B.A., magna cum laude, Boston College,
1975
J.D., New York University, 1978
Before joining the faculty in 1988, Professor Murphy was
on the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center and was in private
practice with a Baltimore law firm specializing in employment and family
law. Her prior experience also includes three years as managing attorney
of Community Law Offices in the District of Columbia and three years
as an appellate litigator for the federal government. In addition to
her teaching responsibilities, Professor Murphy has served as director
of clinical education at the School of Law since 2000.
Professor Murphy has published several articles on family and children’s
issues in the Cornell Law Review, Hofstra Law Review, North Carolina
Law Review, the ABA Family Law Quarterly and several other journals.
She is the recipient of numerous grants to conduct empirical research
to improve the legal system, including a two-year domestic violence
study funded by the National Institute for Justice. From 1990-1992,
she was the vice president of the Women’s Law Center. She has served
on the Section Council of the Maryland State Bar Association Section
on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar and chaired the section
from 1996 to 1997. In 1995, she was appointed by the attorney general
and lieutenant governor to Maryland's Family Violence Council. She is
chair of the Association of American Law School’s (AALS) Section
on Family and Juvenile Law and was appointed to the AALS Committee on
Clinical Legal Education in 1999 for a three-year term. She was recently
appointed co-chair of the American Bar Association's Committee on Clinical
and Skills Education and served as a member of the committee in 2000‚01.
She was named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 1999 and received
the law school’s Full-Time Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award in
1996. She has lectured on comparative family law at the University of
Aberdeen, Scotland and Shandong University, China. In spring 2000, she
was a visiting professor at the Washington University School of Law
in St. Louis, Missouri. Professor Murphy is a member of the District
of Columbia, Maryland, and New York bars.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Evidence Issues in Domestic Violence Civil Cases, 34 ABA
Fam. L. Q. 43 (Spring 2000) (co-authored with Jane Aiken) [reprinted
in The Best Articles Published by the ABA, 17 GP Solo 14 (2000)]
Rules, Responsibility and Commitment to Children: The
New Language of Morality in Family Law, 60 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 1111 (1999)
Legal Images of Motherhood: Conflicting Definitions From
Welfare “Reform,” Family and Criminal Law, 83 Cornell L. Rev.
688 (1998)
Lawyering for Social Change: The Power of the Narrative
in Domestic Violence Law Reform, 21 Hofstra L. Rev. 1243 (1993)
Eroding the Myth of Discretionary Justice in Family Law:
The Child Support Experiment, 70 N.C. L. Rev. 209 (1991)