David L. Gregory is the Dorothy Day Professor of Law and the
Executive Director of the Center for Labor and Employment Law.
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 brings major speakers to the School of Law every year, ranging
from Cesar Chavez in 1987 to three Chairs of the National Labor
Relations Board (William B. Gould IV) in 1996, Peter Hurtgen in
2001, and Wilma Liebman in 2010 and again in 2011). He hosts the
annual management lawyers’ colloquium at the School of Law, now in
its 16th year. He often serves as a media commentator on labor,
employment, and constitutional law issues, regularly appears on
television, and is frequently quoted in the New York Times and
other major newspapers. He is the co-author of the
forthcoming Modern Labor Law in the Public and Private
Sectors (Lexis, 2012), and a contributing author for the
American Bar Association treatises How Arbitration Works
and Discipline and Discharge in Arbitration. He has
over two hundred academic and professional publications, including
more than one hundred articles and book reviews in leading law
reviews. 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. In
2008, he received the Faculty Outstanding Achievement Award,
conferred by the President of St. John’s University. Professor
Gregory has been faculty advisor to the St. John’s Labor Relations
and Employment Law Society since 1982.
He has presented lectures and papers at many law schools,
including Yale, Harvard, George Washington, Notre Dame, Illinois,
Villanova, University College, Dublin, Ireland, the Pontifical
University of the Holy Cross, Rome, the Jesuit Curia, Rome, Queen
Mary University of London, and at New York University, Fordham,
Marquette, College of the Holy Cross, Mount Sinai Medical School,
the NYC Police Academy, and the Catholic Worker. He was 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 most recently has been appointed by the
President of the Association of American Law Schools to a three
year term on the Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee of the AALS,
2011-2014. He is General Counsel pro bono, The Catholic League for
Religious and Civil Rights.
He authored the first comprehensive law review articles ever
published on Catholic social teaching on labor, and on Dorothy Day
and the Catholic Worker movement: 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).
Professor Gregory has chaired several major international
conferences, including: the Transatlantic Perspectives on Labor,
University College Dublin Law School, July, 2000 (14 New York
International Law Review 1 (2001); the national conference of the
Religiously-Affiliated Law Schools at St. John’s in July, 2000 (74
St. John’s Law Review 565 (2000); Transatlantic Perspectives on
Alternative Dispute Resolution, July 26-28, 2006, Queen Mary
University of London campus, in London’s Charterhouse Square (81
St. John’s Law Review 1 (2007);. Fifteenth Annual Conference of
the Society of Catholic Social Scientists at St. John’s,
October 26-28, 2007 (47 Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 1 (2008).
In 2011, he is chairing The Theology of Work and the Dignity of
Workers at St. John’s, March 18-19; and, Worlds of
Work: Employment Dispute Resolution Systems Across the Globe
at Cambridge University, July 20-23.
Professor Gregory is a member of the National Academy of
Arbitrators, and was a 2010 nominee for election to the Board of
Governors of the NAA. 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.
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 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 1, 2011) (For more
details about Professor Gregory’s profile and the work of the St.
John’s Center for Labor and Employment Law, see www.stjohns.edu)