Introduction: Domestic Violence and Access to Justice within the Family Law and Intersecting Legal Systems

The articles in this collection explore the access to justice issues that arise for survivors of domestic violence in their encounters with Canada’s family law system. While family law and family dispute resolution processes are the central focus of the articles, three contributions also address family law\u27s intersections with other legal domains (civil restraining orders, child welfare, and immigration). Common across the contributions is a desire to carefully interrogate the potential of law and legal processes to enhance—or conversely to undermine—the safety and well-being of survivors and their children

Mediating the GM Foods Debate: Lessons from the Enduring Conflict Framework

Critics of the commercialization of Genetically Modified (GM) foods in Canada and the United States oppose the economic and political forces that create and approve the technology: the industry that develops it and the governments that approve its use. The conventional narrative pits the concerned public, labeled anti-GM, against the pro-GM interests of industry supported by business-friendly governments. Based on this binary view of the interests and motivations of stakeholders, conflict betwee