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Dr Michelle Lawrence

Associate Research Fellow

BA (Western Ontario), LLB (UVic), LLM (Cambridge),MA (Criminology)(SFU), PhD (Criminology) (SFU)

mlawr@uvic.ca

Research Interests

Access to justice, Criminal law and evidence, Intoxication and mental disorder

Additional Professional Information

  • Director, Access to Justice Centre for Excellence  
     
  • Associate Professor, University of Victoria Faculty of Law 
     
  • Senior Associate, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform 
     
  • Barrister & Solicitor, Law Society of British Columbia 

Publications

2024

“Self-induced Extreme Intoxication: Brown and Section 33.1 of the Criminal Code” (2024) 115 SCLR 259.

Canadian Criminal Jury Instructions(Vancouver, BC: Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, 2024 Update) (with G. Ferguson and M. Dambrot). 

2023

Criminal Law: Canadian Law, Indigenous Laws & Critical Perspectives, Canadian Legal Information Institute, 2023 CanLIIDocs 316 (with B. Perrin, D. Milward & M. McCallum). 

2022

“A Canadian Perspective” in M. van der Wolf, ed, Safeguarding the Quality of Forensic Assessment in Sentencing: A Review Across Western Nations (London, UK: Routledge, 2022) (with D. Morgan).