National Association of Women and the Law

Published purpose

Through this 34-month project, NAWL will work to advance women’s response and recovery from the impacts of COVID-19 through systemic feminist law reform. Objectives will be achieved by a combination of key activities, including: supporting and advancing intersectional feminist law reform engagement by women’s movements, organizations, lawyers and emerging law reformers; increasing NAWL’s online and social media advocacy and influence by creating and deploying proactive and timely content; bolstering the network of feminist law reform alliances and coalitions through coalition building, including building a multi-disciplinary network of feminist legal experts; and directly undertaking proactive and reactive feminist law reform activities to promote systemic change, firmly rooted in substantive equality. Building on their respective areas of expertise, NAWL and its collaborators will focus their post-pandemic efforts on both process-driven and substantive law reform activities. For instance, as outlined above, NAWL will work in close collaboration with Luke’s Place on family law and other VAW reform efforts. NAWL will also prioritize expanding its law reform tools, particularly its FLR101 resources, to include provincial/territorial advocacy content, with LEAF becoming a primary potential user in the context of their proposed WAGE project on advancing reproductive justice.