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Polygamy in Canada: Legal and Social Implications for Women and Children – A Collection of Policy Research Reports
Expanding Recognition of Foreign Polygamous Marriages: Policy Implications for Canada
THE AUTHORS
Dr. Martha Bailey, Principal Researcher
Martha Bailey, LL.B. (University of Toronto), LL.M., (Queen's University), D.Phil. (Oxford University), teaches in the Faculty of Law of Queen's University. Her expertise is in the area of domestic and transnational family law. Dr. Bailey is a reporter for the Hague Conference on Private International Law's International Child Abduction Database and served as a member of the Advisory Group on Close Personal Relationships for the Law Commission of Canada. Her recent publications include “Same-sex Relationships Across Borders,” (2004) McGill Law Journal 49, 1005.
Professor Beverley Baines, Co-principal researcher
Beverley Baines, B.A. (McGill University), LL.B. (Queen's University), has been a member of the Faculty of Law of Queen's University since 1974, has taught in Queen's School of Policy Studies since 1992, and is now serving as the Head of Women's Studies at Queen's University. Professor Baines is a constitutional law expert, and her recent publications include The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence, with Ruth Rubio-Marin, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Professor Bita Amani, Co-principal researcher
Bita Amani, B.A. (York University), LL.B. (Osgoode Hall Law School), S.J.D. candidate (University of Toronto), joined the Faculty of Law of Queen's University in 2002. She teaches and publishes in the field of intellectual property law. Her recent publications include “The Human Genome Diversity Project: The Politics of Patents at the Intersection of Race, Religion, and Research Ethics” (2005) Law and Policy 27, 152 (with Rosemary Coombe). Professor Amani, an Iranian-Canadian, has extensive experience conducting government policy research.
Ms. Amy Kaufman, Researcher, Research Assistant, Editor
Amy Kaufman, B.A., LL.B. (Queen's University), is a recipient of the Law Society of Upper Canada's 2004 Award for Academic Excellence. She serves as Clerk to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto. Ms. Kaufman's article “Polygamous Marriages in Canada” is forthcoming in (2005), Canadian Journal of Family Law.
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