Perry Moriearty

Brown University, B.A.
New York University, J.D.

Clinical Professor Perry Moriearty joins the clinical faculty in 2008 with expertise in clinical legal education, civil litigation, and juvenile justice. She teaches in the Civil Practice and Child Advocacy Clinics and writes in the areas of constitutional law, juvenile justice, and race and the law.

Before joining the Law School faculty, she taught in the Civil Litigation Clinic at the University of Denver, which specializes in landlord-tenant, wage and hour, workers' compensation, and domestic violence civil protection order matters. She also taught in the Juvenile Justice Clinic at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, which represents children charged with delinquency and criminal offenses.

Professor Moriearty received a B.A. with honors in English and American Literature from Brown University and a J.D. from New York University. She then spent five years as an associate with Ropes & Gray in Boston, specializing in civil litigation, labor and employment, and white collar criminal defense matters. Next, she worked for the Juvenile Defense Network, a project of the juvenile division of the public defender's office focused on training juvenile defenders throughout Massachusetts. Since 2003, she has served as an independent fact finder for Harvard College, investigating and advising the administration on the resolution of serious, student disciplinary matters.

Professor Moriearty has been active in pro bono work throughout her career, representing clients in a variety of civil rights, political asylum, immigration, criminal, delinquency, and capital appeals cases. She was a Public Interest Law Fellow at the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society in Manhattan, was a member of the board of directors of a California nonprofit organization serving at-risk youth (Fresh Lifelines for Youth), and worked closely with several other legal services and grassroots organizations assisting underserved juvenile populations. She was actively involved in the passage of several pieces of legislation benefiting indigent constituents in both Massachusetts and Colorado.

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