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Backhouse has served as an expert witness and consultant on sexual abuse and violence against women and children. She was the co-author of one of the first books in North
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The unintended result of the new mandatory competencies is that the social justice curriculum will suffer. Elective courses in poverty law, access to justice, feminist legal issues,
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Colour-Coded: A Legal
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