Cheryl L. Wade is the "Dean Harold F. McNiece" Professor of Law
at St. John's University School of Law. She teaches Law and Race,
Business Organizations, Corporate Governance and Accountability,
Torts and Close Business Arrangements.
Professor Wade has written book chapters and law review articles
on securities, corporate and education law. She was invited
to write articles for symposia published by Tulane Law Review, The
Maryland Law Review, The Washington & Lee Law Review, The
Washburn Law Journal, and The Journal of Gender, Race &
Justice. Her articles have been cited in several leading law
reviews. One of her articles was listed in The National Law
Journal's Worth Reading Column. Another article, Corporate
Governance as Corporate Social Responsibility: Empathy and Race
Discrimination, was excerpted in a text entitled “Corporate
Governance: Law, Theory and Policy. She was invited to
contribute an essay for the inaugural issue of the Seattle Journal
for Social Justice, and was invited to write a commentary for Law
& Policy, which is a publication of the Baldy Center for Law
and Social Policy. Professor Wade was asked to contribute a chapter
for the book, Corporate Governance in Global Capital Markets.
Professor Wade is a frequent speaker and panelist at various
university conferences and workshops on issues of corporate and
civil rights law. In the spring semester of 2007, Professor
Wade presented a paper entitled, African American Professionals
and The Expectation Bias That Impedes Their Climb Up the Corporate
Ladder at the UCLA School of Law Critical Race Theory
Workshop, and presented a paper entitled, Corporate
Governance: The Power of Rhetoric and The Value of
Discourse at a symposium organized by the law school and
business school at Loyola University Chicago. In March, 2007,
Professor Wade was chosen as a presenter in the Western New England
School of Law Clason Speaker Series.
In March 2005, Professor Wade organized a symposium “People of
Color, Women and the Public Corporation: Conference on Racial and
Gender Equity in the Business Setting”, sponsored by St. John’s
University School of Law. This symposium brought together the
leading scholars in the areas of corporate governance, critical
race theory, employment discrimination and feminist legal
theory. The papers from this symposium were published in the
St. John’s Law Review. Professor Wade works with Leeds,
Morelli & Brown as an expert witness in employment
discrimination cases, providing testimony about corporate workplace
discrimination.
Professor Wade has spoken at conferences organized by the
Society of American Law Teachers, The American Association of Law
Schools, The National Bar Association, The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People, The Law and Society Association,
The Business Software Alliance and The Association of University
Women. Professor Wade has appeared on several Long Island radio and
cable television programs discussing issues relating to corporate
and civil rights law. Professor Wade was chosen among several
applicants to participate in the "Corporate Citizens in Corporate
Cultures: Restructuring and Reform" workshop sponsored by the
Feminism and Legal Theory Project and Cornell Law School. Professor
Wade delivered the keynote address at the University of British
Columbia Faculty of Law Symposium on Shareholders in January
2003.
Professor Wade was a Visiting Professor of Law at Washington and
Lee School of Law in the fall, 2003. In 2001, she taught Law
and Race in Sydney, Australia at the University of New South
Wales.
Professor Wade received a teaching award from St. John’s
University School of Law’s Dean Mary Daly for her Race and
Corporate Law Seminar. Prior to joining the faculty at St.
John's Law School, Professor Wade served on the faculty at Hofstra
Law School. While at Hofstra, Professor Wade was chosen to serve as
an associate for The Merrill Lynch Center for the Study of
International Financial Services and Markets. Professor Wade
received the Outstanding Faculty Member and Outstanding Alumna
Award from The Hofstra Black Law Students Association in 1996, and
received faculty recognition awards from the group in 1993, 1998,
1999, 2000 and 2001. Before joining the Hofstra faculty,
Professor Wade was an associate in the corporate department of the
New York City law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison. For several years, Professor Wade served on the Board of
Directors of the Women's Action Alliance, a not-for-profit
corporation devoted to the study and analysis of issues related to
the sociological development and empowerment of women and girls.
She served as the chair of the Task Force on Diversity in Law
Faculty Hiring, which was part of the Committee on Law Student
Perspectives of The Association of the Bar of the City of New
York.
Before attending law school, Professor Wade was a teacher of
Spanish and bilingual education for the Board of Education of the
City of New York. She received a Masters' degree in Spanish from
St. John's University where she was installed in Sigma Delta Pi, an
honor society for the study of foreign languages.
Professor Wade was awarded a Juris Doctorate with distinction
from the Hofstra University School of Law where she was a member of
the Law Review. She graduated in the top 2% of her law school
class. While a student at Hofstra Law School, Professor Wade
received the Law School's Citation of Excellence for Corporation
Law Courses and the New York State Trial Lawyers Association's
Thurgood Marshall Award.