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 and children's rights. In addition to her
most recent book, True American: Language, Identity, and the
Education of Immigrant Children (Harvard University Press, 2010),
she also is the author of Same, Different, Equal: Rethinking
Single-Sex Schooling (Yale University Press) (selected as an
"Outstanding Academic Title for 2005" by Choice Magazine), 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). 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
School of Law and at the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute.
Her present research examines citizenship, multiculturalism,
and schooling in the context of immigrant integration in
the United States and Western Europe.
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 was a lecturer in
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. 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 is
an elected member of the American Law
Institute and of the American Bar Foundation. She currently
serves on the Advisory Boards of the National Coalition of
Single-Sex Public Schools and of the Education Law Abstracting
Journal.
Professor Salomone is a graduate of Columbia University (Ph.D.,
LL.M., M.Phil.), Brooklyn Law School (J.D.), Hunter College (M.A.),
and Brooklyn College (B.A.)