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Gillian Calder
B.A. (UBC) 1993, LL.B. (UBC) 1997, Diploma in University Teaching (UNB) 2002, LL.M. (Osgoode) 2003, called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1999.
Professor Calder joined the Faculty of Law in 2004 from the practice of Aboriginal law in Vancouver. Prior to that time, she taught at the University of New Brunswick (2001-2002) and was a clerk to the B.C. Supreme Court (1997-1998). Her current research interests include: the relationship between women, work and family; the provision of social benefits through Canadian law; feminist, constitutional and equality theories; and the intersection of performance and law. Professor Calder teaches Constitutional Law, Family Law and seminars on Advanced Charter and Advanced Family Law issues.
Gillian Calder
Associate Professor
Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
PO Box 1700, STN CSC
Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2
Canada
Email: Gillian Calder
Tel: 250-472-5247
Fax: 250-721-8146
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Courses
- The Constitutional Law Process - 100
- The Legal Process - 106
- Family Law - 322
- Advanced Family Law - 343
- Sexual Orientation and the Law - 357
- Civil Liberties and the Charter - 359
Biography
EDUCATION:
Magisteriate of Laws (2003)
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Diploma in University Teaching (2002)
University of New Brunswick
Bachelor of Laws (1997)
The University of British Columbia
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in History (1993)
The University of British Columbia
Climbing Gym Instructor (2006)
Thompson Rivers University
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Law Society of British Columbia
Called to the Bar: March 19, 1999
Non-practising member
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Faculty of Law - University of Victoria
Associate Professor
July 1, 2010 - present
Assistant Professor
July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2010
Mandell Pinder, Barristers and Solicitors
Litigation Associate, First Nations law practice
September 2002 - May 2004
Faculty of Law - University of New Brunswick
Assistant Professor
July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2002
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Barristers and Solicitors (formerly Russell & DuMoulin)
Associate in General Litigation September 1, 1999 - May 15, 2000
Articled Student: August 31, 1998 - August 31, 1999
British Columbia Law Clerk Program 1997-1998
Law clerk for the 1997-1998 term for: the Hon. Madam Justice Marion Allan; the Hon. Mr. Justice Donald Clancy; the Hon. Mr. Justice Francis Cole; the Hon. Madam Justice Kathleen Downs; the Hon. Mr. Justice S. James Shabbits; and the Hon. Mr. Justice Jon Sigurdson
Links
Publications
PUBLICATIONS:
Gillian Calder and Rebecca Johnson,“The Jane Doe Coffee Table Book of Rape – Reflections on Rebellious Writing and Teaching.” Elizabeth Sheehy and Jane Doe, eds., in Sexual Assault Law, Practice and Activism in a Post-Jane Doe Era (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2011), in press.
“Guantanamo: Using a Play-reading to Teach Law” (2010) 142 Canadian Theatre Review 44-49.
“Penguins and Polyamory: Using Law and Film to Explore the Essence of Marriage in Canadian Family Law” (2009) 21(1) Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 55-89. “Embodied Law: Theatre of the Oppressed in the Law School Classroom” (2009) 1 Masks: An Online Journal for Law and Theatre 1-35.
“‘Finally I Know Where I am Going to be From’: Culture, Context and Time in a Look Back at Racine v. Woods” in Kim Brooks, ed., Justice Bertha Wilson: One Woman’s Difference (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009) pp. 173-189.
Gillian Calder and Sharon Cowan, "Re-imagining Equality: Meaning and Movement" (2008) 29 Australian Feminist Law Journal 109-130.
Gillian Calder, “‘We the People of Constitutional Law 100 Y01’: Pedagogical Promise of a Classroom Constitution in First-Year Law” (2008) 2 Canadian Legal Education Annual Review 39-60.
Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey, Gillian Calder, Angela Cameron, Maneesha Deckha, Rebecca Johnson, Hester Lessard, Maureen Maloney, Margot Young, “Postcards from the Edge (of Empire)” (2008) 17(1) Social and Legal Studies 5-38.
Natasha Bakht, Kim Brooks, Gillian Calder, Jennifer Koshan, Sonia Lawrence, Carissima Mathen, Debra Parkes, “Counting Outsiders: A Critical Exploration of Outsider Course Enrolment in Canadian Legal Education” (2007) 45(4) Osgoode Hall Law Journal 667-732.
Gillian Calder and E. Llana Nakonechny, "Dickie v. Dickie: Smells Like Family Law" (2007) 23(2) Canadian Journal of Family Law 253-271.
Gillian Calder, "The Personal is Economic: Unearthing the Rhetoric of Choice in the Canadian Maternity and Parental Leave Benefit Debates" in Sharon Cowan and Rosemary Hunter eds., Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity (London: Cavendish Publishing Ltd., 2007) pp. 125-141.
Gillian Calder, "Federalism, Equality and Autonomy: Toward an Embedded Feminist Constitutional Agenda" (Book Review) (2006) 44(2) Alberta Law Review 465-475
Gillian Calder, "A Pregnant Pause: Federalism, Equality and the Maternity and Parental Leave Debate in Canada" (Case Comment) (2006) 14(1) Feminist Legal Studies 99-118.
Gillian Calder, "Families and the Law in Canada: Cases and Commentary by Mary Jane Mossman" (Book Review) (2005) 22(1) Canadian Journal of Family Law 101-116.
Gillian Calder, "SCC to rule on parental leave" (2005) 25(19) The Lawyers Weekly 10, 16
Gillian Calder, "Recent Changes to the Maternity and Parental Leave Benefits Regime as a Case Study: The Impact of Globalization on Social Programs in Canada" (2003) 15(2) Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, pp. 342-366.
Gillian Calder, The Impact of Globalization on Social Programs in Canada: Gender, Social Reproduction, and Benefits for Maternity and Parental Leave (Ottawa: National Association of Women and the Law, 2003).
Gillian Calder, "Rethinking the Treatment of Federally Sentenced Women in a Substantive Equality Context." Paper submitted to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, February 5, 2003.
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Gillian Calder, Gender, Social Reproduction and the Canadian Welfare State: Assessing the Recent Changes to the Maternity and Parental Leave Benefits Regime (2002) LL.M. thesis, York University.
Helen H. Low and Gillian M. Calder, "Rethinking Status Under the Wills Variation Act" in Phantom Menace: Threatening Issues in Estate Litigation (Vancouver: The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, 1999).
Shelagh Day and Gillian Calder, "Human Rights" in Annual Review of Law & Practice (Vancouver: The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, 1999) pp. 269-291.
Lori Price and Gillian Calder, "Everything you Always Wanted to Know (or Should Know) about Investigating Harassment Complaints: Avoiding Common Procedural Pitfalls" in C.A.P.S.L.E. 1999 (Chateauguay: Canadian association for the Practical Study of Law in Education, 1999).
Gillian Calder, "A Local Look at the Platform for Action : Beyond Beijing" (1996) 12(1) International Insights 35-49.
"Human Rights of Women" in Take Action for Equality, Development and Peace: A Canadian Follow-up Guide to Beijing '95 (Ottawa: C.R.I.A.W., 1996), collaborative chapter.
Gillian Calder, "Traffic: The Jam in the Fridge" (1974).
Research
Polygamy’s Wrongs?: The Social Family in the Culture of Rights, edited collection for UBC Press with Lori Beaman, SSHRC funded workshop at UVic, October 1-3, 2009.
“Performance, Pedagogy and the Law: Theatre of the Oppressed in the Law School Classroom.” Beyond Text in Legal Education (Ashgate: 2011), ed. Zenon Bankowski, Paul Maharg and Maksymilian Del Mar. “In-site: Right Answer, Wrong Question.” For Constitutional Forum, January 2011.
“Playing Games with Law.” Beyond Text in Legal Education (Ashgate: 2011), ed. Zenon Bankowski, Paul Maharg and Maksymilian Del Mar. With Sharon Cowan and Suzanne Bouclin.
Book review, Muslim Marriage in Western Courts: Lost in Transplantation. For the Review of Constitutional Studies.
“Ethics and Professionalism in Canada: Empathy, Equality and Imagination.” Project in progress, presented at Socio-Feminist Legal Workshop, Barbados, June 2010; FMC Summer Fellowship 2011.
“‘To the Exclusion of All Others’: Polygamy, Monogamy and the Legal Family in Canada.” Law Foundation of B.C. funded project.
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