Ruth Coffey is a lecturer in law and senior research scholar in law at Yale Law School. Coffey joined Yale Law School as a senior research scholar in law in 2020. She was appointed a recorder (part-time judge) in 2018 and sits in the Crown Court on the Midland Circuit of England and Wales hearing general crime and serious sex offense cases.
Coffey was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2004 and practiced criminal law, prosecuting and defending, in the courts in and around London. She then practiced inhouse as a government prosecutor for the U.K.’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, before being seconded to the Judicial Office within the Ministry of Justice as legal advisor on criminal law to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, working for Lord Judge and for Lord Thomas. She moved to the U.S. in 2015 and was a research fellow and lecturer on law at Harvard Law School before moving to Yale Law School.
Coffey’s paper, “Fight, flight, freeze…or lie? Rethinking the principles of res gestae evidence in light of its revival,” was published in The International Journal of Evidence & Proof.
