Professor Janet Moore’s co-authored article is now in print and can be found at Christopher Campbell, Janet Moore, Wesley Maier & Mike Gaffney, Unnoticed, Untapped, and Underappreciated: Clients’ Perceptions of their Public Defenders, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, vol. 33, pp. 751-770 (November/December 2015).
Professor Moore presented Participatory Constitutionalism at the Loyola-Chicago Law School’s Constitutional Law Colloquium on November 6, 2015.
Professor Moore has been invited to present a work-in-progress at the annual “Ethics Schmooze” at Fordham University School of Law June 8-10, 2016. This conference, which is jointly sponsored by several New York City law schools, convenes scholars with expertise in criminal law and procedure as well as in legal ethics and professionalism.
Professor Moore will be an invited speaker on her paper, Democracy Enhancement in Criminal Law and Procedure, 2014 Utah L. Rev. 543, at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law Indigent Defense Conference, which will be held in Houston, February 26-27, 2016.
Professor Moore’s work-in-progress, Participatory Constitutionalism, was accepted for presentation at the Poverty Law Conference, which will be held in Seattle, February 19-20, 2016.
Professor Moore will be an invited panelist on the topic Participatory Defense and a Client Bill of Rights at the American Bar Association’s Indigent Defense Summit, hosted by the ABA’s Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defense. The Summit will take place in San Diego, February 4-6, 2016.
Professor Moore was an invited speaker and facilitator on the topic “Creating a Defender-Driven Research Agenda,” at a meeting hosted by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association with support from Open Society Foundations in Baltimore on December 3-4, 2015. Participants included line defenders, defender managers, and social scientists, as well as representatives of funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice at the United States Department of Justice. The event resulted directly from Professor Moore’s work co-founding IDRA, the Indigent Defense Research Association, with Andrew Davies, the Research Director for New York’s state Indigent Legal Services agency. Since its inception in January, IDRA has grown to more than 100 members across the country who share an interest in conducting high-quality empirical research on public defense.
Professor Moore presented a co-authored paper, Make Them Hear You: Participatory Defense and the Struggle for Criminal Justice Reform, 78 Albany L. Rev. 1281 (2015), during a two-day symposium on indigent defense research, which took place November 18-20, 2015, at the annual conference of the American Society of Criminology in Washington, D.C.
Professor Moore, with Andrew Davies, co-authored a white paper and co-presented a webinar titled “Creating a Defender-Driven Research Agenda for the National Association for Public Defense” on November 13, 2015. The webinar and white paper are available via NAPD’s MyGideon website. More information is available at http://www.publicdefenders.us/?q=node/910 and at https://www.mygideon.org/Special:Userlogin?returntotitle=0NAPD_Online_Academy.
Professor Moore was an invited facilitator and presenter at a conference on public defense, “Quality Legal Representation: Definition, Measurement, Theory & Practice,” which was supported by the National Science Foundation, in Albany, New York on October 29-30, 2015.
Professor Moore has accepted an invitation to join a panel of national experts who are serving on a Research Advisory Committee that will assist Michigan’s new Indigent Defense Commission as it undertakes public defense reform in that state.
Professor Janet Moore, with Andrew Davies, Ph.D., accepted an invitation to facilitate the first meeting of U.S. Department of Justice Smart Defense Fellows. The Fellows are public defenders and researchers who received approximately $2.5 million in federal grants to improve public defense. Dr. Davies and Professor Moore will facilitate this meeting in Washington, D.C. on February 3, 2016. This invitation resulted from Professor Moore’s work with Dr. Davies creating IDRA, the Indigent Defense Research Association.