Joanmarie Davoli

Roman Law, Death Penalty Law, Evidence, Criminal Law & Procedure, Psychiatry & Law

Joanmarie Ilaria Davoli is a tenured Associate Professor and the Co-Director of International Programs 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. As Co-Director of International Programs, Professor Davoli has developed courses in Spain, Italy and Hungary for Barry Law students. 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 the Director of the Law & Mental Illness Clinic at George Mason University, Scalia College of Law, Professor Davoli 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.