Position in Faculty
Senior Lecturer

Degrees Held
A.B. Brown University, 1982; J.D. Northeastern University, 1986; LL.M.
Temple University, 1997

Before joining the faculty at Wollongong, Molly Townes O'Brien was an
Associate Professor of Law at the University of Akron School of Law where she taught Evidence, Trial Advocacy and Criminal Law.  From 1997 through 2001 she was the Director of Advocacy Skills Programs at Emory Law School.

A graduate of Brown University and Northeastern University School of Law, she 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. 

Molly is an academic fellow to the International Society of Barristers, a fellow of Akron University's Center for Constitutional Law, and co-chair of the Clinical and Skills Education Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.  She also served on the Ohio Supreme Court Task Force on Jury Service. 

Research Interests
Molly writes on issues relating to education law and trial practice.

Teaching Commitments 2006
LLB/LAW 304 Criminal Law and the Process of Justice
LLB 301 Evidence

Contact Details
Phone (02) 4221 4656
Fax (02) 4221 3188
Email: molly@uow.edu.au