Contact Information
The University of Akron School of Law
C. Blake McDowell Law Center
Akron, OH 44325-2901

Office: C. Blake McDowell Law Center 341
Phone: 330-972-6796
Fax: 330-258-2343
moriart@uakron.edu

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 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. 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). Her article, Misconvictions, Science and the Ministers of Justice, was selected as the 2008 Outstanding Faculty Publication by the Akron Law Alumni Association. She is chairing a conference on Neuroscience, Law and Government for fall 2008, to be held at The University of Akron.