Brief Biographical Information
Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Richmond School of Law
Douglas Stripp Missouri Professor of Law Emeritus
University of Missouri at Kansas City
Professor Moenssens did pre-legal studies in his native Belgium. He received his J.D. cum laude in 1966 from the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he was Associate Editor of the Chicago-Kent Law Review and won several scholarship awards. He received his LL.M. from Northwestern University in 1967. A member of the Illinois and Virginia bars, Professor Moenssens was a professor of law at IIT-Chicago-Kent College of Law from 1967-1973, and professor of law at the University of Richmond, Virginia from 1973-1995. The University of Richmond Trustees elected him Professor Emeritus in 1996. During the academic years 1993-1995 he was visiting professor at West Virginia University in Morganstown, in the William J. Maier Jr. Chair. He was invited to join the faculty of the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) in 1996 as the Douglas Stripp Professor of Law, and took emeritus status at the end of 2002.
He is the author, senior co-author, or editor of more than 15 books, among which are Cases and Comments on Criminal Law (in its sixth edition) and "Scientific Evidence in Civil and Criminal Cases," now in its fourth edition. As a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, trial lawyer, and consultant on forensic evidence issues, he has also lectured internationally at continuing legal education and scientific evidence conferences. Professor Moenssens has taught Criminal Law, Advanced Trial Practice (Trial Advocacy IIR), Scientific and Expert Opinion Evidence, Applied Forensic Evidence Seminar, and Wrongful Convictions, and Current Issues on Criminal Justice (seminar) at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Law.
