Associate Professor of Law Jane Campbell Moriarty has been with The University of Akron School of Law since 1997. She currently teaches Evidence, Expert Evidence, Employment Discrimination and Professional Responsibility. Professor Moriarty received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Boston College where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and awarded the Bapst Philosophy Medal. She earned her J.D., cum laude, from Boston College Law School, where she served as managing editor of the Boston College Third World Law Journal. Prior to joining the Akron Law faculty, Professor Moriarty practiced law in Boston and Pittsburgh and clerked for The Honorable Ralph J. Cappy, Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Professor Moriarty is author of numerous publications including Expert and Scientific Evidence: Cases and Materials (Aspen Publishers, with Professor John M. Conley) and Misconvictions, Science and the Ministers of Justice 86 Nebraska Law Review 1 (2007). She was the recipient of the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award in 2002. Professor Moriarty is currently working on a book for NYU Press entitled, Misconvictions: When Law and Science Collide, (forthcoming 2009) and has recently published Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence in the U.S. Courts 26 Behave. Sci. & L. 26 (2008). She is chairing a conference on Neuroscience, Law and Government for fall 2008, to be held at The University of Akron.
Articles
Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence in the U.S. Courts, Journal of Behavioral Sciences & the Law (2008)
This article explores the admissibility of neuroimaging evidence in U.S. courts, recognizing various trends in...
“Misconvictions,” Science and The Ministers of Justice, Nebraska Law Review (2007)
DNA evidence has exonerated over two hundred wrongfully convicted defendants in the last several years,...
Forensic Science: Grand Goals, Tragic Flaws, and Judicial Gatekeeping, Judges' Journal (2005)
In the last decade, a number of scientists have published articles and testified in court,...
“While Dangers Gather”: The Bush Preemption Doctrine, Battered Women, Imminence and Anticipatory Self-Defense, New York University Review of Law and Social Change (2005)
Since the Bush Administration issued its controversial Preemption Doctrine, which claims to permit the United...
Wonders of the Invisible World: Prosecutorial Syndrome and Profile Evidence in the Salem Witchcraft Trials, Vermont Law Review (2001)
The primary aims of this Article are to deconstruct the evidence from the Salem witchcraft...
Books
Contributions to Books
"While Dangers Gather": The Bush Preemption Doctrine, Battered Women, Imminence and Anticipatory Self-Defense, Women and the Law (2007)
Introduction and overview, The Role of Mental Illness in Criminal Trails (2001)
Volume 1 The history of mental illness in criminal cases.
Volume 2 The insanity...