Christopher L. Griffin, Jr. is the Director of Empirical Policy Research at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, where he teaches Civil Procedure, Remedies, and Empirical Methods in the Law. Professor Griffin’s scholarshievaluates novel, practical ideas for enhancing access to justice. He and his colleagues primarily use randomized control trials to test the causal effects of innovative approaches to narrowing the justice gap. Most of these studies focus on the civil justice system, including the efficacy of unbundled legal services in housing court, the value of connecting survivors of intimate partner violence to civil legal aid, and the potential promise of non-lawyer models of legal services provision. Professor Griffin is also involved in randomized evaluations of criminal pretrial risk assessments. His work has appeared in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the Utah Law Review, and the William Mary Law Review. Professor Griffin received the John W. Strong Teaching Award in 2021. He holds a B.S. in International Political Economy, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where he was a John Carroll Scholar and a Beinecke Scholar; an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, where he was an Albritton Scholar; and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Policy Review