National Association of Women and the Law

With funding from The Law Foundation of Ontario NAWL has developed A Women’s Guide to Money,  Relationships and the Law in Ontario. This online tool responds to the need of young women to know more about their economic rights when entering and leaving common law relationships or marriages and the difference between the two. The guide includes information about the different legal definitions of spouse in Ontario,  spousal and child support, economic abuse, the division of property, and has tools to help women write their own cohabitation or separation agreements.

Click here for more information and to dowload the guide

 The NAWL Charitable Trust for Research and Education has published an alternative orientation guide to law school:  Gender and the Law Manual: An Introductory Handbook for Law Students. The Manual was compiled by a working group of 8 law students from across Canada following a leadership summit held by NAWL in February 2011. It aims to provide feminist and equality seeking law students with hope, encouragement and inspiration as well as with some of the tools they may need to survive law school and legal practice.

NAWL is excited to announce that it has received funding from the McLean Foundation to study the feasibility of developing and implementing applied feminist curriculum in a Canadian law school using a clinic model. 

The study will include a needs assessment, taking into consideration the underserved legal needs of marginalized women.  Watch the NAWL website for updates on this project.

In February 2011, NAWL hosted a Feminist Leadership Summit in Ottawa that was attended by twenty-one young feminists from across Canada. All of the Summit participants, representing a diverse range of identities, had demonstrated leadership skills and equality rights work experience in their communities.