Elizabeth A Sheehy
Biographic Data
| ID | 5187338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth A Sheehy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheehy |
| SIGNATURE | SHEEHY E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ottawa University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Conversation on Feminism, Ableism, and Medical Assistance in Dying
This article explores the recent expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada and its negative implications for women with disabilities. In 2021, the government extended MAiD to people with disabilities who are not dying, which the authors contend is a modern form of eugenics. Structured as a conversation and deploying a systemic, equality-based feminist analysis, the article tracks the shifts in scope and justification for MAiD thro…
Penalizing women’s fear
This paper explores Canadian family law cases involving claims of parental alienation and of family violence from 2014–2018, reporting the data on these claims, their resolution, and their impacts upon custody and access. A close reading of those cases where both alienation and intimate partner violence claims are made reveals troubling patterns in how intimate partner violence is discounted in this context. We suggest that the rise of shared par…
Introduction to the special issue
The Merits of Restricting Provocation to Indictable Offences
Le présent article compare le processus et le contenu des réformes de la défense partielle de provocation menées en Nouvelle-Galles-du-Sud, Australie, en 2014 et au Canada en 2015. Bien que ces deux gouvernements aient adopté des lois qui limitent de la même façon l’utilisation de cette défense, l’origine de ces réformes et leurs processus sont différents. Le présent article analyse la défense réformée du point de vue de son incidence sur les tro…
Expert evidence on coercive control in support of self-defence
This article uses the transcripts from an abused woman’s trial in Canada for first-degree murder of her husband to explore the expert testimony provided by Dr Evan Stark to support a potential defence of self-defence. His evidence focused on coercive control theory and provoked extreme resistance from Crown prosecutors, such that self-defence was ultimately removed from the jury’s consideration. The trial illustrates the advantages and challenges…
Men's Groups
Groupes masculinistes
Defending Battered Women on Trial
In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that evidence of "battered woman syndrome" was admissible in establishing self-defence for women accused of killing their abusive partners. This book looks at the legal response to battered women who killed their partners in the fifteen years since Lavallee. Elizabeth Sheehy uses trial transcripts and a case study approach to tell the stories of eleven women, ten of whom…
Murder, Medicine and Motherhood
Christine Boyle (Christine): Before I say how much I admire this book, I should acknowledge that I was on Emma’s doctoral committee here at the University of British Columbia. It is a book with a dramatic subject, the possible wrongful, or unjust, conviction of Kathleen Folbigg for the serial murder of her children. 4 The trial was held in 2003 in New South Wales, Australia. Emma’s book is a tour de force, with analysis of the trial transcripts, …
Sexual Assault in Canada
Sexual Assault in Canada" is the first English-language book in almost two decades to assess the state of sexual assault law and legal practice in Canada. Gathering together feminist scholars, lawyers, activists and policy-makers, it presents a picture of the difficult issues that Canadian women face when reporting and prosecuting sexual violence. The volume addresses many themes including the systematic undermining of women who have been sexuall…
Causation, Common Sense, and the Common Law
In this article, Elizabeth Sheehy argues that Jane Doe v. Metropolitan Toronto Police, wherein the police were held accountable in law for sex discrimination in violation of women's section 15 equality rights under the Charter and for negligence in their investigation of a serial rapist, represents a high point in feminist litigation. She details the feminist knowledge, language, and strategy as well as the individual contributions by Jane Doe he…
The intoxication defense in Canada
This paper examines the impact on women — as victim/witnesses and as accused persons — of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in R v. Daviault regarding the defense of intoxication.Prior to the decision in Daviault, the defense of intoxication was available for only one class of criminal offenses: those described as specific intent offenses (defined below). The defense was therefore absolutely barred for all other offenses, including sexual as…
LegalisingJusticeForAllWomen
(1996). Legalising Justice For All Women: Canadian Women's Struggle For Democratic Rape Law Reforms. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 87-113
Regulatory crimes and the charter
Women and constitutional reform in South Africa
Canadian Feminist Perspectives on Law
This paper provides an overview of Canadian feminist literature on law, starting with a brief chronology of the development of the scholarship from the time of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (1970). The authors break the literature down into the five substantive areas most often written about: criminal law, family law, income redistribution, employment law, and legal education/legal profession. They also examine the maj…
Sexual Assault in Canada
Sexual Assault in Canada" is the first English-language book in almost two decades to assess the state of sexual assault law and legal practice in Canada. Gathering together feminist scholars, lawyers, activists and policy-makers, it presents a picture of the difficult issues that Canadian women face when reporting and prosecuting sexual violence. The volume addresses many themes including the systematic undermining of women who have been sexuall…
Penalizing women’s fear
This paper explores Canadian family law cases involving claims of parental alienation and of family violence from 2014–2018, reporting the data on these claims, their resolution, and their impacts upon custody and access. A close reading of those cases where both alienation and intimate partner violence claims are made reveals troubling patterns in how intimate partner violence is discounted in this context. We suggest that the rise of shared par…
Introduction to the special issue
Canadian Feminist Perspectives on Law
