James Stribopoulos teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence and Evidence and Proof: Theory and Practice in Osgoode's JD Program, while also serving as Chair of Admissions, Director of Mooting and Co-Director of the Professional LLM in Criminal Law and Procedure. In the past, he has also served as Director of the Criminal Intensive Program, Director of Clinical Education and Editor-in-Chief of the faculty’s blog (TheCourt.ca).

Before joining Osgoode's full-time faculty in 2006, Professor Stribopoulos was formerly with the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. Prior to that, he served as an instructor at Columbia Law School, as an adjunct instructor at Osgoode, and as a full-time instructor at the Ontario Bar Admission Course. He was a nominee and finalist for teaching awards both at Columbia and the University of Alberta. In 2008, Professor Stribopoulos was awarded the Osgoode Hall Law School Teaching Award.

While on sabbatical during the 2009/2010 academic year Professor Stribopoulos was a visitor both at the Melbourne Law School and at its Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies.

Professor Stribopoulos conducts research and publishes on topics related to criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, comparative criminal procedure, the legal profession and the legal process.  He has published extensively in these areas, including a textbook (Criminal Procedure in Canada, with Steven Penney and Enzo Rondinelli (Markham: LexisNexis, 2011)), casebooks (Evidence: A Canadian Casebook, 3rd ed., with Hamish Stewart, Ronalda Murphy, Marilyn Pilkington, Steven Penney (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2011) and Criminal Law and Procedure: Cases and Materials, 10th ed., with Kent Roach, Benjamin Berger and Patrick Healy (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2010)), and collections of essays  (New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational, and International Criminal Law, with François Tanguay-Renaud (Oxford: Hart, 2012) and The Charter and Criminal Justice: Twenty-Five Years Later, with Jamie Cameron (Markham: LexisNexis, 2008)).

In 2007, along with his co-author Professor Moin Yahya, Professor Stribopoulos was awarded the Canadian Association of Law Teachers' Scholarly Paper Award.

Professor Stribopoulos completed the JSD degree at Columbia where he also obtained his LLM and graduated a James Kent Scholar. Professor Stribopoulos’ doctoral dissertation was published in three parts. In it he developed and defended a theory of constitutional interpretation for Charter cases that implicate police power.

Professor Stribopoulos’s research and teaching are informed by his extensive practical experience as a criminal trial and appellate lawyer. As an appellate lawyer, he has argued appeals regularly before the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Stribopoulos continues to maintain a small appellate court practice with a focus on Charter litigation.

Areas of interest: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Constitutional Law, Legal Profession, Legal Process, Clinical Education, Anti-Terrorism and Civil Liberties.