Announcing the 2021 Dispute Resolution Advancement Award Winners
Avital Mentovich , a Professor at the University of Haifa’s School of Criminology, J.J. Prescott , the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and Orna Rabinovich...
Nation’s Premier Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition Innovates and Succeeds Virtually
Last week, over three days, law students on 34 teams came together from homespun courtrooms across the country and, along with 90 preliminary round judges and brief graders and 25 U.S. federal judges...
Making Her First Court Appearance Virtually in a Pandemic a St. John’s Law Student Changes a Life
As she walked into the Law School building in early March, Sam Gagnon ’21 experienced a bit of a time warp. About a year ago, as a student in the Law School’s in-house Child Advocacy Clinic , she was...
Law School’s Coalition for Social Justice Leads Black History Month Celebration
Michael Eric Dyson, Fredera Mareva Hadley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Annette Gordon-Reed, and Mark Anthony Neal are luminaries in academia and public intellectual life. Mary Francis Berry, Kimberlé...
Law School Launches Alumnae Leadership Council
Rose F. DiMartino '81 (third from right) with Dean Michael A. Simons and St. John's Law students and alumnae at Celebrating Women, a Women's Law Society special event she hosted in 2018 When Rose F...
St. John’s Law Team Wins International Baseball Arbitration Competition
It wasn’t how Alexander Zedlovich '22 had pictured it. But there he was, standing alone in his home’s unheated basement office, in front of a computer screen, making his case virtually to a panel of...
A Moment to Center on Our Values as a Law School
Below is a message that Dean Michael A. Simons shared with St. John's Law students in the wake of the violent protests at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, January 6, 2021...
Restaurant Industry’s Pandemic Distress is Deeply Personal for Andreas Koutsoudakis ‘21LL.M.
The heartfelt remembrances and expressions of sympathy poured in last March as news spread that COVID-19 had claimed the life of 59-year-old Andreas Koutsoudakis, Sr., the longtime New York City...
St. John’s Law Students, Faculty, and Staff Help to Bridge the Digital Divide
Eleven-year-old KV* couldn’t contain her excitement. She sat down with her family’s new laptop right away, figured out how it worked, and showed her 13-year-old sister, CV, how to use it for school...
St. John’s Law Welcomes Three New Faculty Members
Several years ago, the St. John’s Law faculty launched a bold strategic plan anchored by twin goals of academic excellence and student achievement. The plan’s success is evident across key measures...