This paper provides an overview of Canadian feminist literature on law, starting with a brief chronology of the development of the scholarship from the time of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (1970). The authors break the literature down into the five substantive areas most often written about: criminal law, family law, income redistribution, employment law, and legal education/legal profession. They also examine the maj…
The Merits of Restricting Provocation to Indictable Offences
Le présent article compare le processus et le contenu des réformes de la défense partielle de provocation menées en Nouvelle-Galles-du-Sud, Australie, en 2014 et au Canada en 2015. Bien que ces deux gouvernements aient adopté des lois qui limitent de la même façon l’utilisation de cette défense, l’origine de ces réformes et leurs processus sont différents. Le présent article analyse la défense réformée du point de vue de son incidence sur les tro…
Expert evidence on coercive control in support of self-defence
This article uses the transcripts from an abused woman’s trial in Canada for first-degree murder of her husband to explore the expert testimony provided by Dr Evan Stark to support a potential defence of self-defence. His evidence focused on coercive control theory and provoked extreme resistance from Crown prosecutors, such that self-defence was ultimately removed from the jury’s consideration. The trial illustrates the advantages and challenges…
Men's Groups
Canadian Feminist Perspectives on Law
This paper provides an overview of Canadian feminist literature on law, starting with a brief chronology of the development of the scholarship from the time of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (1970). The authors break the literature down into the five substantive areas most often written about: criminal law, family law, income redistribution, employment law, and legal education/legal profession. They also examine the maj…
Women and constitutional reform in South Africa
Regulatory crimes and the charter
The intoxication defense in Canada
This paper examines the impact on women — as victim/witnesses and as accused persons — of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in R v. Daviault regarding the defense of intoxication.Prior to the decision in Daviault, the defense of intoxication was available for only one class of criminal offenses: those described as specific intent offenses (defined below). The defense was therefore absolutely barred for all other offenses, including sexual as…
LegalisingJusticeForAllWomen
(1996). Legalising Justice For All Women: Canadian Women's Struggle For Democratic Rape Law Reforms. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 87-113
Causation, Common Sense, and the Common Law
In this article, Elizabeth Sheehy argues that Jane Doe v. Metropolitan Toronto Police, wherein the police were held accountable in law for sex discrimination in violation of women's section 15 equality rights under the Charter and for negligence in their investigation of a serial rapist, represents a high point in feminist litigation. She details the feminist knowledge, language, and strategy as well as the individual contributions by Jane Doe he…
Murder, Medicine and Motherhood
Christine Boyle (Christine): Before I say how much I admire this book, I should acknowledge that I was on Emma’s doctoral committee here at the University of British Columbia. It is a book with a dramatic subject, the possible wrongful, or unjust, conviction of Kathleen Folbigg for the serial murder of her children. 4 The trial was held in 2003 in New South Wales, Australia. Emma’s book is a tour de force, with analysis of the trial transcripts, …
Sexual Assault in Canada
Sexual Assault in Canada" is the first English-language book in almost two decades to assess the state of sexual assault law and legal practice in Canada. Gathering together feminist scholars, lawyers, activists and policy-makers, it presents a picture of the difficult issues that Canadian women face when reporting and prosecuting sexual violence. The volume addresses many themes including the systematic undermining of women who have been sexuall…
Defending Battered Women on Trial
In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that evidence of "battered woman syndrome" was admissible in establishing self-defence for women accused of killing their abusive partners. This book looks at the legal response to battered women who killed their partners in the fifteen years since Lavallee. Elizabeth Sheehy uses trial transcripts and a case study approach to tell the stories of eleven women, ten of whom…
Men's Groups
Groupes masculinistes
Expert evidence on coercive control in support of self-defence
This article uses the transcripts from an abused woman’s trial in Canada for first-degree murder of her husband to explore the expert testimony provided by Dr Evan Stark to support a potential defence of self-defence. His evidence focused on coercive control theory and provoked extreme resistance from Crown prosecutors, such that self-defence was ultimately removed from the jury’s consideration. The trial illustrates the advantages and challenges…
The Merits of Restricting Provocation to Indictable Offences
Le présent article compare le processus et le contenu des réformes de la défense partielle de provocation menées en Nouvelle-Galles-du-Sud, Australie, en 2014 et au Canada en 2015. Bien que ces deux gouvernements aient adopté des lois qui limitent de la même façon l’utilisation de cette défense, l’origine de ces réformes et leurs processus sont différents. Le présent article analyse la défense réformée du point de vue de son incidence sur les tro…
Penalizing women’s fear
This paper explores Canadian family law cases involving claims of parental alienation and of family violence from 2014–2018, reporting the data on these claims, their resolution, and their impacts upon custody and access. A close reading of those cases where both alienation and intimate partner violence claims are made reveals troubling patterns in how intimate partner violence is discounted in this context. We suggest that the rise of shared par…
Introduction to the special issue
A Conversation on Feminism, Ableism, and Medical Assistance in Dying
This article explores the recent expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada and its negative implications for women with disabilities. In 2021, the government extended MAiD to people with disabilities who are not dying, which the authors contend is a modern form of eugenics. Structured as a conversation and deploying a systemic, equality-based feminist analysis, the article tracks the shifts in scope and justification for MAiD thro…
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Charter (3 works)