Yukiko Kobayashi Lui

I am a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Law with a collaborative specialization in sexual diversity studies at the Mark S. Bonham Centre. I teach part of the Faculty's LLM seminar, and I am also a Course Instructor at the Women and Gender Studies Institute.

My research interests are in family law, poverty law and critical legal theories. My doctoral project is about the law and politics of relationship recognition in the context of Ontario's welfare state. I am interested in how law and social assistance constitute and reproduce the borders of 'the family', paying attention to how material conditions affect the choices people have about their family lives and how they do socially reproductive work for themselves and others.

Prior to commencing my doctoral studies, I worked in the non-profit sector and in publishing.