Jane Moriarty will workshop her abstract (linked below) at this Law & Neuroscience Works in Progress session.

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BIO: Jane Campbell Moriarty is the Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship, the Carol Los Mansmann Chair in Faculty Scholarship and Professor of Law at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University, where she teaches Evidence, Professional Responsibility, and Expert Evidence. She has also taught Law & Neuroscience, Remedies, Employment and Disability Discrimination, and other courses. Her scholarship focuses on scientific evidence, neuroscience and law, and professional responsibility. Her publications include a casebook, Scientific and Expert Evidence (Aspen, 2020, 3d ed.)(with John M. Conley), a treatise, Giannelli, Imwinkelried, Roth & Moriarty, Scientific Evidence (6th ed., 2020)(with annual supplements), and a chapter, Neuroimaging Evidence in the United States, in LAW AND MIND: AT THE INTERSECTION OF LAW AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES (EDS. BARTOSZ BROZEK, FRANCIS SHEN, NICOLE VINCENT, AND JAAP HAGE, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2021) She is the author or co-author of several articles, including most recently:

  • The Inscrutability Problem: From First Generation Forensic Science to Functional Neuroimaging, 60 DUQ.L. REV. 227 (2022)(Symposium Article in Death of Eyewitness Testimony and Rise of the Machine)
  • Jane Campbell Moriarty & Daniel D. Langleben, Who Speaks for Neuroscience? Neuroimaging Evidence and Courtroom Expertise, 68 CASE WES. L. REV. 783 (2018)(invited symposium honoring Paul C. Giannelli)
  • Deceptively Simple: Framing, Intuition, and Judicial Gatekeeping of Forensic Feature Comparison Method Evidence, 86 FORDHAM L. REV. 1687 (2018)(invited written symposium that followed the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules at Boston College Law School).
  • Seeing Voices: Potential Neuroscience Contributions to a Reconstruction of Legal Insanity, 85 FORDHAM L. REV. 101 (2016)(invited as part of Fordham’s Criminal Law and Neuroscience Symposium)
  • Moriarty, J.C., Langleben, D.D., and Provenzale, J.M., Brain Trauma, PET Scans, and Forensic Complexity, 31 BEHAV. SCI. & L. 701-720 (2013)(invited submission)(science and law peer reviewed)
  • Langleben, D.D. and Moriarty, J.C., Using Brain Imaging for Lie Detection: Where Science, Law, and Policy Collide, 19 PSYCH., PUB. POL’Y & LAW 222 (2013)(science and law peer reviewed)
  • Bruce A. Green and Jane Campbell Moriarty, Rehabilitating Lawyers: Perceptions of Deviance and its Cures in the Lawyer Reinstatement Process, XL FORDHAM URB. L. J. 139 (2012)(invited Symposium)

Moriarty has also written articles about behavioral and forensic science evidence, the Salem witchcraft trials, and violence against women. In the last few years, much of her work has involved the burgeoning field of neuroscience and law. Moriarty is a frequent speaker on scientific evidence, neuroscience and law, and legal and judicial ethics and served as president of the Evidence Section of the Association of American Law Schools.

Moriarty has twice received (2022) and (2016) the John E Dr. John and Liz Murray Award for Exemplary Faculty Scholarship.

During her career, she was named Professor of the Year (Akron Law) and awarded the Excellence in Teaching award (Duquesne Law). A contributor to Black’s Law Dictionary, Moriarty has been included in Who’s Who in America, and has received awards for her scholarship. She was a visiting professor at both Case Western University School of Law and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and a Distinguished Visitor at Stetson Law School.

Moriarty received a B.A. from Boston College, summa cum laude, where she was awarded the Bapst Philosophy Medal and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She graduated, cum laude, from Boston College Law School. She served as a law clerk to the Superior Court of Massachusetts and to Ralph J. Cappy, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. In 2021, she received her M.A. in Health Care Ethics from Duquesne University. In 2010, she attended Neuroscience Bootcamp at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Neuroscience and Society.

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