College of Law

Professor Moore received joint J.D./M.A. (philosophy) 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. Her scholarship focuses on the legal and political conditions that empower stakeholders to obtain greater transparency and accountability from criminal justice systems. Her work is informed by critical theory and long experience in capital defense and criminal justice reform research and advocacy. Since 1998, she has won some form of relief for about 80% of her capital clients. In 2006, she joined the Ohio Justice & Policy Center, a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to evidence-based justice reform. In 2007, she was awarded a Senior Justice Advocacy Fellowship by the Open Society Institute. Her project focused on improving indigent defense systems. In 2009, the Ohio Supreme Court appointed Ms. Moore to the state Public Defender Commission. In January 2011, she joined the College of Law faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor.