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Launched
in 1985, the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/Revue Femmes
et Droit is the only Canadian periodical devoted entirely to the
publication and dissemination of multi-disciplinary scholarship
in the expanding field of women's legal studies. The CJWL is incorporated
as a non-profit organization with charitable status. The CJWL's
readership includes lawyers, judges, law students, academics,
government officials and others interested in women's equality.
The CJWL's mandate is to provide an outlet for those wishing to
explore the impact of law on women's social, economic and legal
status, and on the general conditions of their lives. |
The Journal
promotes the expansion of women's legal scholarship into new areas
of research and study, and it aims to increase the volume and improve
the accessibility of legal scholarship by Canadian women, on specifically
Canadian topics. Finally, the CJWL seeks to provide an important tool
for activists, academics and others engaged in research and law reform
efforts on behalf of women.
The CJWL's
content and editorial policy reflect the objectives outlined above.
Editorial criteria are designed and applied to ensure a balance in
terms of type of contributions (articles, commentaries, research notes,
case comments and book reviews), discipline, subject matter, language,
jurisdiction, and perspective.
The Journal has just recently published the first six decisions of
the Women's Court of Canada (WCC). The WCC is an innovative project
bringing together academics, activists, and litigators in order to
rewrite the Canadian Charter equality jurisprudence. Taking inspiration
from Oscar Wilde, who once said "the only duty we owe to history
is to rewrite it", the WCC operates as a virtual court, and 'reconsiders'
leading equality decisions. The WCC renders alternative decisions
as a means of articulating fresh conceptions of substantive equality.
Into the future the Journal will publish new decisions of the Women's
Court as they are released.
Recently
published articles have examined issues of religious arbitration,
sentencing circles and domestic violence, reparations as narrative
resistance, domestic violence legislation, and Queer theory approaches
to international law. Recent issues have focused on equality, poverty,
racism, and social policy. Much of the material published has been
ground-breaking in subject matter, perspective, and scope.
Through
its editorial policies and expanding domestic and international reputation,
the CJWL has been instrumental in fostering the growth and improving
the accessibility of feminist legal scholarship in Canada.
At its
inception, the English side of the CJWL was located at the University
of Windsor, with Kathleen Lahey as English Co-Editor and at the University
of Laval, with Edith Deleury as French Co-Editor. The English side
subsequently moved to Queen's University with Kathleen Lahey.
The next
move came in 1989, when both language editorships relocated to the
Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, where editorial duties
were shared with academics from the Department of Law at Carleton
University.
In September
1996, the English language editorial component of the CJWL moved to
British Columbia. The French language editorial component and the
Journal's national and production office remain in Ottawa.
In June
2000, the University of Toronto took over the English language editorial
operation of the Journal, while the French language editorship moved
to Laval University.
Since 2003 Osgoode Hall Law School has been the home of the English
language component, while Laval University continues to host the French
language editorship.
CJWL
is published two times per year by the Canadian Journal of Women and
the Law with the generous support of the Social Science and Humanities
Research Council of Canada and the Department of Canadian Heritage
through the Publications Assistance Program.
ISSN:
0832-8781
ISSN 1911-0235 (Online)
Editors
Co-editorship of the CJWL is currently shared by Associate Professor
Janet Mosher from the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University (English
language), and by Professor Louise Langevin from the Faculty of Law,
Laval University (French language).
Editorial
Address
Janet
Mosher
Editors, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
Osgoode Hall Law School
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
M3J 1P3
fax:(416)736-5736
e-mail: cjwl@osgoode.yorku.ca
Louise
Langevin
Faculty of Law
Laval University
Louise.Langevin@fd.ulaval.ca
Indexing
Academic
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Index to Canadian Legal Periodical Literature
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Canadian Periodical Index
Canadian Reference Centre
Index to Legal Periodicals
Legal Collection
SCOPUS
Women Studies Abstract
The Canadian Feminist Periodical Index
Studies on Women Abstracts
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
