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Faces of UVic Research: Gillian Calder
Gillian Calder is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. 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. In this video, she discusses her research into family law and how the law defines family. She also speaks to her interest in bringing new methods of teaching into law classrooms through more engaging, performance-type exercises.
On decriminalizing the Canadian sex industry: UVic Associate Professor Gillian Calder
Peers Victoria in Victoria, B.C. hosted a public discussion on Sept. 19, 2014, "Decriminalizing the Sex Industry: Beyond the Myths and Misconceptions." The full two-hour video of the event is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WndW... but Peers has also pulled out short clips of key comments from the eight participants featured at the event, such as this one from Gillian Calder, associate professor of law at the University of Victoria, BC.
Comment: Barbarism exists within our borders, too
Gillian Calder: Assisted-dying ruling is wise and compassionate
Comment: Ghomeshi case raises disturbing legal issues
Comment: Connecting the dots in family-violence cases
Comment: Law-school ruling affects all of us
What #JusticeforJoyce should mean for policymakers
Biography
Gillian Calder is an Associate Professor, and former Associate Dean, at the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law where she has been teaching Constitutional Law and Family Law from feminist, queer and anti-colonialist perspectives since July 2004. Calder's research has focused on questions of legal imagination, theories of constitutional law, law's impact on our understanding of the family and family formation, and storytelling. In particular, she is keenly interested in critical legal pedagogy.