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Qualifications A.B. Brown University, 1982; J.D. Northeastern University, 1986; LL.M. Temple University, 1997.
Biography A graduate of Brown University and Northeastern University School of Law, Molly served as a judicial clerk in the United States District Court and the Georgia Supreme Court before practicing law in Pennsylvania as a civil litigator and then as an Assistant Public Defender. She later was an Honorable Abraham L. Freedman Teaching Fellow at Temple University. In 1997, she joined the faculty of Emory University Law School and served as the Director of Advocacy Skills Programs through 2001. Molly has also served on the faculties of the University of Akron School of Law and University of Wollongong. Her primary teaching interests are in Education Law and Policy, Evidence, Trial Advocacy, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Criminal Law.

Molly is currently an academic fellow to the International Society of Barristers, and a Research Fellow of the Constitutional Law Center at the University of Akron School of Law. Molly is former co-chair of the Clinical and Skills Education Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. She has also served on the Ohio Supreme Court Task Force on Jury Service. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of law and writes on issues relating to race, education, criminal law, and trial theory and practice.
 
Name Molly Townes O'Brien
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Tel +61 2 6125 0437
Fax +61 2 6125 0103
Email molly.obrien@anu.edu.au
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