Professor Kobayashi Lui researches family law and social assistance law. Her research is interdisciplinary, employing insights from political science, sociology, and welfare state studies to map law's distributive consequences. She has written about Ontario's social assistance programs, alternative family forms, unwaged care work, and feminist critiques of carceral law reforms. Her present research interests include the interaction between private law and disability social assistance, the treatment of race in Canadian family law scholarship, and the proliferation of debt in the laws that govern family life. Prior to academia, she worked at a non-profit specializing in public interest law and in publishing.
In 2026-2027, Professor Kobayashi Lui will be teaching Property Law and Access to Justice. Most of her publications are available here.