Elaine Craig

Professor of Law, Dorothy Killam Foundation Fellow


Email: elaine.craig@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1005
Mailing Address: 
Room 318, Weldon Law Building, 6061 University Ave
PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Evidence
  • Sexual assault law
  • Criminal law ethics
  • Constitutional law
  • Feminist legal theory

Education

  • BA (Criminology) (Alberta)
  • LLB (Dalhousie)
  • LLM (Yale)
  • JSD (Dalhousie)

Teaching

  • Constitutional Law (LAWS 2062)
  • The Law of Sexual Offences (LAWS 2307)
  • Clinical Advocacy Law and Policy: Responding to Sexualized Violence
  • Gender, Sexuality and the Law (LAWS 2207)

Selected awards & honours

  • 2021: President’s Research Excellence Award for Research Impact – Dalhousie University
  • 2019: Royal Society of Canada – Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists – Class of 2019
  • 2019: Canadian Law and Society Association Book Prize (W. Wesley Pue Prize) 
  • 2019: Spirit of Barbara Schlifer Award - Barbara Schlifer Commemorative Clinic
  • 2010-11: Dalhousie University Doctoral Thesis Award for the Humanities 
  • 2009-10: Dalhousie Law Students' Society and Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • 2007: Dalhousie Student Union Award for Teaching Excellence in the Faculty of Law
  • 2004: Dalhousie University Medal in Law

Selected publications

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