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Biography

Jane Campbell Moriarty is 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.

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 Dr. John E. 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.

Education

  • J.D., Law, Boston College Law School, 1983
  • B.A., Philosophy, Boston College, 1980

 

School

About

  • Evidence
  • Expert Evidence Simulation
  • Scientific and Expert Evidence
    John M. Conley and Jane Campbell Moriarty. Scientific and Expert Evidence (Wolters Kluwer, 3rd edition, 2021)
  • Scientific Evidence
    Paul C. Giannelli, Edward J. Imwinkelried, Andrea Roth and Jane C. Moriarty, Scientific Evidence (LexisNexis, 5th edition, 2012) and Annual Supplement (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).
  • Scientific and Expert Evidence
    John M. Conley and Jane Campbell Moriarty, Scientific and Expert Evidence with teacher's manual (2007, Second Edition 2011).
  • Women and the Law
    Jane Campbell Moriarty (Ed.), Women and the Law (Thomson/West, 2009).
  • Mental Illness in Criminal Trials
    Jane Campbell Moriarty (Ed.), Mental Illness in Criminal Trials (Routledge Press, 2001).
  • Psychological and Scientific Evidence in Criminal Trials
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Psychological and Scientific Evidence in Criminal Trials, two volumes (Clark Boardman Callaghan/Thomson/West, 1996).
  • Neuroimaging Evidence in US Courts
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Neuroimaging Evidence in US Courts, in Law and Mind: A Survey of Law and the Cognitive Sciences 370-411 (Bartosz Brożek et al. eds., 2021).
  • Brain Imaging of Deception
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, D.D. Langleben and D. Willard, Brain Imaging of Deception, in Neuroimaging in Forensic Psychiatry: From the Clinic to the Courtroom 217-236 (Joseph R. Simpson ed., 2012).
  • Deceptively Simple: Framing, Intuition, and Judicial Gatekeeping of Forensic Feature-Comparison Methods Evidence
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Deceptively Simple: Framing, Intuition, and Judicial Gatekeeping of Forensic Feature-Comparison Methods Evidence, 86 Fordham L. Rev. 1687-1708 (March 2018). [SSRN]
  • Athletes, Veterans, and Neuroscience: A Symposium on Traumatic Brain Injury and Law
    Jane Moriarty, Foreword: Athletes, Veterans, and Neuroscience: A Symposium on Traumatic Brain Injury and Law, 56 Duquesne Law Review 1 (2018). [SSRN]
  • Who Speaks for Neuroscience? Neuroimaging Evidence and Courtroom Expertise
    Jane Campbell Moriarty and Daniel D. Langleben, Who Speaks for Neuroscience? Neuroimaging Evidence and Courtroom Expertise, 68 (3) Case Western Reserve L.R. 783-804 (2018). [SSRN]
  • Seeing Voices: Potential Neuroscience Contributions to a Reconstruction of Legal Insanity
    Jane C. Moriarty, Seeing Voices: Potential Neuroscience Contributions to a Reconstruction of Legal Insanity, 85 Fordham L. Rev. 101 (2016). [SSRN]
  • Brain Trauma, PET Scans and Forensic Complexity
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Daniel D. Langleben, and James Provenzale, Brain Trauma, PET Scans and Forensic Complexity, 31 Behav. Sci. L. 701-720 (2013). [SSRN]
  • Using Brain Imaging for Lie Detection: Where Science, Law, and Policy Collide
    Daniel D. Langleben and Jane Campbell Moriarty, Using Brain Imaging for Lie Detection: Where Science, Law, and Policy Collide, D.19 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y L. 222 (2013). [SSRN]
  • Rehabilitating Lawyers: Perceptions of Deviance and Its Cures in the Lawyer Reinstatement Process
    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). [SSRN]
  • 'Waiving' Goodbye to Rights: Plea Bargaining and the Defense Dilemma of Competent Representation
    Jane Campbell Moriarty and Marissa E. Main, "Waiving" Goodbye: Plea Bargaining and the Defense Dilemma of Competent Representation, 38 Hastings Const. L.Q. 1029 (2011) (Invited Symposium). [SSRN]
  • Will History Be Servitude?: The NAS Report on Forensic Science and the Role of the Judiciary
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Will History Be Servitude?: The NAS Report on Forensic Science and the Role of the Judiciary, 2010 Utah L. Rev. 299 (2010) (Invited Symposium). [SSRN]
  • Visions of Deception: Neuroimages and the Search for Truth
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Visions of Deception: Neuroimages and the Search for Truth, 42 Akron L. Rev. 739 (2009) (Symposium Article). [SSRN]
  • Foreword to the Neuroscience, Law & Government Symposium
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Foreword to the Neuroscience, Law & Government Symposium, 42 Akron L. Rev. 681 (2009). [SSRN]
  • Rape, Affirmative Consent to Sex, and Sexual Autonomy: Introduction to the Symposium
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Rape, Affirmative Consent to Sex, and Sexual Autonomy: Introduction to the Symposium, 41 Akron L. Rev. 839 (2008). [SSRN]
  • Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence in the U.S. Courts
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence in the U.S. Courts, 26 Behav. Sci. L. 29 (2008). [SSRN]
  • 'Misconvictions', Science, and the Ministers of Justice
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, 'Misconvictions', Science, and the Ministers of Justice, 86 Neb. L. Rev. 1 (2007). [SSRN]
  • Forensic Science: Grand Goals, Tragic Flaws, and Judicial Gatekeeping
    Jane Campbell Moriarty and Michael J. Saks, Forensic Science: Grand Goals, Tragic Flaws, and Judicial Gatekeeping, 44 ABA J. J. 16 (2005). [SSRN]
  • The Reliability of Latent Print Individualization: Brief of Amici Curiae Submitted on Behalf of Scientists and Scholars by the New England Innocence Project, Commonwealth v. Patterson
    David M. Siegel, Mark Acree, Robert Bradley, Simon A. Cole, David L. Faigman, Stephen E. Fienberg, Paul C. Giannelli, Lyn Haber, Ralph Norman Haber, Donald Kennedy, Jennifer Mnookin, Joelle Anne Moreno, Jane Campbell Moriarty, D. Michael Risinger, John R Vokey, and Sandy Zabell, The Reliability of Latent Print Individualization: Brief of Amici Curiae Submitted on Behalf of Scientists and Scholars by the New England Innocence Project, Commonwealth v. Patterson, 42 Crim. L. Bull. (2006). [SSRN]
  • Forensic Science: Grand Goals, Tragic Flaws & Judicial Gatekeeping
    Jane Campbell Moriarty and Michael J. Saks, Forensic Science: Grand Goals, Tragic Flaws & Judicial Gatekeeping, 44 ABA J. J. 16 (2005).
  • 'While Dangers Gather': The Bush Preemption Doctrine, Battered Women, Imminence and Anticipatory Self-Defense
    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). [SSRN]
  • Wonders of the Invisible World Prosecutorial Syndrome and Profile Evidence in the Salem Witchcraft Trials
    Jane Campbell Moriarty, Wonders of the Invisible World Prosecutorial Syndrome and Profile Evidence in the Salem Witchcraft Trials, 26 Vt. L. Rev. 43 (2001). [SSRN]
  • The Jurisprudence of Desegregation: Understanding the Recent Busing Developments
  • Moriarty, Jane Campbell, The Jurisprudence of Desegregation: Understanding the Recent Busing Developments, 3 B. C. Third World L. J. 109-135 (1982).
  • 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)
  • 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).