Perry MorieartyAssociate Professor of LawBrown University, B.A. Associate Professor Perry Moriearty joined the clinical faculty in 2008 with expertise in clinical legal education, civil litigation, and juvenile justice. She teaches criminal law, race and the law, and co-directs the Child Advocacy and Juvenile Justice Clinic. She writes in the areas of constitutional law, juvenile justice, criminal law 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 continues to work closely with legal services and grassroots organizations assisting underserved juvenile populations and has been actively involved in the passage of several pieces of legislation benefiting indigent populations.
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