Rosemary
Salomone, the Kenneth Wang Professor of Law, teaches constitutional
law, administrative law, and a seminar on children and the law and
has served in past years as Associate Academic Dean and Director of
the Center for Law and Public Policy.
She has lectured
internationally and published extensively on education law and
policy. Her internationally recognized book, Same, Different,
Equal: Rethinking Single-Sex Schooling (Yale University Press), was
selected as an "Outstanding Academic Title for 2005" by Choice
Magazine. She also is the author of True American: Language,
Identity, and the Education of Immigrant Children (Harvard
University Press, forthcoming), Visions of Schooling: Conscience,
Community, and Common Education (Yale University Press), and Equal
Education Under Law: Legal Rights and Federal Policy in the Post
"Brown" Era (St. Martin's Press). Her present research examines
citizenship and schooling within the context of immigrant
integration in the United States and Western Europe, particularly
France. She has been a recipient of numerous research and academic
awards including St. John's University's highest honor, the St.
Vincent de Paul Teacher-Scholar Award, the University Outstanding
Faculty Achievement Award, and grants from the National Science
Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the Spencer
Foundation, and Harvard University. She has held fellowships at
Columbia University’s School of Law and at the Soros Foundation’s
Open Society Institute.
Prior to St.
John's, she was an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education where she taught education law, school finance,
and language policy and served on the faculty of Harvard’s
Institute for Educational Management. From 1985 to 1995, she was a
member of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York
where she chaired the Academic Planning Committee. She is a former
chair of the Section on Education Law of the Association of
American Law Schools and of the Education and the Law Committee of
the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where she
served on the Council on Children. She was elected to membership in
the American Law Institute in 2008. She currently is an Advisory
Board member of the National Coalition of Single-Sex Public Schools
and the Education Law Abstracting Journal.
Professor
Salomone is a graduate of Columbia University (LL.M., Ph.D.,
M.Phil.), Brooklyn Law School (J.D.), Hunter College (M.A.), and
Brooklyn College (B.A.).