Professor of Law
Lisa Kern Griffin joined the Duke Law Faculty in 2008. She teaches in the areas of evidence and criminal law and procedure, and her scholarship focuses on federal criminal justice policy. Her current research concerns the expressive consequences of prosecutions for process crimes such as false statements, obstruction, and perjury. Professor Griffin has also written about deferred prosecution agreements in corporate fraud cases, and her recent article, "Compelled Cooperation and the New Corporate Criminal Procedure," appeared in the New York University Law Review.
Prior to coming to Duke, Professor Griffin taught at the UCLA School of Law. She graduated from Stanford Law School after receiving her B.A. and an M.A. in English from Georgetown University. At Stanford, Professor Griffin 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. Her academic interests in white collar crime and in the role of the jury stem from her experience as a federal prosecutor; she worked in the Chicago United States Attorney's Office from 1999 to 2004.