CALGARY LECTURE: Elaine Craig

Mount Royal University Library, 74 Mt Royal Cir SW, Calgary, AB
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Elaine Craig, author of Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession, will give a lecture at Mount Royal University. The event is presented by the Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies.

Elaine Craig is associate professor in the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In this thorough evaluation of the legal culture and courtroom practices prevalent in sexual assault prosecutions, Elaine Craig provides an even-handed account of the ways in which the legal profession unnecessarily - and sometimes unlawfully - contributes to the trauma and re-victimization experienced by those who testify as sexual assault complainants. Gathering conclusive evidence from interviews with experienced lawyers across Canada, reported case law, lawyer memoirs, recent trial transcripts, and defence lawyers’ public statements and commercial advertisements, Putting Trials on Trial demonstrates that - despite prominent contestations - complainants are regularly subjected to abusive, humiliating, and discriminatory treatment when they turn to the law to respond to sexual violations.