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 a Course Instructor at the Women and Gender Studies Institute.

I am a critical legal scholar interested in family law, poverty law, and law and gender. My dissertation project is about the rules which govern the family lives of poor people. I am interested in how the rules of family law and social assistance determine the choices poor people have about their relationships and their work. I pay particular attention to how ideas of gender, disability, sex and race weave in and out of the welfare state's engagement with law.

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