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Professor Lissa Griffin is a distinguished scholar in criminal procedure, professional ethics, and evidence, with expertise spanning both domestic and comparative legal systems. She has been a member of the faculty at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 17�Թ��� for more than three decades, joining the institution in 1985 and remaining a central figure in its academic community. Deeply committed to teaching and mentorship, Professor Griffin teaches Professional Responsibility, Criminal Procedure – Adjudication, Comparative Criminal Procedure, and Evidence.

Professor Griffin is widely recognized for her scholarship on criminal procedure, comparative criminal procedure, and wrongful convictions, and she has written and presented extensively in these areas. Her work reflects a sustained engagement with the ethical dimensions of legal practice and the structural differences between legal systems across jurisdictions.

In 2022, Professor Griffin was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Málaga Faculty of Law in Spain, where she co-taught a course on Fundamental Rights in the Criminal Process alongside Spanish law professors. She has also contributed to international scholarship, including work comparing U.S. and Spanish jury systems.

Professor Griffin continues her international academic engagement as a Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University School of Law in the United Kingdom. Her global teaching and research reflect a longstanding commitment to examining criminal justice systems across legal traditions.

Before entering academia, Professor Griffin gained extensive practical experience in both criminal and civil litigation. She began her legal career in criminal defense practice, followed by work in the criminal appeals division of The Legal Aid Society. She later practiced in civil litigation, handling complex matters including asbestos-related mass tort insurance disputes and medical malpractice appeals on behalf of hospitals and physicians.

• 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 , 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)
• , 30 Georgetown J. Leg. Ethics 301 (Spring 2017) (with Ellen R. Yaroshefsky)
• , 4 British J. Amer. Legal Studies 619 (2015)
• , 21 William & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 1153 (2013)
• , 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