Publications

Selected Publications and Presentations

• Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and the Law, Canada- U.S. Comparisons (forthcoming)
• On the Bias: Ideas for Judicial Education and Action, (New York University Press) (forthcoming) (with John Wilson).
• "Women and International Human Rights Legal Theory", in Women's International Human Rights: A Reference Guide, Askin and Koenig, eds., (forthcoming).
• "Equality and Israel's Basic Law", Canada-Israel Law Conference, 1998.
• "Substantive Equality in the Judicial Decision-Making Process", Judicial Education Seminar, Delhi, India, 1998.
• "Constitutional Equality in Canada and South Africa", National Judicial Education  Conference, Capetown, South Africa, 1998.
• "Systematic Rape as Genocide", Foreign Policy School Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1998.
• "The Promotion of Hatred of Women Through Pornography: The Legal Response," Violence, Abuse and Women's Citizenship International Conference, Brighton, England, 1996.
• "National Legislation and International Trafficking Patterns in Child Pornography," World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Stockholm, Sweden, 1996.
• "Vriend v. Alberta: A Victory for Discrimination", (1996) Canadian Labour and Employment Journal.
• "Pornography", Canadian Encyclopedia (1996 ed.).
• "The Myth of Judicial Neutrality: The Role of Judicial Education in the Fair Administration of Justice", 1996 (fall), Willamette Law Journal (in print).
• "Hate Speech: Affirmation or Contradiction of Freedom of Expression?", University of Illinois Law Review,  1996, No. 3.
• "Gender Bias in Family Law", (1996) 2 Butterworths Family Law Journal, 308.
• "Analysis of Feminist Perspectives on Women's Rights as Human Rights and Strategies for Implementation", Brooklyn Journal of Int'l. Law, Vol. XIX, 1 (1996).
• "Why International Human Rights Protections are Empty Promises for Women," Canadian Bar Association and Commonwealth Bar Association Joint Meeting (1996).
• "Women's Rights and Human Rights: Strategies for Implementation", Canada-China Human Rights and Research Symposium, Peking University, Beijing, Conference Proceedings, (1996).
• "Sex Tourism, Law and Cultural Values", Centre for Research of Sexual Exploitation of Adolescents and Children, Brazil, (1996).
• "Canadian Approaches to Equality Rights and Gender Equity in the Courts", in Human Rights of Women, Rebecca Cook, ed., University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights (1994).
• "Hate Vilification vs. Freedom of Speech", in Pandora's Box, The Journal of the Women and The Law Society, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, (1994).
• "Gender Bias in Judicial Decisions", The Judicial Review, Vol. 1, No. 3, September 1993 (Australia).
• "International Strategies to Implement Equality Rights for Women: Overcoming Gender Bias in the Courts", Vol. 1, Australian Feminist Law Journal (La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia) (1993).
• "Destruction of Women's Rights Through Mass Media Proliferation of Pornography", in Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Challenge, K.E. Mahoney and P.J. Mahoney ,eds. (1993).
• "The Legal Treatment of Pornography - Comparisons Between Europe, The United States and Canada", Irwin Cotler, Pearl Eliadas, eds. International Human Rights Law:  Theory and Practice, Canadian Human Rights Foundation, Montreal (1993).
• Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Challenge, Martinus, Nijoff, (1993) (with P.J. Mahoney).
• "Canadian Foreign Policy and Human Rights", International Journal, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, XLVII, Summer, 1992.
• "The Constitutional Law of Equality in Canada", (1992) 24 Journal of International Law & Politics, No. 2, 759 (New York University).
• "The Constitutional Law of Equality in Canada", (1992) 44 Maine Law Review, No. 2, 229.
• "The Canadian Constitutional Approach to Freedom of Expression in Hate Propaganda and Pornography", (1992), 55 Law and Contemporary Problems, No. 1, p.77.
• "R. v. Keegstra: A Rationale for Regulating Pornography?", (1992) 37 McGill Law Journal, 242.
• "The Legal Treatment of Spousal Abuse: A Case of Sex Discrimination", (1992) 41 U.N.B.L.J. 23.
• "Canaries in a Coal Mine: Canadian Judges and the Reconstruction of Obscenity Law", D. Schneiderman, ed., Freedom of Expression and the Charter, (Toronto: Carswell, 1991).
• R. v. Butler Factum filed in the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, (1991), Kathleen Mahoney, Linda Taylor, Co-counsel.
• Her Majesty the Queen v. James Keegstra, and John Ross Taylor and the Western Guard Party v. Canadian Human Rights Commission et al. Factums filed in the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, (1989), Kathleen Mahoney, Linda Taylor, Co-counsel .
• "The Limits of Liberalism" in Canadian Perspectives on Legal Theory, (1990) R.F. Devlin, ed., Emond Montgomery.29
• "Lawyering and Legal Education into the Twenty-First Century", (1990) 1 Occasional Papers 41, A. Esau and J. Penner, eds. (Legal Research Institute of the University of Manitoba).
• Equality and Judicial Neutrality, Carswells, (1987) (with Sheila L. Martin).
• "Biased and Neutral Approaches in Obscenity Decisions", Equality and Judicial Neutrality, eds., K. Mahoney and S. Martin, Carswells (1987).
• "Obscenity, Morals and the Law: Challenging Basic Assumptions," Justice Beyond Orwell, Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, (1986).
• "Problems in the Law of Sexual Harassment", Women, The Law & The Economy, eds. K.E. Mahoney, E. Diane Pask, C.A. Brown, Butterworths, (1985).
• Women, The Law & The Economy, Butterworths (1985), eds. Kathleen E. Mahoney, E. Diane Pask, and C.A. Brown.
• "R. v. McCraw: Rape Fantasies v. Fear of Sexual Assault", (1989), 21 Ottawa Law Review, No. 1, 207.
• "Language as Violence v. Freedom of Expression: Canadian and American Perspectives on Group Defamation", (1988-89), 37 Buffalo Law Review, No. 2, 344.
• "Defining Pornography: An Analysis of Bill C-54" (1988), 33 McGill Law Journal, No. 3, 575.
• "Obscenity and Public Policy: Conflicting Values - Conflicting Statutes" (1985-86) 50, Saskatchewan Law Review, 75.
• "Day Care and Equality in Canada" (1985) 14 Manitoba Law Journal,  3.
• "Obscenity, Morals and the Law: A Feminist Critique" (1985), 17 Ottawa Law Review, 33.