Schulich School of Law
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4R2 | +1 (902) 494-3495

Elaine Craig

 

B.A. (Criminology)(Univ of Alberta); LL.B(Dal); LL.M(Yale); J.S.D.(Dal) 

Telephone: (902) 494-1005
E-mail: elaine.craig@dal.ca

Biography:

 

Assistant Professor, (Schulich School of Law, 2010); Trudeau Scholar (2007-2010); Part-time Faculty Member (Schulich School of Law, 2007-2010)

 

Teaching Subjects:

 

Constitutional Law, Evidence Law, Gender, Sexuality and Law, Tort Law.

 

Awards:

  • Dalhousie University Doctoral Thesis Award for the Humanities - 2010/11
  • Dalhousie Law Students’ Society and Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching - 2010
  • Dalhousie Student Union Award for Teaching Excellence in the Faculty of Law – 2007
  • Dalhousie University Medal in Law – 2004

Publications:

 

Books:

  • Elaine Craig, Troubling Tensions: Towards A Legal Theory of Sexual Integrity (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011) forthcoming, fall 2011.

Articles:

  • Elaine Craig, “Sex Work By Law: Bedford’s Impact on Municipal Approaches to Regulation of the Sex Trade” (forthcoming, fall 2011) Review of Constitutional Studies.
  • Elaine Craig, “The Relevance of Delayed Disclosure To Complainant Credibility In Cases of Sexual Offence” (2011) 36(2) Queen’s Law Journal 551.  
  • Elaine Craig, “Converging Feminist and Queer Legal Theories: Family Feuds or Family Ties?” (2010) 28 Windsor Yearbook of Access To Justice 1.
  • Elaine Craig, “Section 2(b) Advertising Rights On Government Property: Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, A New Can of Worms and the Liberty Two-Step?” (2010) 33 Dalhousie Law Journal 1.
  • Elaine Craig, “Ten Years After Ewanchuk The Art of Seduction is Alive and Well: An Examination of the Mistaken Belief in Consent Defence” (2009) 13 Canadian Criminal Law Review 3.
  • Elaine Craig, “Laws of Desire: The Political Morality of Public Sex” (2009) 54 McGill Law Journal 3. 
  • Elaine Craig, “Re-interpreting The Criminal Regulation of Sex Work in Light of Labaye,” (2008) 1 Canadian Criminal Law Review 327.
  • Elaine Craig, “Family as Status in Doe v Canada: Constituting Family Under Section 15 of the Charter” (2007) 20 National Journal of Constitutional Law 197.
  • Elaine Craig, “Trans-phobia and the Relational Production of Gender” (2007) 18(2) Hastings Women’s Law Journal 101.
  • Elaine Craig, “ ‘I DO’ Kiss and Tell: The Subversive Potential of Non-Normative Social Sexual Expression From Within Cultural Paradigms” (2004) 27 Dalhousie Law Journal 403.

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