Emma Cunliffe

Emma Cunliffe is a professor of law at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the operation of racial and gender bias in the criminal legal system, with a particular interest in the role played by expert witnesses. A Killam prize–winning teacher and researcher and member of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund Legal Program Committee, Dr Cunliffe has worked on several significant cases involving Indigenous women in the criminal legal system, including R v Barton. Her books include Murder, Medicine and Motherhood (Hart Publishing, 2011) and To Ensure That Justice Is Done: Essays in Memory of Marc Rosenberg (Thomson Reuters, 2017, co-edited with Benjamin Berger and James Stribopoulos). She is also author and co-author of many scholarly papers on expert evidence, forensic science and medicine, Charter principles, gender, and anti-Indigenous bias in the criminal legal system.