Susan Boyd, University of British Columbia
Law Professor Emerita Vancouver, British Columbia boyd@law.ubc.ca
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Susan B. Boyd joined the UBC Faculty of Law in 1992. She taught previously at Carleton University's Department of Law in Ottawa. At UBC, she holds the endowed research Chair in Feminist Legal Studies. She was the founding Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies from 2007 to 2012.
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Susan B. Boyd joined the UBC Faculty of Law in 1992. She taught previously at Carleton University's Department of Law in Ottawa. At UBC, she holds the endowed research Chair in Feminist Legal Studies. She was the founding Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies from 2007 to 2012.
Professor Boyd teaches courses in the fields of Feminist Legal Studies, Family Law, and Law and Social Justice. She researches and publishes on feminist legal theory, and gender and sexuality issues in the fields of family law, especially child custody and parenthood law. In 2007, she co-edited Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change and Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship and Legal Activism. Law and Families appeared in 2006. Her book Child Custody, Law, and Women's Work was published in 2003. Canadian Feminist Literature on Law: An Annotated Bibliography appeared in 1999. Challenging the Public/Private Divide: Feminism, Law, and Public Policy was published in 1997. Her recent work focuses on legal parenthood and the possibilities for autonomous motherhood.
Professor Boyd is a long-standing member of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law and is on several other editorial or advisory boards. She also works for law reform in the family law field and is a member of organizations that work for social change, such as the National Association of Women and the Law.
In 2012, Professor Boyd was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest honour a scholar can achieve in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences, in recognition of her international reputation as a leading socio-legal scholar who has made exceptional contributions to family law and feminist legal studies. Other awards include a UBC Law Faculty Scholar Award (2010) and a UBC Law Alumni Award for Research (2008).
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Professor Boyd teaches courses in the fields of Feminist Legal Studies, Family Law, and Law and Social Justice. She researches and publishes on feminist legal theory, and gender and sexuality issues in the fields of family law, especially child custody and parenthood law. In 2007, she co-edited Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change and Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship and Legal Activism. Law and Families appeared in 2006. Her book Child Custody, Law, and Women's Work was published in 2003. Canadian Feminist Literature on Law: An Annotated Bibliography appeared in 1999. Challenging the Public/Private Divide: Feminism, Law, and Public Policy was published in 1997. Her recent work focuses on legal parenthood and the possibilities for autonomous motherhood.
Professor Boyd is a long-standing member of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law and is on several other editorial or advisory boards. She also works for law reform in the family law field and is a member of organizations that work for social change, such as the National Association of Women and the Law.
In 2012, Professor Boyd was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest honour a scholar can achieve in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences, in recognition of her international reputation as a leading socio-legal scholar who has made exceptional contributions to family law and feminist legal studies. Other awards include a UBC Law Faculty Scholar Award (2010) and a UBC Law Alumni Award for Research (2008).
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