Shelley A.M. Gavigan
Professor and Associate Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

sgavigan@osgoode.york.ca. An earlier version of this Article was prepared for the Rights and Obligations of the Contemporary Family: Theorizing Individualism, Families and the State Conference, co-sponsored by Cegla, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University and Cornell Law School (December 15-17, 2010). I was honored by the invitation of Dr. Dafna Hacker and Professor Cynthia Grant-Bowman to participate in the Conference, and I thank them for their extraordinary support in this process. I thank Dr. Yuval Merin for his insightful commentary on the conference paper and my fellow conference participants for their comments and for the richness of the discussion throughout the conference. I also acknowledge with great thanks the research assistance of Anastasia Mandziuk (Osgoode JD 2012) and Joy Mathews (Osgoode JD 2011), the technical assistance of Miriam Spevack, the comments of Karen E. Andrews on earlier drafts of this Article, and the sharp eyes and good advice of the journal editors. The errors or weaknesses that remain are, of course, mine alone.