Lisa Kerr

Dr. Lisa Kerr JD (UBC), LLM, JSD (New York University) is Associate Professor at Queen's University, where she is the Director of the Criminal Law Group and teaches courses on criminal law, evidence, sentencing and prison law.

Lisa was previously staff lawyer at Prisoners’ Legal Services in British Columbia. Her doctorate in law was completed at New York University as a Trudeau Scholar. She has served as a litigation advisor on sex worker rights to Pivot Legal Society, and on the board of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. She supports the strategic litigation work of the Queen's Prison Law Clinic.