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Scholarly Life at St. John's Law

At St. John's Law, we believe that scholarship is a central part of the life of a law school. That belief animates the scholarly programs we host and our faculty's impressive scholarly output.

Through conferences, colloquia, and workshops, we bring leading legal scholars to the Law School throughout the academic year. Our Visiting Jurist Series provides a unique forum where faculty and students engage with influential jurists. Our academic centers offer opportunities to explore topics of particular interest to our faculty, including civil rights and economic justice, race and law, alternative dispute resolution, international and comparative law, law and religion, bankruptcy, and labor law.

Our faculty members come from diverse personal, professional, and academic backgrounds, and many enjoy wide recognition in their fields. They maintain the Law School's commitment to scholarship by authoring influential books, treatises, and articles in almost every legal discipline, and their work is published in top journals, by prestigious academic presses, and through popular media outlets. 

Faculty Highlights

Here is a sampling of recent the St. John's Law faculty activities and achievements:

Publications

Professor Robin Boyle’s co-authored article, "Merging the Bench, Bar, and Law Schools: How a Student Scholars Program Achieves Professional Identity Through Scholarly Writing, Mentorship, and Presentation," has been published in the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law's UMKC Law Review. The article spotlights the Student Scholars Program the co-authors coordinate through the Federal Bar Association’s Eastern District of New York Chapter at their respective law schools.

"Dividing Trademark Use” is the latest paper from Professor Jeremy Sheff, who co-directs our Intellectual Property Law Center. It looks at the "complicated and in many ways confused" topic of use through the lens of two recent U.S. Supreme Court cases, Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC and Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc. The paper, which will be published in the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts.

Field Work

Professor John Q. Barrett gave the Constitution Day lecture at Duquesne University (13:00 mark). His topic was Justice Robert H. Jackson and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Path to Brown v. Board of Education. Professor Barrett is a biographer of Hon. Robert H. Jackson, who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1941-1954. Justice Jackson was one of the nine justices who decided unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that public school racial segregation is unconstitutional.

As this Queens Chronicle story details, Professor Tyler Rose Clemons participated in a recent Constitution Day forum on The Evolution of the U.S. Constitution — A Constitution Day Look Back and Forward presented by the Historical Society of the New York Courts in conjunction with Queens Family Court and King Manor Museum.

Professor Elissa Germaine and Professor Christine Lazaro, who lead the Law School’s in-house Securities Arbitration Clinic, participated in the Practising Law Institute’s Securities Arbitration 2024 program. Professor Lazaro moderated a panel on Reg BI - Have Arbitrations Changed in the Wake of the New Standard of Care and Professor Germaine participated on the panel Staying Ahead of the Curve: Hot Topics and Future Trends.

To learn more about scholarly life at St. John's Law, please read the Faculty Focus blog produced by Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship Eva E. Subotnik and follow us on social media.