Joanmarie Davoli

Joanmarie Ilaria Davoli is a tenured Associate Professor at Barry University School of Law. Professor Davoli’s research centers on issues arising in the criminal justice system, including competency, insanity, psychiatric evidence, capital punishment, Medicaid’s IMD exclusion, and separation of powers. Her scholarship intersects with numerous doctrinal areas, including Evidence, Criminal Procedure and Criminal Law. Professor Davoli teaches, or has taught, Evidence, Forensic Evidence, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Advanced Criminal Procedure, Mental Illness Law, & Comparative Death Penalty Law. Prior to joining the Barry Law faculty, Professor Davoli served as a tenured professor at Florida Coastal School of Law, and as a faculty member in the legal aid clinic at Notre Dame Law School in Indiana. As a faculty member at George Mason University, Scalia College of Law, Professor Davoli directed the Law & Mental Illness Clinic and served as the Acting Director of the Law & Psychiatry Center. Prior to entering the Academy, Professor Davoli worked as an assistant staff attorney at the Death Penalty Resource Center in Columbia, South Carolina. She was also a public defender in Charleston, South Carolina and Fairfax, Virginia, representing criminal defendants on charges ranging from minor misdemeanors to capital murder.