Evelyn Malavé is an Assistant Professor of Law. She teaches Torts and Criminal Law. Her research focuses on under-scrutinized levers of decision-making and power in state criminal courts, with an emphasis on problem-solving courts. Recent work has addressed the role of criminal court administrators in shaping criminal legal system reform, and the role of narrative in problem-solving courts. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as the American Criminal Law Review and the Fordham Law Review.
Prior to joining the faculty at St. John’s, Professor Malavé taught at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, where she was an Associate Professor, and New York University School of Law, where she was an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering. Before entering academia, she was a public defender at the Legal Aid Society of New York in Brooklyn and Queens.
She graduated cum laude from New York University School of Law and received her B.A. from Yale University. After law school she clerked for Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis (ret.) of the Southern District of New York.