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
Neuroscience, Law & Government: Foreword to the Symposium, Akron Law Review (2009)
The legal and legislative systems have begun to rely on neuroscience in various types of...
Visions of Deception: Neuroimaging and the Search for Evidential Truth, Akron Law Review (2009)
The use of science in the search for truth poses consistent evidentiary problems of definition,...
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...
Rape, Affirmative 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”...
“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,...
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...