
Education:
- B.A., University of Notre Dame
- M.A., Yale University
- M.Phil., Yale University
- Ph.D., Yale University
- J.D., Stanford Law School
Bio:
Professor Griffin is the inaugural holder of the Larry and Joanne Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics, and teaches constitutional law and torts as well as legal ethics.
Professor Griffin holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. She has been a visiting professor at the George Washington University Law School, the University of Alabama School of Law, the University of Utah College of Law, and Georgetown University Law Center, and has held research fellowships at the Harvard University Program in Ethics and the Professions as well as the Emory University School of Law Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion. Prior to joining the UH faculty, she clerked for the Honorable Mary M. Schroeder of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and was an assistant counsel in the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility, which investigates professional misconduct by federal prosecutors. Professor Griffin was elected to the American Law Institute in 2002. Recent publications about the ethics of whistleblowers include "Watch Out for Whistleblowers," in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, "Bohatch v. Butler & Binion," in the book Ethics Stories, and "Whistleblowing in the Business World," in Enron: Corporate Fiascos and Legal Implications.
adopted casebooks in the field.
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