David L. Gregory, the Dorothy Day Professor of Law, has taught
at the St. John’s University School of Law since August, 1982. He
was tenured in 1985, and promoted to full professor in 1986. He was
appointed the Kenneth Wang Research Professor of Law for the
1987-88 academic year. In August, 2006, he was appointed the
inaugural chairholder of the Dorothy Day Professorship. Prior to
joining the St. John’s Law faculty in 1982, Professor Gregory was
an equal employment opportunity counselor with the Postal Service,
a labor relations representative with Ford Motor Company, and an
attorney with a prominent management labor and employment law firm
in Detroit.
He often serves as a media commentator on labor, employment, and
constitutional law issues, regularly appears on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN,
CNBC, FOX and CSPAN television programs, and is frequently quoted
in the New York Times and other major newspapers. He is the
co-author of Labor-Management Relations and the Law (Foundation
Press, 1999), and the editor of Labor and the Constitution (Garland
Press, 1999) and of Labor Law (N.Y.U. and Dartmouth Presses, 1993),
a contributing author for the treatise How Arbitration Works
(American Bar Association and BNA Press, 5th and 6th Edition and
supplements) and a chapter editor and author for the
treatise, Discipline and Discharge in Arbitration (American Bar
Association and BNA Press, 2nd Edition, forthcoming, 2008).
He has over two hundred academic and professional publications,
including more than one hundred articles and book reviews in
leading law journals, including those of Duke, Vanderbilt, Texas,
Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Boston College, Boston University, Tulane,
George Washington, Georgia, William and Mary, Washington and Lee,
Fordham, Villanova, Loyola, and St. John’s. His research has
been supported twice by the AFL-CIO Fund for Labor Studies at the
University of Michigan Law School.
In 1998, his was a prize-winning paper for the St. John’s
Vincentian Center for Church and Society. In 1999, he
received the St. John’s University Founder’s Day Award. In
2004 (Inaugural Award) and 2006, he received the Student Bar
Association’s Faculty Advisor and Mentor of the Year Award.
Professor Gregory is faculty advisor to the St. John’s Labor
Relations and Employment Law Society. He has also been faculty
advisor to the Federalist Society (1992 founding of the Chapter at
St. John’s—2007), the Irish Law Students (2000-2007), and the
Catholic Law Students Society (1996-2000). In 2008, he
received the University's Faculty Outstanding Achievement
Award.
He has lectured at the law schools of Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame,
Illinois, Villanova, Montana, Baylor, Santa Clara, Stetson, Brigham
Young, St. Thomas, and Capital Universities, and at University
College, Dublin, Ireland, the Pontifical University of the Holy
Cross, Rome, the Jesuit Curia, Rome, Queen Mary University of
London, New York University, Fordham University, Marquette
University, College of the Holy Cross, De Paul University, the
University of Dayton, Mount Sinai Medical School, Molloy College,
City University of New York, State University of New York, the New
York City Police Academy, and the Catholic Worker. He has
been a visiting adjunct professor at the University of Colorado,
Brooklyn, Hofstra, and New York Law Schools, 1992-1998. In
1997, he was a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute
Department of Law in Florence, Italy.
Professor Gregory is a member of the American Bar Foundation
(limited to one-third of one percent of the lawyers in the United
States), American Law Institute, Who’s Who in American Law,
the Society of Policy Scientists, the Fellowship of Catholic
Scholars, the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, Catholic
Scholars for Worker Justice, the Michigan, New York, and American
Bar Associations, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New
York (Labor and Employment Law, Arbitration, Civil Rights, and
Employee Benefits Committees). He has been the Chairperson of
the Labor and Employment Law (1996) and Employment Discrimination
Sections (2000) of the Association of American Law Schools, and
Chair of the Law School Liaisons Committee of the Executive
Committee of the Labor Law Section of the New York State Bar
Association (1994-2001).
He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, and he is
on the Labor and Employment Arbitrator Panels of the American
Arbitration Association, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service, the New York State Public Employment Relations Board, the
New York City Office of Collective Bargaining, and Nassau County,
New York and the Civil Service Employees Association. He is
also a designated arbitrator on many private and public sector
labor contracts.
He teaches a dozen different labor, employment, and
constitutional law courses, concentrating especially on Labor Law,
Advanced Labor Law, Employment Law, and Employment Discrimination.
He has also taught Public Sector Labor and Employment Law, Labor
and Employment Arbitration, Constitutional Law, Constitutional
Theory, Negotiations, and Jurisprudence.
He has authored the first comprehensive law review articles ever
published on Catholic social teaching on labor, on Dorothy Day and
the Catholic Worker movement, and on Blessed Frederic Ozanam, the
founder of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. See, e.g.:
Catholic Labor Theory and the Transformation of Work, 45 Washington
and Lee Law Review 119-157 (1988); Catholic Social Teaching on
Work, 49 Labor Law Journal 912 (1998); Dorothy Day’s
Lessons for the Transformation of Work, 14 Hofstra Labor Law
Journal 57 (1996); Dorothy Day, Workers’ Rights and Catholic
Authenticity, 26 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1371 (1999); Blessed
Frederic Ozanam: Building the Good Society, 3 St. Thomas Law
Journal 21 (2005). Since 2001, he has served as General Counsel pro
bono to the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
Professor Gregory has co-chaired many major international
conferences, including the Transatlantic Perspectives on Labor
Conference at the University College Dublin Law School in July,
2000, the national conference of the religiously-affiliated law
schools at St. John’s in July, 2000, the Transatlantic Perspectives
on Alternative Dispute Resolution Conference at the University of
London in July, 2006, and, on October 26-27, 2007, the fifteenth
annual conference of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists at
St. John’s.
Professor Gregory received his B.A. cum laude from the Catholic
University of America in Washington, D.C. in 1973, where he was a
Basselin Scholar (full scholarship) in the Honors Program of the
School of Philosophy. His M.B.A. in labor relations is from
the Wayne State University Graduate School of Business, 1977, and
his J.D. magna cum laude is from the University of Detroit School
of Law, 1980. He did his graduate work in law at the Yale
University Law School, where he earned his LL.M. in 1982 and the
Doctorate in the Science of Jurisprudence, the highest degree in
law, J.S.D., in 1987. (Current as of March 15, 2008)