Assistant Professor of Law
J.D. Georgetown University Law CenterM.A. Georgetown UniversityB.A. Bethel University
Benjamin Sundholm joins St. John’s Law as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Law. He teaches and writes about tort law, health law, law & technology, and legal philosophy.
Professor Sundholm is interested in the revisions to traditional tort doctrines that are needed in response to the use of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence technologies in a variety of contexts, including healthcare. He is also interested in questions about the nature of law.
Before joining St. John’s, Professor Sundholm was a Forrester Fellow at Tulane Law School and, prior to that, a Fellow of Medical Ethics at the Medical College of Cornell University. He earned his J.D. cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an articles editor for the Georgetown Law Journal, his M.A. in philosophy from Georgetown University, and his B.A. cum laude from Bethel University. After law school, he worked as an associate in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.