Ronalda Murphy
(on leave 2009-10 at the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario)

B.A. (UPEI) 1984, LL.B. (Dalhousie) 1987, LL.M. (Toronto) 1991, S.J.D. (Harvard) 1999.

Associate Professor

Telephone: (902) 494-1024
E-mail: ronalda.murphy@dal.ca

Biography:

Associate Professor, Acting Associate Dean Graduate Studies and Research (July-December 2004) Assistant Professor (1999-2004). B.A. (UPEI) 1984, LL.B. (Dalhousie) 1987, LL.M. (Toronto) 1991, S.J.D. (Harvard) 1999. Supreme Court of Canada Law Clerk to Justice Estey 1987-88. Associate in Litigation, Stikeman, Elliott 1988-1990. Lecturer at York University (Osgoode and Glendon, part-time), University of New Brunswick (part-time), and the University of the Witswatersrand in South Africa (full-time) 1988-1993.

Awards:

The Dalhousie Law Students’ Society and Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching - 2006

Teaching subjects:

Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Evidence, Civil Procedure and the Graduate Seminar.

Research subjects:

Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, Evidence, Feminism, Family Law, Legal Theory and Aboriginal Law.

Book Editing:

• Doing Justice in the Courts (forthcoming, 2009) (Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice) (co-editor with Patrick A. Molinari)
• Evidence: A Canadian Casebook 2nd ed. (2006, Emond Montgomery, Hamish Stewart, gen. ed.) (contributing editor “Judicial Notice”, with Stewart, Pilkington, Penney, Stribopoulos)
• The Civil Litigation Process: Cases and Materials, 6th ed. (2005, Emond Montgomery Publications, gen. ed. Janet Walker) (contributing editor “Privilege”, with Walker, Watson, Hutchinson, Pinos, Bailey, Farrow, Hanycz, Page, Pirie, Sossin)

Chapters in Books:

• “Introduction” in Doing Justice in the Courts (forthcoming, 2009) (Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, Ronalda Murphy and Patrick A. Molinari, eds.)
• Chapter 24 “The Evidentiary Burden” and Chapter 25 “The Persuasive Burden” in Canadian Criminal Evidence, July 2008 (Canada Law Book, eds. Hill, Tanovich, and Strezos)
• "Peace, Order and Good Government” in Constitutional Law (2008, Carswell Press, ed. L. Rotman et. al.)
• “Aquaculture Law and Policy in Canada and the Duty to Consult with Aboriginal Peoples” in Aquaculture Law (2006, Routledge Press, ed. David VanderZwaag) (with Richard Devlin and Tamara Lorincz)
• “The Politics of Comparative Constitutional Law: Implications for Theories of Justice” in Constitutional Politics in Canada and the United States (2004, SUNY Press, ed. Stephen Newman)
• “Reconfiguration through Consultation?  A Modest (Judicial) Proposal,” in
• Canada: The State of the Federation 2003. Reconfiguring Aboriginal-State Relations (2003, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, ed. Michael Murphy) (with Richard Devlin)
• “The Women’s Movement and Constitutional Change: Canada and South Africa” in Women Making Constitutions: New Politics and Comparative Perspectives (2003, Palgrave MacMillan Press, eds. Vivien Hart and Alexandra Dobrowolsky)

Articles:

• "S.(J.H.): A New and Improved W.(D.)," (2008) 57 C.R. (6th) 89
• “Inadmissable, eh?” 2007 7:9 The American Journal of Bioethics 67 (co-author with Jocelyn Downie)
• “All the Difference in the World” 2006, 24:3 The Society Record 19
• “Same Sex Marriage and the Same Old Constitution”, 2005, 14:3 Constitutional Forum 21
• “Town or Gown” 2004, 22:4 The Society Record 15
• “Is the Turn Toward Collaborative Justice a Turn Away From Justice?”
• 2004, 42:3
• Family Court Review 460
• “Contextualizing the Duty to Consult: Clarification or Transformation?” 2003,
• 14:2 National Journal of Constitutional Law 167 (with Richard Devlin)
• “Unstable Categories: Comparing the Politics of ‘Gender’ in the Early 1990s in Canada and South Africa” 2002, 14:2 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 300
• “R v. F (W.J.): Hearsay Evidence and the Necessity of Necessity” 2000, 43 Crim. L. Q. 181 (with Shalin Sugunasiri)
• “Postmodern Pride: Mary Joe Frug’s Manifesto” 1994, 19 Law & Social Inquiry 1079