The legal defence of extreme intoxication is not inherently anti-feminist: JD student Vanshika Dhawan, 3L

In an op-ed published in the Globe and Mail Feb. 14, JD student Vanshika Dhawan, 3L, explains how the system was never built to support survivors of sexual violence.

Intoxication and sexual and gender-based violence remain heavily correlated, but these can and should be addressed by Parliament without being overly broad, for instance by exclusively targeting alcohol intoxication, legislating the defence of toxic psychosis, and/or creating a new offence – as the Supreme Court itself suggested in 1995. Addressing this issue need not come at the expense of survivors.

Read the full op-ed in the Globe and Mail