Nicholas (Nick) Bala, LLM¶
Canada's leading legal academic on family violence, alienation, and children-resisting-contact cases.
Why he matters here¶
Bala writes for judges. His Canadian case-law studies (Bala/Hunt/McCarney 2009; Bala/Hunter 2017) are routinely cited in Canadian, UK, and Australian judgments. If you want to know how courts actually adjudicate PA cases — not just how clinicians theorise about them — start with Bala.
Credentials & affiliation¶
- LLM (Harvard)
- William R. Lederman Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
- Co-editor (with Barbara Jo Fidler and Joan Kelly), 2020 Family Court Review special issue on PA
Key contributions¶
- Children Who Resist Postseparation Parental Contact (Oxford, 2013) — with Barbara Jo Fidler and Rachel Birnbaum.
- "Parental Alienation: Myths, Realities & Uncertainties" (2010) — the standard primer.
- 2024 SSRN paper "Children Resisting Contact & Parental Alienation: Strategies for Lawyers" — practitioner-facing strategy guide.
- Canadian case-law studies (Bala/Hunt/McCarney 2009; Bala/Hunter 2017).
Where to find his work¶
- Queen's Law faculty page
- SSRN author page
Contact¶
- nick.bala@queensu.ca (publicly listed on Queen's Law faculty page)