Lissa Griffin

Professor Lissa Griffin is an expert in Criminal Procedure, Professional Ethics and Evidence from both domestic and comparative perspectives. In 2022, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Malaga Faculty of Laws in Malaga, Spain and is currently a Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University Faculty of Laws in Birmingham, UK. Prof. Griffin has written and presented extensively on professional ethics and on wrongful convictions and comparative criminal procedure..

• BA, University of Michigan
• Law Clerkship 1973–1977

• Criminal Procedure-Adjudication LAW 676
• Criminal Procedure-Investigation LAW 675
• Evidence LAW 649
• Professional Responsibility LAW 625
• Skills Workshop: Law[yering] & Science LAW 684GG

View all of Professor Griffin’s publications on SSRN, Digital Commons or download her CV (PDF).

• Comparative Judicialism, Popular Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law: The US and UK Supreme Courts, 77 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online 323 (2021) (with Thomas Kidney)
• International Legal Cooperation and the Principle of Equality among Nations, 23 (13) Juris Poiesis 576 (2020)
• Judging During Crises: Can Judges Protect the Facts? 50 Chi. Loyola L. Rev. 857 (2019) (symposium issue in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Chicago 7 trial)
• Ministers of Justice and Mass Incarceration, 30 Georgetown J. Leg. Ethics 301 (Spring 2017) (with Ellen R. Yaroshefsky)
• Forensic Evidence and the Court of Appeal for England and Wales, 4 British J. Amer. Legal Studies 619 (2015)
• International Perspectives on Correcting Wrongful Convictions: The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, 21 William & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 1153 (2013)
• Pretrial Procedures for Innocent People: Reforming Brady, 56 N.Y.L.S. L. Rev. 969 (2012)
• New York Evidence with Objections (NITA) (2018) (with Michael B. Mushlin)
• The Law School Experience: Law, Legal Reasoning, and Lawyering (2000) (with Bennett L. Gershman)
• Multidefendant Criminal Cases: Federal Law and Procedure (West Group 1998) (with Stacy Caplow)

Fulbright Scholar, University of Malaga, Malaga Spain (2022)

Criminal Procedure, Comparative Criminal Procedure, Professional Ethics, Evidence, Comparative Ethics, Comparative Evidence, Law and Science