Associate Professor of Law
J.D. Yale Law SchoolB.A. Barnard College
Anna Arons is an Associate Professor of Law. She teaches evidence, criminal law, and courses related to family law. Professor Arons writes about the government's regulation and policing of families and the intersection of family regulation and criminal procedure. Her scholarship appears in publications including the N.Y.U. Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Washington University Law Review, and has been cited in publications including MSNBC, the New York Times, Pro Publica, USA Today, and the Washington Post.
Professor Arons joined the St. John’s faculty from N.Y.U. School of Law, where she was an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering and the Impact Project Director of N.Y.U.’s Family Defense Clinic. Since coming to St. John’s, she has continued this work with the Family Defense Clinic. Before entering academia, Professor Arons was a public defender in the family defense practice of Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, representing parents in cases where the government was attempting to remove their children from their care or otherwise impinge on their rights.
She graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College and received her J.D. from Yale Law School. After law school, she clerked for Judge Andrew L. Carter of the Southern District of New York.
Private Prosecution and the State, 100 N.Y.U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).
Family Regulation’s Consent Problem, 125 Colum. L. Rev. 769 (2025).
Prosecuting Families, 173 U. Penn. L. Rev. 1029 (2025).
The Empty Promise of the Fourth Amendment in the Family Regulation System, 100 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1057 (2023).
Thompson v. Clark and the ‘Reasonable’ Policing of Marginalized Families, 47 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 221(2023).
An Unintended Abolition: Family Regulation During the Covid-19 Crisis, 12 Colum. J. Race & L. F. 1 (2022).