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Kathleen A. Lahey Professor B.A. (Illinois), J.D. (DePaul), LL.M.(York) Faculty of Law Queen's University Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 tel: (613) 533-6000, ext. 74277 fax: (613) 533-6509 e-mail: kal2@post.queensu.ca

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Teaching Subjects

• Taxation
• Tax Policy
• Property
• Law Gender and Equality
• Law and Sexuality

Recent Professional Achievements

• Presented papers on tax, fiscal, gender, sexuality, and equality issues, including gender budgeting and tax policy, at Workshop on Challenging Gender Inequality in Tax Policy (International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, 2009); Workshop on Fiscal Equality (Feminist Legal Studies Queen's, Kingston, 2009); Gender and Employment Insurance Study (Canada, House of Commons, Standing Committee on the Status of Women, 2009); Women's Budget Forum (Adva Center, Tel Aviv, 2008); Gender Budget Study (Canada, House of Commons, Standing Committee on the Status of Women, 2007-2008); New Brunswick Gender Budget Symposium (N.B. Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Frederickton, 2008); Symposium on Globalization and the Impact of Tax on International Investments (Queen's Faculty of Law, 2008); Pride Program on Law and Sexuality (Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, 2008); Conference on Making Tax Reforms Work for Women (International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, 2008); UN Conference on Gender Budgeting (Commission on the Status of Women, NY, 2008); Law and Society/Canadian Law and Society Association Conference (Montreal, 2008); National Association of Women and the Law Conference (Ottawa, 2007); Conference on Human Rights and International Development (Queen's University International Development Centre, 2006); International Conference on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/sexual Rights (First World Outgames, Montreal, 2006); Conference on Equality and the Family (University of Toronto Faculty of Law, 2005); International Lesbian and Gay Legal Association Conference (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, 2005).
• Awarded 3-year SSHRC research grant (2009-2012) for study on ‘Gender and Fiscal Equality'
• Organized, with Dr. Bita Amani, the First Annual Workshop on Women and Fiscal Equality (2008), co-sponsored by the Faculty of Law and Feminist Legal Studies Queen's
• 1998 Recipient of Queen's Law Students' Society Teaching Award
• Law Commission of Canada Advisory Board on Adult Relationships; Legal Counsel for BC Partners in Same-Sex Marriage Cases (BC and SCC Reference); EGALE Board (Equalityfor Gays and Lesbians Everywhere); Fair Tax Commission (Ont.) Working Groups on Corporate Taxation of Women; Founding Editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
• Research interests include tax law and policy, budgeting and governance, mainstreaming sex, sexulaity, and gender equality, environmental taxation, comparative and international taxation, distributive justice, the fiscal aspects of development policy, and diversity/hierarchy issues

Books and Monographs

• What About Women? Gender Analysis of Discussion Paper on New Brunswick's Tax System (New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women, 2008)
• Women and Employment: Removing Fiscal Barriers to Women's Labour Force Participation (Ottawa: Status of Women Canada, 2006)
• Same-sex Marriage: The Personal and the Political (Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2004, with Kevin Alderson)
• The Impact of Relationship Recognition on Lesbian Women in Canada: Still Separate and Only Somewhat 'Equivalent' (Ottawa: Status of Women Canada, 2001)
• The Benefit/Penalty Unit in Income Tax: Diversity and Reform (Ottawa: Law Commission of Canada, 2001)
• Are We Persons Yet: Law and Sexuality in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1999)
• The Taxation of Women (Kingston: Queen's University Faculty of Law, 1989)
• Corporate Taxation (Toronto: Emond-Montgomery, 1985)

 R ecent Publications

• Kathleen Lahey. ‘The "Capture" of Women in Law and Fiscal Policy: Implications for the Tax/Benefit Unit and Gender Equality, and Challenges for Feminist Ontologies' (forthcoming)
• Kathleen Lahey. ‘How Taxes Affect Women in Canada' (forthcoming)
• Kathleen Lahey. ‘How the Tax System Affects Women's Access to Paid Work' (Tel Aviv: Women's Budget Forum, Adva, 2008)
• Kathleen Lahey. ‘International Taxation, Women, and Gender Analysis: The Critical Role of Gender Analysis' (UBC working paper series, and submitted for publication).
• Kathleen Lahey. ‘New Brunswick and Fiscal Policy: Tax Women Fairly - Or at Least ‘do no Harm' and ‘Gender Impact Analysis of Alternative Tax Reform Measures for New Brunswick' (Frederickton: N.B. Advisory Council on the Status of Women, 2008)
• Kathleen Lahey. ‘Gender analysis of ‘tax-free savings' and income splitting with TFSAs': ‘Critique of the Department of Finance "Gender Analysis of Tax Measures in Budgets 2006 and 2007"'; ‘Where are the women? Gender analysis of direct expenditures, tax revenues, and tax expenditures in Budget 2008'; and ‘The gender budget: Gender-based analysis of revenues and expenditures' (Ottawa: House of Commons, Standing Committee on the Status of Women, 2007-2008)
• Kathleen Lahey. ‘Missing women: Gender impact analysis and international taxation' in Globalization and the Impact of Tax on International Investments, ed. A. Cockfield. (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, in publication)
• Kathleen Lahey. ‘A taxing issue: Tax policies and women in Canada's modern economy' (NY: UN Commission on the Status of Women, 52nd session, 2008)
• Kathleen Lahey. ‘Tax policy and the "traditional family" model' in Mothering in law, ed. A. Cote (Ottawa: National Association of Women and the Law, 2007)
• Kathleen Lahey. ‘Sexual orientation and gender identity bias in the legal profession and the legal system' CBA Triangle (2007)
• Kathleen Lahey. ‘Heteronormativity, equality, and the family: Beyond freedom to marry'Journal of Law and Equality, 4:1 (2005)
• Kathleen Lahey. ‘Gender-based analysis and women's equality: The promise of gender mainstreaming in China and Canada' (Beijing: All-China Women's Federation Women's Studies, 2005, trans.)
• Kathleen Lahey. ‘B.C. Court of Appeal - "True equality" requires same-sex couples be permitted to marry' (2003), Law Times (May 8)
• Kathleen Lahey. ‘Metis women and federal self-governance: Entrenching inequality through the devolution of discrimination' (2002) Jurisfemme
• Kathleen Lahey. ‘Becoming "Persons" in Canadian Law: Genuine Equality or "Separate but Equal"?' in R. Wintemute and M. Andenaes eds. Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships: A Study of National, European and International Law. (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001) 237
• Kathleen Lahey. "Tax Law and ‘Equality': the Canadian Charter of Rights, Sex, and Sexuality" (2000) 4 British Tax Review 378