Jane Campbell Moriarty, J.D.

Jane Moriarty has been a Professor of Law at the University of Akron, School of Law, since 1997, teaching Evidence, Expert Evidence, Employment Discrimination and Professional Responsibility. She was previously a Visiting Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and University of Pittsburgh School of Law. In 2009, Professor Moriarty served as a program chair for the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science & Law Symposium, “Does Forensic Science Need Fixing?” at Duquesne University.  Today, she continues to serve as a consultant to the Institute. In Fall, 2008, she chaired the Neuroscience, Law and Government Symposium held at The University of Akron.

Professor Moriarty received her Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Boston College, where she was awarded the Bapst Philosophy Medal. She received her Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Boston College Law School, where she served as Managing Editor of the Boston College Third World Law Journal. Before 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 has authored 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, and has 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 2011), and recently published Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence in the U.S. Courts 26 Behav. Sci. & L. 26 (2008).