Emma Cunliffe

Assistant Professor

BA (University of Melbourne), LLB (Hons.) (University of Melbourne), LLM (UBC), PhD (UBC)

Tel: 604.822.1849
Office: Allard Hall, room 343
E-mail: cunliffe@law.ubc.ca

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Profile

Emma Cunliffe joined the UBC Faculty of Law in 2008, having completed her LL.M. and Ph.D. at UBC.  Professor Cunliffe won the Killam Award for Teaching Excellence and the George Curtis Memorial Award for Teaching in 2010.  She teaches criminal law and evidence in the J.D. program and research methodologies in the graduate program.
 
Professor Cunliffe's research focuses on scientific and behavioural evidence in child homicide trials; and more generally considers how courts work with expert witnesses. Together with Professor Christine Boyle, she is presently working on a SSHRC funded project on child homicide cases in Canada. Professor Cunliffe's book Murder, Medicine and Motherhood (Hart Publishing, 2011) provides a good introduction to her work. In addition, she is conducting a survey of expert evidence in the B.C. Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, with the benefit of funding from the Law Foundation of B.C.

Courses

• Evidence Law
• Criminal Law and Procedure
• Methodologies in Law and Policy

Research Fields

• Expert evidence
• Fact determination
• Legal methodologies
• Women and criminal law

Representative Published Works

• Murder, Medicine and Motherhood (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011).
• “Ambiguities: Law, Morality, and Legal Subjectivity in H.L.A. Hart's The Concept of Law” in Maria Drakopoulou (ed.) Reading Law, Reading Women (London: Glasshouse, forthcoming).
• “Infanticide: A Legislative History and Current Questions” (2009) 55 Criminal Law Quarterly 21 – 46.
• “(This is not a) Story: Using Court Records to Explore Judicial Narratives in R v. Kathleen Folbigg” (2007) 27 Australian Feminist Law Journal 71 – 95
• “Anywhere but Here: Race and Empire in the Mabo Decision” (2007) 13 Social Identities 751 - 768.
• “Writing the Circle: Judicially Convened Sentencing Circles and the Textual Organisation of Criminal Justice” (2007) 19 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 1 – 36 (with Angela Cameron).
• “Without Fear or Favour?  Trends and Possibilities in the Canadian Approach to Expert Human Behaviour Evidence” (2006) 10:4 International Journal of Evidence and Proof 280 – 315.

Publications listed on the UBC Law Library Faculty Research Publications Database