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I can never be a judge
Winnipeg Free Press, November 29, 2014Online
URL: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/i-can-never-be-a-judge-284204641.html
Two ships passed in broad daylight this week, one bringing an accused to the shores of justice, one carrying an honourable madam to the highest court in the land. I am now more uncertain that the ship of justice and the ship of law share a common port. One thing I now know for certain is that I can never be a judge...
A principled limit to assisted reproduction and parental age
Toronto Star, May 6, 2013Online
Over the last two weeks, I have come across my 3-year-old son Jacob, tearful and with quavering lip. He has been happily lost in a puzzle or game until he apprehends my absence and finds himself, bereft. “What’s wrong?” I ask. “I was all alone,” he responds...
Unthinkable Thoughts: Academic Freedom and the One-State Model for Israel and Palestine
by Susan G. Drummond
UBC Press
Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities (Law and Society)
by Susan G. Drummond
UBC Press
Incorporating the Familiar: An Investigation into Legal Sensibilities in Nunavik
by Susan G. Drummond
McGill-Queens University Press
Polygam's Inscrutable Criminal Mischief
Published by Osgoode Hall Law Journal
2009 The polygamy charges Laid in the settlement of Bountiful, British Columbia, in January 2009, give rise to questions about the particular mischief of the polygamy offence in section 293 of Canada's Criminal Code. This article argues that, as a result of developments within ...
URL: http://heinonlinebackup.com/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/ohlj47§ion=18
Polygamy's Inscrutable Secular Mischief
Published by CLPE Research Paper
2009 This paper attempts to decipher the specific mischief in the offense of polygamy in-and-of-itself. It examines whether the offense coincides any longer with the contemporary substratum of values about the family and sexuality that have emerged over the last forty ...
URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1346394
Judicial Notice: The Very Texture of Legal Peasoning
Published by Canadian Journal of Law and Society
2000 Thayer, one of the first systematic writers on the subject, places the subject of judicial notice at the very beginning of his treatise on evidence as the first chapter. Not only does it occupy this first principles place in his doctrine, its scope is much wider than the law of evidence, ...
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Follow a Rule/Follow a Rhythm: Sharing Practice in a Gitano Quarter in Jerez, Andalucia
Published by Cardozo Law Review
1998 This Article arises from independent ethnographic field research we conducted over the course of six months in 1996 with the Gitanos (Spanish Gypsies) of the Andalucian city of Jerez de la Frontera. Although our research interests were divergent-Jean-Marc was ...
URL: http://heinonlinebackup.com/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/cdozo20§ion=77
Eloquent (In) action: Enforcement and Prosecutorial Restraint in the Transnational Trade in Human Eggs As Deep Ambivalence about the Law
Published by Canadian Journal of Women and The Law
2014 This article approaches a piece of Canadian criminal legislation by analyzing the law's extraterritorial effect and putting the law's practical import within a mobile and global context-and from that perspective concludes that the domestic law is practically and morally ...
URL: http://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cjwl.26.2.02
Biography
Professor Susan Drummond joined Osgoode’s faculty in 1999, and specializes in the areas of legal anthropology, comparative law, civil law, family law, and wills and estates. She was the first student in Canada to graduate with both a civil and common law degree as well as a Master’s in Social Work. She has a doctorate in law from McGill University. Her BA in philosophy and her postgraduate Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies from the Université d’Aix-Marseille, specializing in legal theory and legal anthropology, make her an interdisciplinary scholar. Beyond her publications in scholarly journals, she has published three books. Incorporating the Familiar: An Investigation into Legal Sensibilities in Nunavik is based on fieldwork on the interactions between state and non-state criminal law sensibilities in Inuit communities in northern Quebec. Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities is based on field work on non-state family law in Andalucia, which won the Canadian Law and Society Association/Association canadienne droit et société 2006 Book Prize. Unthinkable Thoughts; Academic Freedom and the One State Model for Israel and Palestine is based on fieldwork on the intersections between politically controversial ideas and the Canadian academy, was published in November, 2013.
Recognition/Reconnaissance
Canadian Law and Society Association/Association 2006 Book Prize | Professional
Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities, based on field work on non-state family law in Andalucia, won the Canadian Law and Society Association/Association 2006 Book Prize