Akilah N. Folami, Associate Legal Writing Professor.
Professor Akilah N. Folami received her B.A. in History, magna
cum laude, from Spelman College and her J.D. from Columbia Law
School, where she was a Patricia Roberts Harris fellow. Upon
graduating from law school, Professor Folami began her legal career
as a law clerk to Federal Judge Constance Baker Motley of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
She then went on to practice as an associate in the Litigation
Department at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New
York.
Immediately prior to joining St. John's faculty as an Assistant
Legal Writing Professor, Professor Folami practiced in the
Technology Transaction Group of Morrison & Foersters New York
office. While there, Professor Folami developed her practice on a
wide range of technology, intellectual property, new media, and
Internet related issues, such as ownership, licensing, e-commerce,
online contracting, and privacy. Professor Folami's scholarly
interests include contract formation, particularly as it relates to
online and electronic contracting, and real estate law. She has
authored an article entitled A New Era For Signatures and
Contracts: The E-Sign Act and E-Commerce (published in the October
2000 issue of AlleyWay Magazine).