On the Passing of Beloved and Esteemed Professor Robert M. Zinman
This past weekend, as hundreds of law students competed in the Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition that he helped to launch, the St. John’s Law Community learned that beloved and esteemed...
Remembering John V. Brennan ‘63C, ‘66L, ‘93HON
Michael A. Simons, Dean and John V. Brennan Professor of Law and Ethics, and the St. John’s Law community mourn the passing of John V. Brennan, an esteemed alumnus and consummate lawyer who animated...
Laura Brancato '03 Works to Protect New York’s Most Vulnerable
As 2023 came to a close and winter set in, 92,824 people, including 33,365 children, were sleeping in New York City’s main municipal shelter system each night. Almost at historical highs, those...
Public Defender Kayla Hardesty ‘16 Helps Make History in New York’s Highest Court
Good afternoon, Your Honors, and may it please the Court. Kayla Hardesty, Cortland County Public Defenders Office, for the appellant, Michael Bay. With that brief introduction, Kayla Hardesty began...
Hon. Rowan Wilson, New York’s Chief Judge, to Speak at St. John’s Law Commencement
Hon. Rowan Wilson, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals and the State of New York, will be the Law School’s commencement speaker and honoree on Monday, May 20, 2024. The commencement exercises will...
Jelani Jefferson Exum Named Next Dean of St. John’s University School of Law
After an extensive national search, Jelani Jefferson Exum has been appointed the next dean of St. John’s Law. Currently the Dean and Philip J. McElroy Professor of Law at the University of Detroit...
Working Towards Justice Mary Johnson ‘24 Mentors Amputee Children
Do you have a job? Do you go on dates? What sports do you do? Mary Johnson happily answered those questions and others on a recent visit to Ethiopia, where she spent a week mentoring amputee children...
Environmental Justice and Human Rights Advocate Samia Shell '21C, '24L Receives the 2023 United Nations Human Rights Prize
In December, joining a distinguished group that includes Malala Yousafzai, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King Jr., St. John’s Law student Samia Shell received the UN Human Rights Prize. She was...
Former Pro Football Player Michael Catapano '21 Inspires Future Lawyers
Watching players take the field on NFL Sundays, Michael Catapano’s father would tell his young son to ask himself, “why can’t that be me?” That question became a lodestar on a career path that has...
From Near and Far Janice Robinson ‘82 Forges Connections Through Fly Fishing
In November 1994, Janice Robinson packed her fly rod and reel and traveled to Drakensburg Mountain, South Africa, one of the world’s premier fly fishing locations. It was a transformative time. Just...