Susan Boyd

Prof. Susan Boyd, University of British Columbia http://www.law.ubc.ca/faculty/Boyd

Professor Susan Boyd is an editor emeritus for JP Boyd on Family Law. She has taught law at UBC since 1992 and holds the endowed research Chair in Feminist Legal Studies. Professor Boyd teaches courses in the fields of feminist legal studies, family law, and law and social justice. She researches and publishes on feminist legal theory, and gender and sexuality issues in the fields of family law, especially child custody and parenthood law. She sits is on several editorial and advisory boards. In 2012, Professor Boyd was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest honour a scholar can achieve in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences, in recognition of her international reputation as a leading socio-legal scholar.