Full-Time Faculty

Our Faculty

Our full-time faculty sets the foundation for the Law School's excellence, prominence, and impact. In the classroom, our faculty members are dedicated educators who teach our students the foundations of the law, help them build practical knowledge and skills, and prepare them to be innovators who make their mark in a fast-changing profession. Outside St. John's Law, as accomplished scholars, policy framers, and commentators, our faculty helps to shape local, national, and international legal systems and the public discourse around them.

Renee Nicole Allen
Associate Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Center for Race and Law

Adrián E. Alvarez
Assistant Professor of Law

Ashley B. Armstrong
Associate Professor of Legal Writing

Anna Arons
Assistant Professor of Law

Noa Ben-Asher
Professor of Law

John Q. Barrett
Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law

Jennifer Baum
Professor of Clinical Legal Education
Director, Child Advocacy Clinic

Christopher J. Borgen
Professor of Law
Co-Director, Center for International and Comparative Law

Robin Boyle-Laisure
Professor of Legal Writing

Gina M. Calabrese
Professor of Clinical Legal Education
Associate Director, Consumer Justice for the Elderly: Litigation Clinic

Rosa Castello
Professor of Legal Writing
Associate Dean for Assessment and Accreditation

Edward D. Cavanagh
Professor of Law

Miriam A. Cherry
Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Center for Labor & Employment Law

Elaine M. Chiu
Professor of Law

Tyler Rose Clemons
Assistant Professor of Law

Catherine Baylin Duryea
Associate Professor of Law

Elissa Germaine
Assistant Professor of Clinical Legal Education
Co-Director, Securities Arbitration Clinic

Ann L. Goldweber
Professor and Director of Clinical Legal Education
Director, Consumer Justice for the Elderly: Litigation Clinic

Jelani Jefferson Exum
Dean
Rose DiMartino and Karen Sue Smith Professor of Law

Louis Jim
Associate Professor of Legal Writing

Kate Klonick
Associate Professor of Law

Martin J. LaFalce
Assistant Professor of Clinical Legal Education
Director, Defense and Advocacy Clinic

Christine Lazaro
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs 
Professor of Clinical Legal Education
Co-Director, Securities Arbitration Clinic

Philip Lee
Professor of Law

Evelyn Malavé 
Assistant Professor of Law

Margaret E. (Peggy) McGuinness
Professor of Law
Director, LL.M. in Transnational Legal Practice
Co-Director, Center for International and Comparative Law

Patricia Grande Montana
Professor of Legal Writing
Director, Street Law Program

Mark L. Movsesian
Frederick A. Whitney Professor of Contract Law
Director, Mattone Center for Law and Religion

Mark C. Niles
Professor of Law

Colleen Parker
Assistant Professor of Legal Writing

Michael A. Perino
Dean George W. Matheson Professor of Law

Robert A. Ruescher
Professor of Legal Writing
Director, LL.M. in U.S. Legal Studies

Rosemary C. Salomone
Kenneth Wang Professor of Law

Courtney Selby
Associate Dean for Library Services
Professor of Legal Research

Keith Sharfman
Professor of Law

Jeremy N. Sheff
Professor of Law
Director, Intellectual Property Law Center

Michael A. Simons
John V. Brennan Professor of Law and Ethics

Rachel H. Smith
Mary C. Daly Professor of Legal Writing
Vice Dean for Student Success

Eva E. Subotnik
Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship
Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Intellectual Property Law Center

Jacob L. Todres
Professor of Law

Cheryl L. Wade
Harold F. McNiece Professor of Law

G. Ray Warner
Professor of Law

Scholarly Life at St. John's Law

At St. John's Law, we believe that scholarship is a central part of the life of a law school. That belief animates the scholarly programs we host and our faculty's impressive scholarly output.

Through conferences, colloquia, and workshops, we bring leading legal scholars to the Law School throughout the academic year. Our academic centers offer opportunities for students, alumni, and others to explore topics of particular interest to our faculty, including civil rights and economic justice, intellectual property, race and law, alternative dispute resolution, international and comparative law, law and religion, bankruptcy, and labor law.

Our faculty members come from diverse personal, professional, and academic backgrounds, and many enjoy wide recognition in their fields. They maintain the Law School's commitment to scholarship by authoring influential books, treatises, and articles in almost every legal discipline, and their work is published in top journals, by prestigious academic presses, and through popular media outlets. 

Faculty News

Produced by Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship Eva E. Subotnik, the Faculty Focus blog covers our faculty's activities and achievements. Here's just a sampling of recent posts:

From the Faculty Focus Blog

Chiu Celebrates AANHPI Heritage Month

Professor Elaine Chiu had an outstanding final week of this year’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month. On Tuesday, May 27th, Professor Chiu shared a documentary entitled “Voices Against Anti-Asian Hate,” produced by the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY), with the St. John’s Law community. Faculty, students, and...

Second Edition of Boyle-Laisure’s Book to be Published this Summer

Professor Robin Boyle-Laisure’s workbook, Becoming a Legal Writer: A Workbook with Explanations to Develop Objective Legal Analysis and Writing Skills (Carolina Academic Press (CAP)), will be published in its second edition this summer, just in time for use in the Fall semester. The second edition provides new chapters and exercises for the first book, published...

Movsesian Participates in University of Messina Conference

Professor Mark Movsesian presented a paper, “COVID and the Rise of the ‘Nones’ in the US,” at an online conference at the University of Messina (Italy)’s Department of Law. Details about the conference, on the religious freedom of minority groups in times of crisis, may be found here.

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