Professor Rich holds a B.A. from Concordia University, an LL.B./B.C.L. from McGill University and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. After graduating from McGill, she clerked for the Hon. Ian Binnie at the Supreme Court of Canada. My doctoral work, co-supervised by John Gardner and Julian Roberts, focused on philosophical questions related to corporate-entity crime, such as what it means to form an intention as a group and how to apply the criminal law’s principles of moral responsibility to non-natural persons.
She joined the law faculty at the University of Ottawa in 2019. She teaches Jurisprudence, Criminal Law and Procedure, and Sentencing Theory and Practice.
Her academic articles have appeared in Jurisprudence, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Criminal Law and Philosophy and The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence and elsewhere. Her current research interests lie in the areas of criminal law, corporate malfeasance, philosophy of law, sociology of law, sentencing, and related topics.