Timothy Zick, Professor of
Law.
Professor Zick joined the St. John's faculty in 2002 and
was voted Professor of the Year by the students in 2006.
He teaches constitutional law, administrative law, an advanced
Supreme Court Seminar, and torts.
Professor Zick graduated summa cum laude from
Indiana University in 1989 and summa cum laude from
Georgetown University Law Center in 1992, where he received the
Francis E. Lucey, S.J. Award for graduating first in his
class. While at Georgetown, Professor Zick was a Notes &
Comments editor of the Georgetown Law
Journal. Following law school, Professor Zick was
an associate with the law firms of Williams & Connolly in
Washington, D.C., where he assisted in the defense of congressional
term limits in the Supreme Court of the United States, and Foley
Hoag in Boston. He served as a law clerk to the
Honorable Levin H. Campbell of the United States Court of Appeals
for the First Circuit. Professor Zick also served as
a Trial Attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the United
States Department of Justice, where he defended the
constitutionality and legality of a variety of federal programs and
statutes.
Professor Zick has written on a wide variety of
constitutional issues, with a special focus on issues of free
speech and federalism. His articles have been
published in the Texas Law Review, the
Washington University Law Review, the William &
Mary Law Review, and the George Washington Law
Review. His forthcoming book, Breathing
Space: The Struggle to Preserve Speech, Assembly, and Other
First Amendment Liberties in Public Places (Cambridge
University Press) examines the dynamic intersection of place
and the First Amendment.