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 Pennsylvania. 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 and in 2008, received awards from both the faculty and alumni for her
scholarship. Professor Moriarty is currently working on a book for NYU Press entitled,
MISCONVICTIONS: WHEN LAW AND SCIENCE COLLIDE, (forthcoming 2009) and recently published
Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence in the U.S. Courts 26 Behav. 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

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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...

 

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Rape, Affirative Consent to Sex, and Sexual Autonomy: Introduction to the Symposium, Akron Law Review (2008)
We may have moved in the West toward a standard in which “no means no”...
 

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“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,...

 

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Symposium Foreward: Daubert, Innocence, and the Future of Forensic Science, Tulsa Law Review (2007)

The years since Daubert have not been kind to those seeking to challenge prosecutorial expert...

 

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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,...

 

Books

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Misconvictions: When Law & Science Collide (2008)
Forthcoming 2008.
 

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Psychological and scientific evidence in criminal trials (1996)

Also author of annual supplements.

 

Contributions to Books

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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...