Beverley Baines was a constitutional equality rights consultant for the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, the National Association of Women and the Law, and the Ad Hoc Committee of Canadian Women on the Constitution, during the fight to strengthen women’s Charter rights in the early 1980s. With Ruth Rubio-Marin, she co-edited The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence (Cambridge University Press, 2004), examining the constitutional rights of women in twelve countries. A Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University, she is currently Head of the Women’s Studies Department in the Faculty of Arts & Science and teaches Law and Public Policy in the School of Policy Studies.