Critical Perspectives on 21st Century Friendship

Rebecca Bromwich, PhD, LLM, LLB is a lawyer, legal scholar, and mother of four. She is Director of the Graduate Diploma in Conflict Resolution Program in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, as well as a practicing lawyer in the fields of criminal and family law. Olivia Ungar is an honours student in the law and legal studies program at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada.

"This edited collection provides a rare and truly interdisciplinary study of friendship as a theoretical concept. The editors traverse law, popular culture and academia as the contributors explore compassionate concepts that deserve more scholarly attention. The volume is a refreshing journey that helps provide a much needed optimistic frame in an age of cynicism and propaganda.” -- Richard Jochelson, Associate Professor, Co-Editor in Chief, Criminal Law Edition of Manitoba Law Journal & Robsoncrim.com

• • Sally Param: “Responding and adjusting: Exploring the friendship dilemma through the qualitative lens of educated Indian women in Malaysia; • Rebecca Bromwich, “ Blurred Lines and Spaces for Renewal: Love, Family and Friendship - Reconsidering Polygamy Under the Law in Canada”.; • Josephine L. Savarese, “Research Project Reality Show”; • Stephens, “Friendships in the Japanese Language: Intersubjectivity Through Mothering”; • Ferguson and King, “The Third Shift Writers Collaborative’s Ibeji Model: Friendship Bonds as Grist and Soul’s Salvation in the Scholarly Writing Process”; • Elieen Doherty and Kari Wilson, “Women `Playing House’: An In-Depth Examination of Adult Female Friendship on Television”; • Rebecca Bromwich and Thomas Harrison, “Protecting the Public in the Twilight of Trials: Ways Forward Towards Access to Justice in Relational Conflict via the Regulation of Mediator.”; • Myrina Bromwich, “Friendship”; • Jens Urban, “ Polygamy and Human Rights in France and In Canada”