Fregine Sheehy is the Harold A. Stevens Visiting Assistant Professor at Cardozo School of Law, where she teaches Evidence Law.

Professor Sheehy’s research focuses on evidence, critical legal theory, criminal law, and anti-discrimination law. Her work aims to unveil the immense power of evidence law, and its impacts on marginalized litigants. She is completing her doctoral studies at Osgoode Hall Law School where she examines the operationalization of evidence law in race-based discrimination cases at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. Her doctoral research was generously supported by the Harry W. Arthurs Fellowship and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

Professor Sheehy is a bilingual Canadian lawyer. She completed her Master in Laws in Legal Theory at New York University and clerked at the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario. She received her J.D. and her Bachelor of Social Sciences in Sociology from the University of Ottawa.

As part of her doctoral studies Professor Sheehy taught at York University in Toronto. She previously summered at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, interned at Canada’s Parliament, and worked for Canada’s Senate, where she co-produced an award-winning podcast on law and society. She also worked at NYU’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice as a junior research scholar.