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DESCRIPTION:Childcare available upon request: please email Cee.Strauss [at]
  mail.mcgill.ca\nPlease note the new start time: the conference will now b
 egin at 17:30.\nJuly 1\, 2014 marks 50 years since Marie-Claire Kirkland’s
  Loi sur la capacité juridique de la femme mariée recognized the full lega
 l capacity of married women in Québec law. Kirkland was one in an illustri
 ous line of strong québécoise women who spent the better part of the 20th 
 century advocating for women’s equality\, and the 1964 legislation was a s
 ignificant gain in what came to be the stirrings of the second wave of Qué
 bec’s feminist movement.\nOn this 50th anniversary\, we consider the histo
 rical\, legal\, economic\, and affective implications of marital status on
  the lives of women\, and we inquire into what significance marital status
  continues to hold in Québec today. From the ongoing injustices of Aborigi
 nal women losing their Indian status by 'marrying out\,” to the Supreme Co
 urt’ of Canada's recent decision regarding de facto spousal relationships 
 in Quebec\, and on the ten-year anniversary of Quebec’s judicial recogniti
 on of same-sex marriage\, marital status continues to confer basic protect
 ions and social status from within the legacies of a patriarchal legal str
 ucture. The status of family law as “everyday law”\, as Marie Lacoste Géri
 n-Lajoie taught it\, further enriches our legal picture\, and invites us t
 o understand the significance of the 1964 legislation in the context of ma
 rried women’s lived experiences.\nCee Strauss and Professor Colleen Sheppa
 rd will moderate.\nSpeakers\nMe Jennifer Stoddart\, a feminist legal histo
 rian\, lawyer and Canada's former Privacy Commissioner\, who will be speak
 ing on law reform and feminism in Québec\n	Professor Robert Leckey\, a fami
 ly law professor\, who will address more recent developments concerning ma
 rital status in Quebec (on the occasion of the 10 year anniversary of the 
 Quebec Court of Appeal decision on same sex marriage\, and in the wake of 
 the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision on de facto spouses) \n	Ms. Mic
 hèle Audette\, President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada\, who
  will be speaking to the legal implications of marital status in relation 
 to the Indian Act\nThis event has been accredited for 1.5 hours of continu
 ing legal education for jurists by the Barreau du Québec.\n
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LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (NCDH 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, Q
 C\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Marriage Matters: 50 Years of Change and Continuity 
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 ge-and-continuity-239352
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