Featured Articles: When It Hurts to be Home

What happens when your home is not a safe and welcoming place? The law can help; services and supports are available.

Reflecting on Family Violence
Sarah Dargatz
A family law lawyer muses on the importance of hearing and acknowledging her clients’ experiences of violence.
A Spotlight on Family Violence and Immigrant Women in Canada
Lindsey Whitson and Faye Wong
Immigrant women who experience domestic violence may also have to cope with social isolation and language barriers.
Domestic Violence, Renting and the Law
Rochelle Johannson
Homelessness is often a result of domestic violence because of difficulties with rented accommodation. How can the law help?
Corporal Punishment and Domestic Violence
Lana Wells and Alina Tanasescu Turner
Research shows that even mild or moderate corporal punishment has harmful side effects, including the possibility of domestic violence later in life.
Including Pets in Protective Orders
Tim Battle
Women with pets or livestock often delay leaving situations of domestic violence because they are worried about their animals. But Emergency Protection Orders can include them.

Special Report: The Law of Lost and Found

Finders Keepers? An Historical Survey of Lost and Abandoned Property
Marjun Parcasio
We reach way back to Roman law to establish the rules of ownership of lost property.
All Is Not Lost: The Law of Lost and Found
Peter Bowal and Dusan Kuzma
Over many centuries, lots of rules have been established to determine the ultimate outcome of lost property.

Departments

Viewpoint
Bus Ads Target and Isolate Muslims
Amarjeet Sohi and Erum Afsar 
Ask a Law Librarian
Domestic Violence: Useful Websites for Alberta 
Alberta Law Libraries    
Legal News
Long arm of U of A law looking to reach rural Alberta
Bev Betkowski

Columns

Human Rights Law
Human Rights and Québec’s Charter of Values
Linda McKay-Panos
Not-for-Profit Law
Some Nuances to Keep in Mind When Measuring Giving
Peter Broder
Landlord and Tenant Law
I’ve Been Good. Can My Landlord Make Me Move?
Rochelle Johannson
Criminal Law
Criminal Defence Law in the North: Part One
Charles Davison
A Famous Case Revisited
Whatever Happened to … The Law of Sniffer Dog Searches
Peter Bowal and Evan Knight

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