zoom (see registration link below).  

U of T Law Union presents: Workplace democracy, migrant labour, and movement lawyering

University of Toronto Law Union

presents

Workplace democracy, migrant labour, and movement lawyering

March 12, 2021
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Registration required: 

LELs Visits Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP (Virtual Tour)

Labour and Employment Law Society (LELs)
Visits Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP
(Virtual Tour)

Thursday, November 12, 2020
12:45-2:00pm

Location: Online/Zoom

Join the Labour and Employment Law Society for a virtual firm visit to Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP, one of Canada's largest and highest-ranked law firms practicing exclusively management-side labour and employment law. This is a virtual event.

LELs Visits Sherrard Kuzz LLP (Virtual Tour)

Labour and Employment Law Society (LELs)
Visits Sherrard Kuzz LLP
(Virtual Tour)

Tuesday, November 10, 2020,
12:30-1:30pm

Location: Online/Zoom 

Join the Labour and Employment Law Society for a virtual firm visit to Sherrard Kuzz LLP,  one of Canada's leading employment and labour firms exclusively representing the interests of employers. This is a virtual event.

U of T legal startup adds employment law tool to its AI-powered product portfolio

Saturday, December 9, 2017

Prof. Benjamin Alarie
Professor Benjamin Alarie is the CEO of Blue J Legal, which uses AI to predict the outcome of tax and employment law cases (photo by Lisa Sakulensky)

By Chris Sorensen

Special issue of U of T Law Journal on Prof. Patrick Macklem's "The Sovereignty of Human Rights"

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

The new issue of the The University of Toronto Law Journal presents a collection of papers that were first given at a symposium on Prof. Patrick Macklem’s book, The Sovereignty of Human Rights. The symposium includes a response by the author to the revised papers and is introduced by Prof. Karen Knop, who sets Macklem’s book and the different papers in the context of his work as a whole.

Labour Law Research Network conference

The third LLRN conference will be held in Toronto on June 25-27, 2017. The University of Toronto Faculty of Law will host the conference, organized in conjunction with Lancaster House Publishing, and made possible by the support of the Canadian and international institutions.

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