Beverley Baines
Beverley Baines
Professor
Faculty of Law
Faculties & Schools
Queen's University
bainesb@queensu.ca
613-533-6000 x79589
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Office: Macdonald Hall 527
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Research Description

Professor Baines has developed interests in Women's equality rights particularly the intersection of sex equality and religious freedom under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. She has a passion for illuminating the legal strategies the patriarchal state deploys to deny women their right to equality which is guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Current Teaching

LAW144 Public Law W20 (Professor)

https://law.queensu.ca/Public-Law144

Selected Degrees

B.A.McGill University
J.D.Queen's University

Biography

Professor Baines earned a BA Hons (Economics and Political Science) from McGill and a JD from Queen’s, following which she articled with Trumpour and Kennedy in Kingston, joined Queen’s Law as a faculty member, was admitted to the Law Society of Upper Canada, and served as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Law (1994-1997). Seconded twice to the Faculty of Arts and Science, she was Co-Coordinator of the Institute of Women’s Studies (1991-1993) and Head of the Department of Gender Studies (2004-2011).