CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY

A Conceptual Approach Towards Domestic Violence in Pakistan on the Touchstone of International Human Rights Obligations

This university study focuses on the interplay between human rights and domestic violence in the Pakistani context through international, regional, and domestic human rights instruments. The authors situate their study in the context that domestic violence is often perceived in Pakistan to be a private matter and is not considered suitable for state or policy intervention.

Legal Mobilization, Transnational Activism, and Gender Equality in the EU

This article focuses on the use of rights and legislations within the European Union as platforms which provide the legal opportunity for gender equality advocacy, and the effects of this use on transnational activism on po

Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: the Murder of Pamela George

The murder of a Saulteaux (Ojibway) nation woman in Regina, Canada and the subsequent conviction of two white men for manslaughter is discussed in this article in the context of what the author calls "spatialized justice". The author argues that identity as it relates to space acted as a factor in the trial in so far as the victim was characterized as belonging to a "zone of violence" and the accused as foreign to this space and so less culpable.