Rate My Professor Lisa Dufraimont

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.