Legal Scholarship on the Move

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.