Lisa Philipps, York University

Research

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Latest funding

Global North and Global South Perspectives on Transnational Governance: An Indian-Canadian Conversation
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$25,000
Silent partners and executive spouses: the construction of women's unpaid market work in tax law
SSHRC · 2004 · Principal investigator
$55,385
Feminism, law and the challenge of privatization
SSHRC · 1997 · Co-investigator
$40,000

All 3 grants and awards

No publications available.

Global North and Global South Perspectives on Transnational Governance: An Indian-Canadian Conversation

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Philipps, Lisa

Keywords: transnational law; governance; comparative law; global south; law and development; access to justice; foreign investment; transnational litigation; economic globalisation; human rights

$25,000

Silent partners and executive spouses: the construction of women's unpaid market work in tax law

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Philipps, Lisa

Keywords: taxation law; tax policy; family business; private corporations; partnership; executive spouse; women's unpaid work; intersectionality; gender; class; race; market/family dichotomy; judicial construction; role of professional advisors

$55,385

Feminism, law and the challenge of privatization

Co-investigatorSSHRC1997Women and Change

Principal investigators: Cossman, Brenda

Keywords: Feminism; law, women's rights; reprivatization; economic and social policy; law reform strategies

$40,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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