Janet Moore

Professor Moore received J.D. and M.A. degrees from Duke University, an M.A. in Divinity from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in Religion from Kalamazoo College. At Duke, she served as Editor-in-Chief of Law & Contemporary Problems, the nation's first interdisciplinary law journal. She then clerked for the Honorable J. Dickson Phillips, Jr., on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She spent seven years litigating capital cases in North Carolina, winning some form of relief for approximately 70% of her clients. In 2006, she joined the Ohio Justice & Policy Center, a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to evidence-based, best-practice reform of the criminal justice system. She currently serves OJPC as Director of the Race and Justice Project, which is supported by the Ford Foundation. Professor Moore teaches in the constitutional litigation clinic.