Legal Scholarship at St. John’s is vibrant and diverse, ranging
from traditional theoretical analyses to empirical studies, from
legal history to law-related poetry. Here is a just a
sampling of recent scholarship from the St. John’s Faculty:
Professor Rosemary C. Salomone’s most book Same,
Different, Equal—Rethinking Single-Sex Schooling was
published by Yale University Press to wide
acclaim and was selected as an
“Outstanding Academic Title for 2005” by Choice magazine.
Professor John Q. Barrett discovered, edited, and published the late Supreme Court
Justice Robert H. Jackson’s previously unknown memoir of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. Entitled
That Man An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, the book was a Main Selection of the
Book of the Month Club and the
History Book Club, a Choice “
Outstanding Academic Title for 2005,” and was prominently
reviewed, including in The New York Times Book Review,
The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times,
The Wall Street Journal,
The Washington Monthly,
The New Republic, and Legal Times.
Professor Lawrence Joseph’s fourth book of poetry,
Into
It, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux to highly
favorable reviews, including in
the New York Times and the San
Francisco Chronicle. Farrar, Straus, which published
Professor Joseph’s critically acclaimed book Lawyerland in
1987, has also published a collection of Prof. Joseph’s three
previous books of poetry under the title Codes, Precepts,
Biases, and Taboos: Poems 1973-1993.
Professor Brian Z. Tamanaha’s most recent book,
On the Rule of Law: History, Politics, and Theory, was
published by Cambridge University Press to significant
acclaim.
Professor Timothy Zick is completing a series of
articles in which he has articulated an ambitious
reconceptualization of “place” in First Amendment
jurisprudence. His article Speech
and Spatial Tactics will be published in the Texas Law
Review in 2005, his article Space,
Place, and Speech: The Expressive Topography will be
published in the George Washington Law Review in 2006, and his
article Property, Place, and Public Discourse will be published in
2006 in the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy as part
of a symposium on The Rehnquist Court and the First
Amendment. Professor Zick’s other articles in the past
three years have appeared in the Washington & Lee Law Review,
the North Carolina Law Review, and the William & Mary Law
Review.
Professor Cheryl L. Wade coordinated a symposium on
“People of Color, Women and the Public Corporation: Conference on
Racial and Gender Equity in Business Setting,” that brought
together leading U.S. scholars to explore the complex problem of
discrimination in the private sector. Her article “We
Are An Equal Opportunity Employer”: Diversity Doublespeak
was published in the Washington & Lee Law Review.
Professor Leonard M. Baynes, the newly appointed
Director of the Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and
Economic Development, organized a conference on
The LSAT, U.S. News & World Report, and Minority
Admissions. In addition, his article Making
the Case for a Compelling Governmental Interest and Re-Establishing
FCC Affirmative Action in Programs for Broadcast Licensing
was recently published in the Rutgers Law Review, and a symposium
he organized entitled Racial Justice in the New Millennium
was published in the Notre Dame Law Review.
Professor Susan J. Stabile has written several recent
articles exploring Catholic Legal Studies. Her article State
Attempts to Define Religion: The Ramifications of Applying
Mandatory Prescription Contraceptive Coverage Statutes to Religious
Employers was published in the Harvard Journal of Law and
Public Policy, her article Subsidiarity
and the Use of Faith-Based Organizations in the Fight Against
Poverty was published in the Villanova Journal of Catholic
Social Thought, and her article Using
Religion to Promote Corporate Responsibility was published
in the Wake Forest Law Review. Her current works in progress,
John Courtney Murray and the Abortion Debate (prepared for the
Villanova Journal of Catholic Social Thought) andA
Catholic Vision of the Corporation, continue this line of
scholarship.
Professor
Nina J. Crimm has published three articles this year
exploring the reach of tax laws in a variety of contexts. Her
article Democratization, Global Grant-Making, and the Internal
Revenue Code Lobbying Restrictions was published in the Tulane
Law Review, her article Post-September 11 Fortified
Anti-Terrorism Measures Compel Heightened Due Diligence was
published in the Pace Law Review, and her article Fiduciary
Duties Contained in Federal Tax Laws Effectively Promote National
Healthcare Policies and Practices? was published in Health
Matrix.
Professor
Nelson Tebbe, the newest member of our faculty, had his
article Free
Exercise and the Problem of Symmetry published in the
Hastings Law Journal.
For more scholarship from the St. John’s Faculty, see the
St. John’s Legal Studies Research Paper Series at www.ssrn.com.