2 A Traditionalist’s Property Jurisprudence

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xii
5. Introduction 1
6. Foundations
7. Bertha Wilson’s Practice Years (1958-75): Establishing a Research Practice and Founding a Research Department in Canada 15
8. A Traditionalist’s Property Jurisprudence 39
9. Power, Discretion, and Vulnerability: Justice Wilson and Fiduciary Duty in the Corporate/Commercial Context 56
10. A Few More Spokes to the Wheel: Reasonableness, Fairness, and Justice in Justice Bertha Wilson’s Approach to Contract Law 74
11. Giving Emotions Their Due: Justice Bertha Wilson’s Response to Intangible Loss in Contract 92
12. Controversy
13. Picking Up Where Justice Wilson Left Off: The Tort of Discrimination Revisited 113
14. Paradigms of Prostitution: Revisiting the Prostitution Reference 131
15. Contextualizing Criminal Defences: Exploring the Contribution of Justice Bertha Wilson 153
16. “Finally I Know Where I Am Going to Be From”: Culture, Context, and Time in a Look Back at Racine v. Woods 173
17. Challenging Patriarchy or Embracing Liberal Norms? Justice Wilson’s Child Custody and Access Decisions 190
18. Reflections
19. But Was She a Feminist Judge? 211
20. I Agree/Disagree for the Following Reasons: Convergence, Divergence, and Justice Wilson’s “Modest Degree of Creativity” 229
21. A Way of Being in the World 246
22. Ideas and Transformation: A Reflection on Bertha Wilson’s Contribution to Gender Equality in the Legal Profession 262
23. Taking a Stand on Equality: Bertha Wilson and the Evolution of Judicial Education in Canada 278
24. Bertha Wilson: “Silences” in a Woman’s Life Story 297
25. Contributors 317
26. Index 322
27. Law and Society 329