Lisa Kern Griffin
Professor of Law
Lisa Kern Griffin's scholarship and teaching focus on evidence, constitutional criminal procedure, and federal criminal justice policy. Her recent article, "Stories in Adjudication," won the AALS Criminal Justice Section's award for best paper by a junior scholar. She also recently authored "Criminal Lying, Prosecutorial Power, and Social Meaning," which was published in the California Law Review, and "Compelled Cooperation and the New Corporate Criminal Procedure," which appeared in the New York University Law Review. Some of Professor Griffin's other publications concern political corruption prosecutions, the Supreme Court's Confrontation Clause jurisprudence, and the construction of mens rea in fraud and obstruction cases. Her current project explores the relationship between Fifth and Sixth Amendment jurisprudence in terms of the treatment of accuracy as an animating principle.
Professor Griffin joined the Duke Law faculty in 2008 and was the recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award. Prior to coming to Duke, she taught at the UCLA School of Law. Professor Griffin graduated from Stanford Law School, where she served as President of the Stanford Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. After law school, she clerked for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States. Professor Griffin also spent five years as a federal prosecutor in the Chicago United States Attorney's Office.
