Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism

Elizabeth A. Sheehy is full professor of the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on the legal responses to male violence against women, especially sexual assault, and battered women who kill. In addition to many articles, position papers, and book chapters on criminal law issues affecting women and racialized persons, she has edited or co-edited several collections, including a special double issue of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Mandatory Minimum Sentences: Law and Policy (2001), Adding Feminism to Law: The Contributions of Claire L'Heureux-Dube (Irwin Law, 2004), and Calling for Change: Women, Law and the Legal Profession (University of Ottawa Press, 2006).