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Jane Campbell Moriarty is the Carol Los Mansmann Chair in Faculty Scholarship Emerita and Professor of Law Emerita at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University, where she continues to teach Evidence and an Expert Evidence simulation. She formerly taught Professional Responsibility, Law & Neuroscience, Remedies, Employment and Disability Discrimination, and other courses. Her scholarship focuses on scientific evidence, neuroscience and law, and professional responsibility.

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. She is the co-author of the treatise, Giannelli, et al, Scientific Evidence (6th edition, 2020) and a textbook, Scientific and Expert Evidence (3d ed. 2021), several chapters, and nearly two dozen law review articles, published in Fordham Law Review, Hastings Con. Law Quarterly, Utah Law Review, and several other journals. 

Moriarty has twice received (2022) and (2016) the Dr. John E. and Liz Murray Award for Exemplary Faculty Scholarship. In 2023, she received the inaugural Thomas R. Kline School of Law Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in the fields of Evidence and Professional Responsibility. During her career, she was named Professor of the Year (Akron Law) and won the Excellence in Teaching award from the student body (Duquesne Law). A contributor to Black's Law Dictionary, Moriarty has been included in Who's Who in America and has had an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale Hubbell for more than 25 years. 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, serving as the managing editor of the B.C. Third World L. Rev.  She was a law clerk for the Superior Court of Massachusetts and for the Honorable 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.

Education

  • J.D., Law, Boston College Law School, 1983
  • B.A., Philosophy, Boston College, 1980
  • M.A., Health Care Ethics, Duquesne University, 2021

 

 

School

About

SUMMER
Evidence

FALL
Evidence

SPRING
Expert Evidence Simulation

Treatises

GIANNELLI, IMWINKELRIED, ROTH, MORIARTY & BEETY, SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE (6th ed. 2020)(Three Volumes, Lexis/Nexis); 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 Supplements

Fifth Edition and Supplements to the Fifth Edition (2013—2019)

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL TRIALS (Clark Boardman Callaghan/Thomson/West, 1996) (two volumes, annual supplements 1997-2006).

Casebook

JOHN M. CONLEY AND JANE CAMPBELL MORIARTY, SCIENTIFIC AND EXPERT EVIDENCE (3d ed. 2020, Aspen/Wolters Kluwer) (first edition, 2007; second edition, 2011).

Editor

WOMEN AND THE LAW (Thomson/West) (1998-2010)(annual editions)

Editor/overview author

THE ROLE OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN CRIMINAL TRIALS: INSANITY & MENTAL INCOMPETENCE (three volumes in the CONSTITUTIONAL CONTROVERSIES series)(Routledge Press, 2001)

Reference Guide on Forensic Identification Evidence, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Fourth Edition (National Research Council; Federal Judicial Center, 2024) with co-authors Valena Beety and Andrea Roth (forthcoming, 2025)

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)

Langleben, D.D., Willard, D., & Moriarty, J. C. Detecting Deception in J. R. SIMPSON (ED.), NEUROIMAGING IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY: FROM THE CLINIC TO THE COURTROOM. CHICHESTER: WILEY AND SONS (2012)

Book Series Editor

BLITZ, M., BUBLITZ, C., & MORIARTY, J.  NEUROSCIENCE, LAW, AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR (PALGRAVE MCMILLAN, 2015--)

Expert Testimony:  Admissibility Rules, Standards, and the Social Determinants of Health, White Paper, October 7, 2024, Northeastern University School of Law, Center for Health Policy and Law

Hysteria Redux:  Gaslighting in the Age of Covid, 15 ConLawNOW 65 (2024)
Unmasking Public Health, Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law, February, 2023

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 WESTERN 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)

Jane C. Moriarty and Marisa M. Main, “Waiving” Goodbye: Plea Bargaining and the Defense Dilemma of Competent Representation, 38 HASTINGS CON. L. QUART. 1029 (2011)(Invited Symposium)

“Will History Be Servitude?” The NAS Report on Forensic Science and the Role of the Judiciary, 2010 UTAH L. REVIEW 299 (2010)(Invited Symposium)

Jane Campbell Moriarty, Visions of Deception: Neuroimaging and the Search for Evidential Truth, 42 AKRON L. REV. 739 (2009)(Symposium Article)

Jane Campbell Moriarty, Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence in the US Courts, 26 BEHAV. SCI. & L. 29 (2008)(by invitation; science and law peer-reviewed)

Jane Campbell Moriarty, “Misconvictions,” Science and The Ministers of Justice, 86
NEBRASKA L. REV. 1 (2007)

Jane Campbell Moriarty, “While Dangers Gather”: The Bush Preemption Doctrine, Battered Women, Imminence and Anticipatory Self-Defense, 30 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC.
CHANGE 1 (2005)

