Professor Philip Weinberg
Professor of Law. A.B., University
of Pennsylvania; J.D., Columbia University
Professor Weinberg is the author of Environmental Law: Cases and
Materials (3dEd.) (University Press of America, 2006), co-editor of
Environmental Law and Regulation in New York (West 1996), co-author
of Environmental Impact Review in New York (Matthew Bender, 1990)
and Understanding Environmental Law (LexisNexis, 2007), and
editor-in-chief of the Macmillan Compendium: The Supreme Court
(1999). He writes the Annual Practice Commentaries for McKinney's
New York Environmental Conservation Law and has also published
numerous articles on environmental law and constitutional law.
Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Weinberg practiced
for twenty years in the New York State Attorney General's Office
and was Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Environmental
Protection Bureau. He has been actively involved in many
governmental studies and was Chair of the Freshwater Wetlands
Advisory Committee to the State Department of Environmental
Conservation and the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the
Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Professor Weinberg has chaired the New York State Bar Association's
Environmental Law Section; the Committees on Environmental Law,
International Environmental Law and Transportation Law of the New
York City Bar Association, and the Environmental Law Section of the
Association of American Law Schools. He has written and
spoken extensively on environmental issues, and appeared on
television and radio to discuss both constitutional and
environmental issues. Prof. Weinberg will teach International
Environmental Law.
Professor Ettie Ward
Professor of Law. B.A., Barnard College;
J.D., Columbia University
Before joining the law faculty at St. John’s, Professor Ward was a
litigator in a major New York law firm. While in private
practice, she litigated complex securities, labor, fraud, contract,
and other commercial cases in state and federal courts.
Professor Ward received her J.D. from Columbia University School of
Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar each year and a
member of the Columbia Law Review. She received her B.A, cum
laude, from Barnard College in three years and was on the Dean’s
List for all three years.
Professor Ward has been active in the Federal Bar Council, the
American Bar Association, the City Bar of New York, and the New
York State Bar Association. She is a currently a member of
the Program Committee of the Federal Bar Council and a Director of
the Federal Bar Foundation. She has served on the Federal
Courts, the Litigation, and the Legal Educations Committees of the
City Bar Association. She has been co-chair of various
subcommittees and has been a member of the Alternative Dispute
Resolution Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s
Litigation Section and has served on the Alternative Dispute
Resolution Committee of the New York State Bar Association.
She has recently joined the Executive Board of the AALS Dispute
Resolution Section.
Other professional activities have included participation as a
member of the Advisory Group to the United States Delegation to the
Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments and
membership on Second Circuit Committees.
In addition to her bar and professional association activities,
Professor Ward is a practicing mediator who currently serves as a
pro bono mediator in federal district court. She has
previously done pro bono state court mediations as
well.
She teaches and writes primarily in the areas of federal civil
procedure and court process. Professor Ward teaches Civil
Procedure, Federal Courts, International Litigation Procedure,
Federal Practice, Torts, and Introduction to Law.
Professor Mark L. Movsesian
Professor of Law. B.A., Harvard College;
J.D., Harvard Law School
Professor Movsesian joined the St. John’s faculty in 2007 as
the Frederick A. Whitney Professor of Contract Law. He
graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and magna cum laude
from Harvard Law School. In law school, he was an editor of
the Harvard Law Review and a recipient of the Sears Prize, awarded
to the two highest-ranking students in the second-year class.
Following law school, he clerked for Fourth Circuit Chief Judge
Harrison L. Winter, served as an attorney-advisor in the Office of
Legal Counsel at the United States Department of the Justice, and
then clerked for Justice David H. Souter of the Supreme Court of
the United States.
Professor Movsesian writes in contracts and international
law. His articles have appeared in the Harvard, North
Carolina, and Washington & Lee Law Reviews, the Harvard
International Law Journal, the Virginia Journal of International
Law, and many others. He has been a visiting professor at
Notre Dame and Cardozo Law Schools and has delivered papers at
numerous workshops in the United States and Europe. Before
starting at St. John's, he was the Max Schmertz Distinguished
Professor of Law at Hofstra, where he was named Teacher of the Year
a number of times, most recently in 2006. He teaches
Contracts, International Law courses, and Comparative Law &
Religion.
Professor C. Mario Russell
Adjunct Professor. B.A., Haverford
College; J.D., University of Maryland School of Law
Professor Russell teaches and supervises the Refugee and Immigrant
Rights Clinic at St. John’s Law School. He conducts and
supervises federal administrative and U.S. Court of Appeals
litigation on questions of international and constitutional law
involving asylum seekers and immigrants. He also has served as a
consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in
Hungary and Poland and has advised the National Commission on
Migration in Thailand.
In conjunction with the NYSCC Public Policy Committee and
the New York Immigration Coalition, Professor Russell also conducts
legislative advocacy on issues such as comprehensive immigration
reform and other refugee protection issues. Previously, he has
served as Regional Director for CLINIC, where he provided technical
and litigation support to NGOs throughout the United States, he has
worked as a litigation associate at Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin and
Kahn, and he served for two years as judicial law clerk on the U.S.
District Court. Professor Russell is a frequent lecturer and
panelist on refugee and constitutional law litigation at
conferences and trainings by organizations such as the New York
City Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers
Association. He has authored articles for publication in journals
such as Interpreter Releases and written chapters in manuals issued
by CLINIC and Doctors of the World.
Professor Russell is Senior Attorney, Catholic Charities,
Refugee and Immigration Legal Services; Harvard Law School
Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow (2007-2008); Adjunct Professor,
St. John’s School of Law, Refugee and Immigrant Rights Clinic; B.A.
(Philosophy), Haverford College; J.D. (Order of the Coif),
University of Maryland School of Law.
Professor Linda Ferreri
Adjunct Professor. B.A., Duke University;
M.A., New York University; J.D., University of Tulsa
Professor Ferreri teaches International and Cultural Art Law at
University of North Carolina, Asheville. She taught this course as
well at the University of California Los Angeles Law School and at
the University of California at Berkeley Extension. She frequently
lectures on Art Law and European History throughout the U.S. in
consideration of her experience in this field. She worked as
consultant to the UNESCO Division of Cultural Heritage, Paris, as
Senior Vice President/General Counsel, Christie’s Inc., New York,
as General Counsel of The J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles and as
associate with prominent law firms. Professor Ferreri was also a
member of the United States government delegation to multilateral
treaty negotiations on UNIDROIT convention for return and
repatriation of stolen and illegally exported cultural property in
Rome.
Professor Ferreri has served as the Chair of the Art and Cultural
Property Law Committee of the International Bar Association. She
has written extensively on this subject.
Professor Ferreri holds a B.A. from Duke University and M.A. from
New York University and a J.D. from the University of Tulsa.