Perry Moriearty receives Association of American Law Schools’ 2016 Emerging Clinician Award

[June 10, 2016]   Attorney Perry Moriearty, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, has been awarded the Association of American Law Schools’ 2016 Emerging Clinician Award.

She teaches and publishes in the areas of criminal law and race and the law, as well as co-directing the school’s Child Advocacy and Juvenile Justice Clinic.

The award, the nation’s most prestigious honor for clinical teachers, is given annually to an “emerging clinician” (one who has specialized in clinical education for 10 years or fewer) who has demonstrated a commitment to teaching and achieving social justice, a passion for providing legal services and access to justice to individuals and groups most in need, and service to the cause of clinical legal education. Clinical legal education is a teaching approach that provides guided hands-on legal experience to law school students and services to various clients.

Professor Moriearty is the granddaughter of Jim Moriearty, niece of Pam Moriearty, and cousin of Jim Grimaldi of Lincoln and of Lane Grimaldi of Mahomet, and the daughter of Scott Moriearty of Cambridge, MA.

[Pam Moriearty]