Jane Campbell Moriarty and Michael J. Saks, Forensic Science: Grand Goals, Tragic Flaws & Judicial Gatekeeping, 44 ABA JUDGES’ JOURNAL 16 (2005)(invited submission)

Jane Campbell Moriarty, “Wonders of the Invisible World”: Prosecutorial Syndrome and Profile Evidence in the Salem Witchcraft Trials, 26 VT. L. REV. 43 (2001)

Scholarship in Progress
Expertise, Knowledge, and Error (for March, 2026 Symposium)
Off-Label Neuroimaging (for October, 2025 Symposium)

  • Appearing as a Legal Commentator in Netflix series Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan (Sept. 21, 2021)
  • Evaluating the "task-at-hand" with Neuroscience Evidence: A Blueprint for Analysis
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Evaluating the "task-at-hand" with Neuroscience Evidence: A
    Blueprint for Analysis Neuroscience and the Law Symposium (February 2020).
  • Deconstructing Reliability-as-Applied
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Deconstructing Reliability-as-Applied, Neuroscience and Law Panel,
    Association of American Law Schools' Annual Meeting (January 2020).
  • Neuroscience as Evidence
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Neuroscience as Evidence, University of Pennsylvania Center for
    Neuroscience & Society 10th Anniversary Neuroscience Boot Camp Conference (August 2019).
  • A 2020 Vision of Criminal Prosecution and Defense (Prosecuting the Mentally Ill in the Age of Neuroscience)
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Discussion Group: A 2020 Vision of Criminal Prosecution and
    Defense (Prosecuting the Mentally Ill in the Age of Neuroscience), Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference ("SEALS") Criminal Law & Procedure Workshop (July, 2019).
  • Recent Developments in the Legal Application of Neurological and Behavioral Science
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, John Martin Conley and Robin Conley Riner, Recent Developments in the Legal Application of Neurological and Behavioral Science, CLE at Festival of Legal Learning (2018).
  • Judicial Gatekeeping of Forensic Science Feature-comparison Evidence
    Jane Moriarty, Judicial Gatekeeping of Forensic Science Feature-comparison Evidence, symposium at Judicial Conference Federal Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules, Boston College Law School, Newton MA (Oct. 27, 2017).
  • Symposium on Forensic Expert Testimony, Daubert and Rule 702
    Jane C. Moriarty, Symposium on Forensic Expert Testimony, Daubert and Rule 702, presentation at Deceptively Simple, Forensic Science Matching and Judicial Gatekeeping (Oct. 2017).
  • A Sea Change: Neuroscience Evidence, Privacy, Law & Constitutional Frontiers
    Jane C. Moriarty, A Sea Change: Neuroscience Evidence, Privacy, Law & Constitutional Frontiers, presentation at Cambridge University (August 2017).
  • Athletes, Veterans, and Neuroscience: A Symposium on Traumatic Brain Injury and Law
    Jane C. Moriarty, Athletes, Veterans, and Neuroscience: A Symposium on Traumatic Brain Injury and Law (Apr. 2017).
  • Who Speaks for Neuroscience?
    Jane C. Moriarty, Who Speaks for Neuroscience? presentation at Stanford Law School BioLaw LaPaLooza Symposium (April 2017).
  • Neuroscience and Law
    Moriarty, J. C., Neuroscience and Law, presentation to Pain Research Network, Pittsburgh, PA (2017).
  • Behavioral Science and the Law: A Critical Assessment of Recent Developments
    J. M. Conley, Jane C. Moriarty, and R. C. Riner, Behavioral Science and the Law: A Critical Assessment of Recent Developments, presentation at North Carolina Court of Appeals: Appellate Training: New & Emerging Legal Issues for Our North Carolina Court of Appeals (Dec. 2016).
  • When Justice Seasons Mercy - Prosecutorial Ministers of Justice
    Jane C. Moriarty, When Justice Seasons Mercy - Prosecutorial Ministers of Justice, presentation at Duquesne Center for the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Roundtable on Mercy (Nov. 2016).
  • Mental Health and the Law
    Daniel Kunz, Jane Campbell Moriarty, William Caye, Edward Mulvey, Allan Pass, Katherine Ramsland, Kathleen Sekula, Michael Weiner, and Bruce Wright, Mental Health and the Law, CLE at 16th Annual Forensic Science and Law Symposium (October 20-21, 2016).
  • Turning a Blind Eye: Prosecutorial Ethics and Expert Evidence
    Jane C. Moriarty, Turning a Blind Eye: Prosecutorial Ethics and Expert Evidence, presentation as part of Miller-Becker Center for Professional Responsibility's Lecture Series on "Prosecutor, Ethics, and Promoting Justice" (Oct. 2016).
  • Patients, Doctors, and Chronic Pain: Preliminary Thoughts About Legal Issues Arising From the CDC Guidelines
