No Legal Way Out

Nadia Verrelli is an associate professor of political science at Laurentian University. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and editor of The Role of the Policy Advisor: An Inside Look, Canada: The State of the Federation, 2011 – The Changing Federal Environment: Rebalancing Roles? and The Democratic Dilemma: Reforming Canada’s Supreme Court. Lori Chambers is a professor of gender and women’s studies at Lakehead University. She is the author of Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario and Misconceptions: Unmarried Motherhood and the Ontario Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921–1969, both winners of the Alison Prentice Award in Ontario women’s history. She is also the author of A Legal History of Adoption in Ontario, 1921–2015.