Karen Papadopoulos is Crown Counsel at the Crown Law Office – Criminal, Ministry of the Attorney General. She is a senior trial and appellate litigator, with a specialization in homicide and large-scale appeals before the Court of Appeal of Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada. Karen is the Ministry’s Lead Counsel on Miscarriage of Justice Reviews and a Director of its Appellate Advocacy course. She is also a member of the FPT Heads of Prosecution Subcommittee on the Prevention of Wrongful Convictions, Ontario’s Death Investigation Oversight Council, and the Osgoode Hall Alumni Board of Directors.
Karen received the Osgoode Hall Alumni Gold Key Award in 2023. She taught Trial Advocacy at Osgoode for nearly a decade and now teaches Evidence Law. She received her LLB from Osgoode Hall and MBA from the Schulich School of Business, and is a member of the bar in both Ontario and New York.