Janine Benedet, KC
Professor
LL.B. (UBC), LL.M. (Michigan) S.J.D. (Michigan)
- Office:
Allard Hall, Room 462
- Phone: 604 822 0637
- Email: benedet@allard.ubc.ca
Profile
Professor Janine Benedet joined the law school faculty in 2005 after teaching at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, where she also practiced labour and employment law. After her L.L.B. graduation from UBC she clerked for fellow UBC alumnus Justice Frank Iacobucci at the Supreme Court of Canada. That was followed by graduate studies – leading to both an LL.M. and an S.J.D. – at the University of Michigan. Professor Benedet teaches criminal law, labour law, legal ethics and the law of sexual offences. She has served as Associate Dean, Academic Affairs and Dean pro tem. She is a member of the British Columbia bar and engages in pro bono litigation in sexual violence cases.
Professor Benedet’s research focuses on legal responses to men’s sexual violence against women. Her current research considers barriers to successful criminal justice system responses to the sexual assault of women and girls, including the impact of the Charter of Rights on the evolution of sexual assault law. She also researches the use of criminal law to target sex buying and pimping. She is an Associate Editor of the Criminal Reports.
Research and Publications
To learn more about my research, please visit my PURE Research profile. You can also access my publications on the following sites:
Publications
 | Janine Benedet “Absence of Motive in Sexual Assault Cases” (2019) 55 C.R. (7th) 18-21 UBC Library Location |
 | Isabel Grant & Janine Benedet “Confronting the Sexual Assault of Teenage Girls: The Mistake of Age Defence in Canadian Sexual Assault” Full text: (2019) 97:1 Can. Bar Rev. 1-42 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons |
 | Janine Benedet “Judicial Misconduct in the Sexual Assault Trial” Full text: (2019) 52:1 U.B.C. L. Rev. 1-55 |
 | Janine Benedet “Sentencing for Sexual Offences Against Children and Youth: Mandatory Minimums, Proportionality and Unintended Consequences” Full text: (2019) 44:2 Queen's L.J. 284-314 |
 | Isabel Grant & Janine Benedet “The "Statutory Rape" Myth: A Case Law Study of Sexual Assaults against Adolescent Girls” Full text: (2019) 31:2 C.J.W.L. 266-292 Allard Research Commons |
 | Isabel Grant & Janine Benedet “Unreasonable Steps: Trying to Make Sense of R. v. Morrison” Full text: (2019) 67:2 Crim. L.Q. 14-41 UBC Library Location |
| Janine Benedet “R. v. Tweneboah-Koduah”, Case Comment (2018) 48 C.R. (7th) 288-296 UBC Library Location |
| Isabel Grant & Janine Benedet “Capacity to Consent and Intoxicated Complainants in Sexual Assault Prosecutions” (2017) 37 C.R. (7th) 375-383 UBC Library Location |
 | Isabel Grant & Janine Benedet “The Sexual Assault of Older Women: Criminal Justice Responses in Canada ” Full text: (2016) 62:1 McGill L.J. 41-78 |
| Janine Benedet “The Paper Tigress: Canadian Obscenity Law 20 Years after R v Butler Full text: (2015) 93:1 Can. Bar Rev. 1-37 UBC Library Location |
| Janine Benedet “Bedford: The Pimping Offence Should Have Been Upheld” (2014) 7 C.R. (7th) 57-58 UBC Library Location |
 | Janine Benedet & Isabel Grant “Sexual Assault and the Meaning of Power and Authority for Women with Mental Disabilities” Full text: (2014) 22:2 Fem. Legal Stud. 131-154 |
 | Janine Benedet “Sexual Assault Cases at the Alberta Court of Appeal: The Roots of Ewanchuk and the Unfinished Revolution” Full text: (2014) 52:1 Alta. L. Rev. 127-144 UBC Library Location |
 | Janine Benedet “Marital Rape, Polygamy, and Prostitution: Trading Sex Equality for Agency and Choice?” Full text: (2013) 18:2 Rev. Const. Stud. 161-187 UBC Library Location SSRN Abstract |
| Janine Benedet & Isabel Grant “More Than an Empty Gesture: Enabling Women with Mental Disabilities to Testify on a Promise to Tell the Truth” Full text: (2013) 25:1 C.J.W.L. 31-55 UBC Library Location SSRN Paper |
| Janine Benedet et al. “30th Anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: The Impact on Criminal Justice” (2012) 91 CR (6th) 71-131 UBC Library Location |
 | Janine Benedet & Isabel Grant “A Situational Approach to Incapacity and Mental Disability in Sexual Assault Law” Full text: (2012) 43:1 Ottawa L. Rev. J. 1-27 Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
 | Janine Benedet & Isabel Grant “Taking the Stand: Access to Justice for Witnesses with Mental Disabilities in Sexual Assault Cases” Full text: (2012) 50 Osgoode Hall L.J. 1-45 UBC Library Location |
