Course Chairs
Emma Cunliffe — Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver
Professor Craig E. Jones, QC — Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University, Kelowna
About the Course Chairs
Emma Cunliffe BA (Melb) 1999, LLB (Hons) (Melb) 1999, LLM (UBC) 2003, PhD (UBC) 2009. Professor Cunliffe is an Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at University of British Columbia. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the National Core for Neuroethics, an interdisciplinary research group located at the UBC Hospital.
Professor Cunliffe's research analyzes the fact–determination function of courts, and particularly addresses expert scientific and medical evidence, the role of implicit stereotypes and bias in the criminal justice system, and the principles of open justice. She is the author
of Murder, Medicine & Motherhood (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011), co-author of Criminal Law & Procedure: Cases and Materials (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 11th ed. 2015), and Evidence: A Canadian Casebook (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 4th ed. 2016). Her edited collection: The Ethics of Expert Evidence is forthcoming from Routledge in late 2016. She has also published numerous articles in law journals.
An acclaimed teacher, Professor Cunliffe has received the Killam Award for Teaching Excellence and the George Curtis Memorial Award for Teaching. At UBC, she teaches evidence, criminal law, jurisprudence, and interdisciplinary research methodologies.
Craig E. Jones, QC is professor of law at Thompson Rivers University and Associate Counsel at Branch MacMaster LLP. His current research interest is in the psychology of judicial decision-making and in particular the effects of cognitive bias on judicial decisions. He has recently published two articles “The Troubling New Science of Legal Persuasion” and “Justice as Rounding Error” in the Advocates’ Quarterly and Osgoode Hall Law Journal, respectively. Professor Jones holds an LLB from UBC and a Master’s degree from Harvard Law School. Prior to his current position, he was senior counsel with the Ministry of Justice, and before that he was a litigator in private practice with a large Vancouver firm.