Lisanne Adam

Lisanne is a Lecturer in Law at the School of Law. Prior to transitioning to full‑time academia, she worked in legal practice at law firms in Amsterdam and Sydney. She has also been affiliated with the University of Sydney, and in 2018 she was appointed Honorary Associate of the School of Psychology to strengthen her collaboration with forensic psychology scholars examining psychological dimensions of criminal procedures.

 

Her research focuses on criminal law and procedure, coercion in the criminal process, (undercover) policing, evidence law, and the interaction of criminal procedure with technology and forensic psychology, with a particular emphasis on how these factors shape and affect access to justice. Her work has been published in Australian and international law and social science journals and has been featured on media platforms globally.

 

Lisanne completed her PhD at RMIT in 2023, where she examined the occurrence of, and contributing factors to, involuntary false confessions and wrongful convictions. She has critically analysed the admissibility of confession evidence and the exercise of judicial discretions to exclude involuntary or otherwise unreliable confessions.

Lisanne is also an Australian lawyer admitted in the Supreme Court of New South Wales.