| Janine Benedet “A Victim-Centered Evaluation of the Federal Sex offender Registry” Full text: (2012) 37 Queen's L.J. 437-474 UBC Library Location |
| Janine Benedet “J.A: Consent to Sexual Activity Cannot be Irrevocable” (2011) 84 C.R. (6th) 35-37 UBC Library Location SSRN Abstract |
 | Janine Benedet “The Age of Innocence: A Cautious Defense of Raising the Age of Consent in Canadian Sexual Assault Law” Full text: (2010) 13:4 New Crim. L. Rev. 665-687 Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Janine Benedet & Isabel Grant “R. v. A. (J.): Confusing Unconsciousness with Autonomy” (2010) 74 C.R. (6th) 80-85 UBC Library Location SSRN Abstract |
| Janine Benedet “The Sexual Assault of Intoxicated Women” Full text: (2010) 22:2 C.J.W.L. 435-461 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
 | Janine Benedet & Isabel Grant “Sexual Assault of Women with Mental Disabilities: A Canadian Perspective” in Clare McGlynn & Vanessa E. Munro, eds., Rethinking Rape Law: International and Comparative Perspectives Abingdon: Routledge, 2010 pp. 322-334 UBC Library Location |
 | Janine Benedet “'Welcoming the World to Vancouver': Temporary Foreign Workers on the Canada Line Construction Project” Full text: (2009-2010) 15:3 C.L.E.L.J. 541-554 UBC Library Location SSRN Abstract |
 | Janine Benedet “Paradigms of Prostitution: Revisiting the Prostitution Reference” in Kim Brooks, ed., Justice Bertha Wilson: One Woman's Difference Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008 pp. 131-152 UBC Library Location SSRN Abstract |
| Janine Benedet “Probity, Prejudice and the Continuing Misuse of Sexual History Evidence” (2009) 64 C.R. (6th) 72-73 UBC Library Location |
| Janine Benedet & Isabel Grant “Hearing the Sexual Assault Complaints of Women with Mental Disabilities: Consent, Capacity, and Mistaken Belief” Full text: (2007) 52:2 McGill L.J. 243-289 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Janine Benedet & Isabel Grant “Hearing the Sexual Assault Complaints of Women with Mental Disabilities: Evidentiary and Procedural Issues” Full text: (2007) 52:3 McGill L.J. 515-552 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
 | Janine Benedet “Pornography and Prostitution in Canada: The Dangers Ahead” in David Guinn & Julie DiCaro, eds., Pornography: Driving the Demand in International Sex Trafficking Los Angeles: Captive Daughters Media,, 2007 pp. 306-320 SSRN Abstract |
 | Janine Benedet, Patricia Hughes & Kerry Rittich “Equality in Employment” in Labour Law Casebook Group, Labour and Employment Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, 7th ed. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2004 pp. 812-912 UBC Library Location |
 | Janine Benedet “Hierarchies of Harm in Canadian Criminal Law: The Marijuana Trilogy and the Forcible 'Correction' of Children” (2004) 24 Sup. Ct. L. Rev. (2d) 217-241 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
 | Janine Benedet “Pornography as Sexual Harassment in Canada” in Reva B. Siegel & Catharine A. MacKinnon, eds., Directions in Sexual Harassment Law New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004 pp. 417-436 UBC Library Location SSRN Abstract |
| Janine Benedet, Patricia Hughes & Kerry Rittich “Statutory Regulation of Employment” in Labour Law Casebook Group, Labour and Employment Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, 7th ed. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2004 pp. 750-826 UBC Library Location |
 | Janine Benedet “Children in Pornography after Sharpe” Full text: (2002) 43:2 C. de D. 327-350 UBC Library Location |
| Janine Benedet “Legal Rights in the Supreme Court of Canada in 2000: Seeing the 'Big Picture'” (2001) 14 Sup. Ct. L. Rev. (2d) 97-109 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Janine Benedet “Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Minister of Justice: Sex Equality and the Attack on R. v. Butler©” Full text: (2001) 39:1 Osgoode Hall L.J. 187-205 UBC Library Location Allard Research Commons SSRN Paper |
| Janine Benedet “Same-Sex Sexual Harassment in Employment” Full text: (2000) 26:1 Queen's L.J. 101-141 UBC Library Location |
 | Janine Benedet “On Indecency: R. V. Jacob” (1998) 3:1 Can. Crim. L. Rev. 17-59 UBC Library Location |
 | Janine Benedet “Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Claims and the Unwelcome Influence of Rape Law” Full text: (1995) 3:1 Mich. J. Gender & L. 125-174 |
Organization Affiliations
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
Research Interests
- Criminal law and criminal justice
- Labour and employment law
- Law, gender and sexuality
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