Rate My Professor Lisa Dufraimont

Lisa Dufraimont is a Professor and Associate Dean (Academic) at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. She joined Osgoode Hall Law School in July 2015 as an Associate Professor after serving as an Associate Professor and Acting Associate Dean (Academic) at Queen's University Faculty of Law, where she began as an Assistant Professor in 2006. She holds a J.D. from the University of Toronto, an LL.M., and a J.S.D. from Yale University. Early in her career, she clerked for the Ontario Court of Appeal from 2001 to 2002 and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2003. At Osgoode, she served as Associate Dean (Students) from July 2018 to May 2020. Her teaching excellence has been recognized with awards from Queen's University in 2011 and Osgoode Hall Law School in 2016.

Professor Dufraimont teaches and conducts research in criminal law, procedure, and evidence, with a focus on the relationship between evidence law and the jury system, psychological aspects of evidence rules, evidentiary issues in sexual assault cases, and the regulation of interrogation and confessions. She has published numerous articles in leading Canadian law journals, such as "Evidence Law and the Jury: A Reassessment" (McGill Law Journal, 2008), "Myth, Inference and Evidence in Sexual Assault Trials" (Queen's Law Journal, 2019), "Regulating Unreliable Evidence: Can Evidence Rules Guide Juries and Prevent Wrongful Convictions?" (2008), and "The Common Law Confessions Rule in the Charter Era: Current Law and Future Directions" (2008). She is co-author of Evidence: Principles and Problems, 13th edition, and Canadian Evidence in a Nutshell, 3rd edition. Dufraimont serves as Associate Editor of the Criminal Reports and is a regular contributor to the National Judicial Institute’s Criminal Essentials Eletter. She has participated in two SSHRC-funded interdisciplinary research projects, one examining the effects of jury instructions on proof beyond a reasonable doubt and another investigating the impact of language interpretation on judgments of witness credibility.