Jane Moriarty joined the Duquesne University School of Law in 2011, teaching Evidence, Professional Responsibility, and Scientific and Expert Evidence. She was previously a Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Research and Development at the University of Akron School of Law. As the Inaugural holder of the Carol Los Mansmann Chair in Faculty Scholarship and Associate Dean for Scholarship, she is working to encourage faculty scholarship and increase the exchange of scholarly ideas through faculty colloquia and symposia. As part of its reenergized focus on scholarship, the law school will be implementing new technology to make faculty scholarship more easily accessible. Professor Moriarty’s scholarship focuses on Expert Evidence and Professional Responsibility. She is co-author of Scientific and Expert Evidence (Aspen, 2nd ed. 2011) and was the author and editor of Psychological and Scientific Evidence in Criminal Trials (West, 1996-2006), and editor of Women and the Law (1998-2010). She has published several articles on Forensic Evidence, Neuroscience Evidence, and Expert Evidence. Jane Moriarty is a frequent speaker at judicial and CLE programs, has chaired symposia, and presented at national and international conferences. She received her B.A. in philosophy, summa cum laude, from Boston College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded the Bapst Philosophy Medal. She earned her law degree, cum laude, from Boston College, where she served as Managing Editor of the Third World Law Journal. In addition to practicing law in both Boston and Pittsburgh, Professor Moriarty was a law clerk to the Honorable Ralph J. Cappy, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and served as a law clerk to the Superior Court of Massachusetts.
Articles
"Waiving" Goodbye to Rights: Plea Bargaining and the Defense Dilemma of Competent Representation, Hastings Contitutional Law Quarterly (2011)
The proposed amendments to the ABA Criminal Justice Standards for Prosecutors and Defense Lawyers (“Proposed...
Will History be Servitude?: The NAS Report on Forensic Science and the Rule of the Judiciary, Utah Law Review (2010)
For several decades, the prosecution and its witnesses have maintained that despite little research and...
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...
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 defense.
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