    Jane C. Moriarty,  Patients, Doctors, and Chronic Pain: Preliminary Thoughts About Legal Issues Arising From the CDC Guidelines, presentation at Chronic Pain Research Consortium Annual Retreat and 5th Anniversary (June 2016).
  • Neuroscience Contributions to a Legal Reconstruction of the Insanity Defense
    Jane C. Moriarty, Neuroscience Contributions to a Legal Reconstruction of the Insanity Defense, presentation at Criminal Behavior and the Brain: When Law and Neuroscience Collide (Feb. 2016).
  • A True History of Detecting Deception in Criminal Cases: The Past as Prologue for the Future of Neuroscience Lie Detection
    Jane C. Moriarty, A True History of Detecting Deception in Criminal Cases: The Past as Prologue for the Future of Neuroscience Lie Detection, presentation at Criminal Justice Ethics Schmooze at Fordham University School of Law (June 2015).
  • Preliminary Thoughts on the Effects of Heuristics and Cognitive Bias in Judicial Decisions About Forensic Science Evidence
    Jane C. Moriarty, Preliminary Thoughts on the Effects of Heuristics and Cognitive Bias in Judicial Decisions About Forensic Science Evidence (Apr. 2015).
  • Judicial Decisions About Forensic Science Evidence: Contributing to the Concerns About the Death Penalty
    Jane C. Moriarty, Judicial Decisions About Forensic Science Evidence: Contributing to the Concerns About the Death Penalty, Symposium on Criminal Sentencing and Death Penalty Reform (Apr. 2015).
  • Legal and Ethical Considerations for Forensic Science Evidence
    Jane C. Moriarty, Legal and Ethical Considerations for Forensic Science Evidence, presentation at Is Forensics Getting Fixed? The State of the Profession Five Years After the NAS Report (2015).
  • Joint Defense and Common Interest Agreements: Legal and Ethical Considerations
    Jane C. Moriarty, Joint Defense and Common Interest Agreements: Legal and Ethical Considerations, Dickie McCamey Commercial Litigation Presentation CLE on legal ethics (Nov. 2014).
  • Losing Faith: The Ministers of Justice and the Prosecutorial Mindset
    Jane C. Moriarty, Losing Faith: The Ministers of Justice and the Prosecutorial Mindset. Legal Ethics at a Time of Regulatory Change, presentation at International Ethics Conference VI (July 2014).
  • Losing Faith: The Ministers of Justice and the Prosecutorial Mindset
    Jane C. Moriarty, Losing Faith: The Ministers of Justice and the Prosecutorial Mindset, presentation at Faculty Roundtable on Criminal Justice Ethics (June 2014).
  • Be-friending the Jury: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Using Social Media to Investigate Juries
    Jane C. Moriarty, Be-friending the Jury: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Using Social Media to Investigate Juries, CLE for Dickie-McCamey Chilcote Commercial Litigation Program on Game Changing Issues in Commercial Litigation (Oct. 2013).
  • Fair Witness? Neuroscience, Law, and the Obsession with Deception
    Jane C. Moriarty, Fair Witness? Neuroscience, Law, and the Obsession with Deception, presentation at Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law (SEAL) Conference (Apr. 2013).
  • The Ethical Implications of Using Social Media
    Jane C. Moriarty, The Ethical Implications of Using Social Media, presentation at Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Mar. 2013).
  • Neuroscience & Evidence: The Science, the Scholarship, the Courtroom, and the Classroom
    Jane C. Moriarty, Neuroscience & Evidence: The Science, the Scholarship, the Courtroom, and the Classroom, presentation at Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting (Jan. 2013).
  • Use and Abuse of Neuroimaging in the Courtroom Consensus Conference
    Jane C. Moriarty, Use and Abuse of Neuroimaging in the Courtroom Consensus Conference, presentation at Science, Law, and Ethics Conference (Dec. 2012).
  • Be-friending the Jury: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Using Social Media to Investigate Juries
    Jane C. Moriarty, Be-friending the Jury: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Using Social Media to Investigate Juries, CLE for Dickie-McCamey Chilcote Commercial Litigation Program on Game Changing Issues in Commercial Litigation (Oct. 2012).
  • Scientific Evidence
    Paul C. Giannelli, Edward J. Imwinkelried, Andrea Roth and Jane Campbell Moriarty, Scientific Evidence (5th ed., 2012) (two vols., supp. 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016).
  • Are You Lying Now? Deception, Technology, and the Law
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Are You Lying Now? Deception, Technology, and the Law (forthcoming 2016).
  • Psychological and Scientific Evidence in Criminal Trials
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Psychological and Scientific Evidence in Criminal Trials (1996) (two vols., annual supplements 1997-2006).