Contributors

• Author: Elizabeth Sheeny
• Pages: 385-390

Contributors

The

Honourable Rosalie

Silberman

Abella

has

been

a

judge

on the

Ontario Court

of

Appeal

since 1992.

She

chaired

the

Ontario Labour Relations Board,

the

Ontario

Law

Reform

Commission,

and the

Study

on

Access

to

Legal

Services

by the

Disabled,

and

was

a

member

of the

Ontario

Human Rights

Commission,

the

Premier's Advisory

Committee

on

Confederation,

and the

Ontario

Public Service Labour Relations

Tribunal.

She was

sole

Commissioner

and

author

of the

1984

federal Royal

Commission

on

Equality

in

Employment,

in

which

she

created

the

term

and

concept

of

"employment equity,"

a new

strategy

for

reducing barriers

in

employment

faced

by

women, aboriginal people, non-whites,

and

persons with disabilities.

The

theories

of

"equality"

and

"discrimination"

she

developed

in her

Report were adopted

by the

Supreme

Court

of

Canada

in its first

decision dealing with equality rights under

the

Charter

of

Rights

and

Freedoms.

The

Report

has

been implemented

by the

govern-

ments

of

Canada,

New

Zealand, Northern Ireland,

and

South

Africa.

Susan

B.

Boyd

is

Professor

of Law at the

University

of

British Columbia where

she

holds

the

Chair

in

Feminist

Legal

Studies

and is

Director

of the

Centre

for

Feminist

Legal

Studies. Professor Boyd teaches courses

in the

fields

of

feminist

legal studies

and

family

law.

She

researches

and

publishes

on

feminist legal theory

as

well

as on

gender

and

sexuality issues

in

family

law,

especially child custody

and

access

law.

She is a

long-standing member

of the

editorial

board

of the

Canadian

Journal

of

Women

and

the

Law.

She

also works

for law

reform

in

family

law and is a

member

of

organizations

that work

for

social change, such

as the

National Association

of

Women

and the

Law.

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