This paper seeks to determine what the law of sexual assault in the early twentieth century illustrates about the similarity and distinctiveness of Canadian and Australian legal traditions.
Constance Backhouse is a Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950 (1999), which was awarded the 2002 Joseph Brant Award by the Ontario Historical Society, and Petticoats and Prejudice: Women and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada (1991), which was awarded the 1992 Willard Hurst Prize in American Legal History by the (U.S.) Law and Society Association. In 1999, she received the Bora Laskin Human Rights Fellowship.
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada. Ce projet est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada.