Professor Krishnakumar teaches Legislation, Introduction to Law,
and Administrative Law. Her scholarship focuses on both statutory
interpretation and the legislative process; several of her early
articles examine the congressional budget process and lobbying
regulations, while her most recent work explores interpretive
trends in the Supreme Court's statutory jurisprudence. Her articles
have appeared in the William & Mary Law Review, the
Hastings Law Journal, the Alabama Law
Review, and the Harvard Journal on Legislation.
Professor Krishnakumar is the 2011 Chair of the Legislation
and Law of the Political Process Section of the Association of
American Law Schools and the editor of the SRRN eJournal on
Legislation and Statutory Interpretation.
Professor Krishnakumar holds an A.B. (with
distinction in Political Science) from Stanford University and
a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a Coker Teaching Fellow
and served as the Chair of the Notes Committee for the Yale Law
Journal and was a Senior Editor on the Yale Law and
Policy Review. Before teaching, Professor
Krishnakumar clerked for the Hon. José A. Cabranes on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
and practiced law at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw and
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. From 2004 to 2006,
she was a visiting professor at Touro Law School, where she won the
Visiting Professor of the Year Award in 2005.
Professor Krishnakumar joined the St. John's faculty as an
Assistant Professor of Law in 2006 and was promoted to
Associate Professor of Law in 2008. She received a Dean's
Teaching Award in 2009.
Selected
Publications
The Anti-Messiness Principle in
Statutory Interpretation, 87 Notre Dame L. Rev. __
(forthcoming 2012) (ssrn
link).
Statutory Interpretation in the
Roberts Court's First Era: An Empirical and Doctrinal
Analysis, 62 Hastings L.J. 221 (2010) (ssrn
link).
The Hidden Legacy of Holy
Trinity Church: The Unique National Institution Canon,
51 William & Mary L. Rev. 1053 (2009) (ssrn
link).
Representation Reinforcement:
A Legislative Solution to a Legislative Process Problem,
46 Harv. J. on Legisl. 1 (2009) (ssrn
link).
Towards A Madisonian,
Interest-Group-Based Approach To Lobbying Regulation, 58 Ala.
L. Rev. 513 (2007) (ssrn
link).
In Defense of the Debt Limit
Statute, 42 Harv. J. on Legisl. 135 (2005) (ssrn
link).
On the Evolution of the
Canonical Dissent in Supreme Court Jurisprudence, 52 Rutgers
L.R. 781 (2000) (ssrn
link).
Note, Reconciliation & The
Fiscal Constitution: The Anatomy of the 1995-96 Budget Train
Wreck, 35 Harv. J. on Legisl. 589 (1998) (ssrn
link).