Isabel Grant

Isabel Grant is a Professor at the Allard School of Law specializing in criminal law. She has published extensively on violence against women including on sexual assault, criminal harassment and homicide. She is currently working on an SSHRC-funded project on the impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on sexual assault law with Professor Janine Benedet. She teaches in the areas of criminal law, homicide, sentencing and mental health law. She has also worked with disability organizations and feminist organizations on more than 20 interventions in the Supreme Court of Canada and other appellate courts. She is a member of the bar of British Columbia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Research and Publications

 To learn more about my research, please visit my PURE Research profile. You can also access my works on the following sites: 

• Allard Research Commons / bepress Legal Repository Search
• SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
• HeinOnline

• Criminal Law
• The Law of Homicide
• Principles of Sentencing
• Mental Health Law

• "Legislated Ableism: Bill C-7 and the Rapid Expansion of MAiD in Canada" (2024) 16 McGill Journal of Law and Health (forthcoming)
• "Resurrecting 'She Asked for It': The Rough Sex Defence in Canadian Courts" Alberta Law Review [forthcoming in 2023]. (with Elizabeth Sheehy and Lise Gotell)
• "The Meaning of Capacity and Consent in Sexual Assault: R. v. G.F." (2022) 70:1 Criminal Law Quarterly 78. (with Janine Benedet)
• "Non-Consensual Condom Removal in Canadian Law Before and After R. v. Hutchinson" (2021) 44:2 Dalhousie Law Journal 439-475. (with Lise Gotell)
• "The Slow Death of the Reasonable Steps Requirement for the Mistake of Age Defence" [forthcoming in 2021] Man LJ.
• "Breaking the Silence on Father-Daughter Sexual Abuse of Adolescent Girls: A Case Law Study" (2020) 32:2 Canada Journal of Women and the Law. (with Janine Benedet)
• "The Complex Legacy of R. V. Cuerrier: HIV Nondisclosure Prosecutions and Their Impact on Sexual Assault Law" (2020) 58:1 Alberta Law Review 45.
• "The Meaning of Life: A Study of the Use of Parole Ineligibility for Murder Sentencing" (2020) 52:1 Ottawa Law Review. (with Crystal Choi and Debra Parkes)
• "The "Statutory Rape" Myth: A Case Law Study of Sexual Assaults against Adolescent Girls" (2019) 31:2 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 266. (with Janine Benedet)
• "Confronting Sexual Assault the Sexual Assault of Teenage Girls: The Mistake of Age Defence in Canadian Sexual Assault Law" (2019) 97:1 Canadian Bar Review 1. (with Janine Benedet)
• "The Role of Section 718.2(a)(ii) in Sentencing for Male Intimate Partner Violence against Women" (2018) 96:1 Canadian Bar Review 158.

Publications listed on the Allard Research Portal.