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Lisa Kern Griffin is the Candace M. Carroll and Leonard B. Simon Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, where she has served on the faculty since 2008. She previously taught at UCLA School of Law and held the Daniel P.S. Paul Visiting Professorship of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School in 2024. From 2021 to 2023, she served as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at Duke Law.
Her educational background includes a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she was President of the Stanford Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. She served as a federal prosecutor in the Chicago United States Attorney’s Office and clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Griffin's research centers on constitutional criminal procedure, evidence law, and federal criminal justice, with specific focus on the criminalization of dishonesty, police interrogation practices, witness impeachment through personal history, narrative construction in trials, and the influence of popular culture on criminal justice perceptions. Her work critically examines how legal institutions navigate truth, deception, and procedural accuracy.
Her scholarly output demonstrates consistent engagement with the tension between legal formalism and narrative truth-seeking, particularly in evidentiary contexts and interrogation settings. Recent work increasingly analyzes how cultural representations of criminal justice shape public understanding and legal practice.
Her honors include Duke Law's Distinguished Teaching Award and A. Kenneth Pye Award for Excellence in Education. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Griffin actively contributes to legal practice through Supreme Court amicus briefs, service as legal advisor to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and congressional testimony regarding public corruption prosecutions and fraud statutes. Her public commentary appears in The Atlantic, Slate, SCOTUSblog, and The New York Times.
