FACULTY FOCUS

Read all about the latest activities and achievements of our outstanding St. John’s Law faculty:

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Professor Renee Nicole Allen was invited to present her forthcoming article, “Contextualizing the Triggering Event: Colonial White Supremacy, Anti-Blackness, and Black Lives Matter in the United States and Italy,” at Washington and Lee School of Law and for the Berger International Speaker Series at Cornell Law School. The article will be published in the Minnesota Journal of International Law

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The Military Law Review published “Principled Legal Practice” by Justice Robert H. Jackson at Nuremberg, the Romig Lecture that Professor John Q. Barrett presented to the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center & School (online). Professor Barrett is featured in a new documentary film, Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony. He lectured, or was a program speaker, at the Jewish Historical Society of Fairfield County, CT; the Nassau County Bar Association; Columbia Law School; the Federal Bar Association EDNY Central Islip; the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum (on YouTube); Chautauqua Institution (on YouTube); and Georgetown University Law Center (on C-SPAN). He was also a guest on the Dissed and Angry Planet podcasts.

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Professor Jennifer Baum presented to a national audience at the Practicing Law Institute on Ethical Considerations When Representing Domestic Violence Survivors: The Ethics of Social Media Use. She reviewed ethics rules and opinions from multiple jurisdictions concerning the duty of technological competence, a lawyer’s ethical obligations in the provision of remote legal services, the definition and consequences of deceptive social media use, guidance on “friend” and “follow” requests, and what constitutes unauthorized access to electronically stored data.

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Professor Robin Boyle wrote interactive modules on objective writing, persuasive writing, legislation drafting, judicial opinions, and tractional drafting that West Academic published for students as formative assessment tools. She co-authored Becoming a Legal Writer: A Workbook with Explanations to Develop Objective Legal Analysis and Writing Skills as well as the article “Swimming with Broad Strokes: Publishing and Presenting Beyond the LW Discipline,” which appears in the peer-reviewed journal Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing. Professor Boyle was interviewed for a West Academic podcast episode on Generational Comparisons: Civil Rights Movement and Current Day Climate Movement. She also presented at the Legal Writing Institute’s Biennial Conference on Engaging Students’ Creativity: Tapping into Their Right Brain Functions to Enhance Learning.

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As part of a West Academic panel, Professor Miriam A. Cherry presented to new law professors on strategies for teaching contracts, and talked about her book, Contracts: A Real World Casebook. She presented a work-in-progress about bans on mandatory arbitration of sex harassment claims to the Colloquium on Labor and Employment Law. Professor Cherry also lectured as part of a United Nations – International Labor Office training seminar on the platform economy. The Loyola Los Angeles Law Review published her article, “Gig Work as Essential Workers,” and the University of the Pacific Law Review published her symposium piece on employee misclassification in California.

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Appointed by William H. Ng ’07—who just concluded his term as president of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY)—Professor Elaine Chiu has been serving as chairperson of AABANY’s Anti-Asian Violence Task Force. In that role, she has led AABANY’s efforts to report on prosecutorial outcomes; advocate for revisions to New York’s hate crime statutes; organize Asian American Pacific Islander community attendance at court proceedings; educate the public around hate and violence; and assist survivors and their families. Along with Professor Rosa Castello ‘06, Professor Chiu proudly received the Spirit of Service Award at the Law School’s 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Gala.

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Professor Marc DeGirolami has published several papers recently: “Establishment’s Political Priority to Free Exercise” (Notre Dame Law Review); “The New Disestablishments” (George Mason Civil Rights Law Journal); “Mysterizing Religion” (forthcoming Notre Dame Law Review); “Public-Private Drift” (forthcoming American Journal of Jurisprudence); and “Traditionalism Rising” (forthcoming Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues). At his Legal Theory Blog, University of Virginia School of Law Professor Lawrence Solum selected

“Traditionalism Rising” as one of the 10 best papers of 2022. Professor DeGirolami has presented, or will present, his work at Notre Dame Law School; University of San Diego School of Law; Georgetown University School of Law; Catholic University School of Law; Yale Law School; New York University School of Law; Pepperdine Law School; the University of Houston Law Center; George Mason School of Law; the University of Wisconsin School of Law; and the University of Southern Queensland. Last semester, he taught a class on Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Inquiry in Princeton University’s Department of Politics.

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Professor Catherine Baylin Duryea’s article, “Roots of Collapse: Imposing Constitutional Governance,” appears in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law. The article traces the connections between foreign involvement in the drafting of the 2004 Constitution of Afghanistan and the weakness of the Afghan government before it fell to the Taliban. Professor Duryea has also presented at the NYU Legal History Colloquium and the Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar.

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With a focus on the intersectionality of bias, video conferencing, and dispute resolution justice, Professor Elayne E. Greenberg presented Blinding Justice and Video Conferencing? at the International Association for Conflict Management Annual Conference, as part of a panel on Pandemic Impacts on Remote Justice. Her Stetson Law Review article on the same topic offers a fuller discussion of the issues she explored at the panel program. Professor Greenberg presented Zooming in on ‘isms at the 15th Annual AALS ADR Section Works-inProgress Conference. Her presentation questioned whether mediators’ and arbitrators’ implicit biases are exacerbated when conducting their dispute resolution processes for civil matters via video conferencing.

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Professor Christine Lazaro moderated a panel on Arbitration in the Age of the New Standard of Care at PLI’s Securities Arbitration 2022 Conference. She also presented at the PIABA Annual Conference, participating on a Case Law Roundup panel and moderating two other panels, What’s So Special About SPACs? and How to Bring Reg BI Cases. Professor Lazaro also moderated a panel discussion for the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee on Account Statement Disclosure.

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Professor Mark Movsesian spoke on the future of religious exemptions at the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at BYU Law School, co-hosted and moderated a panel at a conference on Liberalism’s Limits at LUMSA University in Rome, and presented his paper, “The New Thoreaus,” at the Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center at the University of Texas Law School. He also co-chaired a St. John’s Center for Law and Religion panel discussion on the Supreme Court’s Religion Clause jurisprudence with Hon. Richard Sullivan (CA2) and Hon. Rachel Kovner (EDNY); spoke on The Supreme Court and New Frontiers in Religious Liberty at Cardozo Law School’s Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy; and participated in an academic panel on The Rise of the Nones co-sponsored by the Center for Law and Religion and the Journal of Catholic Legal Studies

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Professor Kate Klonick was awarded a Fulbright Schuman-Innovation Award for 2023-2024 to research the Digital Service Act and Digital Markets Act implementation in the European Union as a visiting professor at Sciences-Po in Paris and University of Amsterdam. In her new Substack, The Klonickles, she gives brief insights on emerging law and technology issues in the press and courts. “Of Systems Thinking and Strawmen,” Professor Klonick’s essay on how to understand the emerging scholarly field of content moderation and online speech governance, will be published in the Harvard Law Review Forum

Professor Rosemary Salomone is the recipient of the Brooklyn College Alumni/ae Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Her most recent book, The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language, attracted additional interviews with the New Books Network; Io Donna; the Cary Library; and the Childhood Law and Policy Network Newsletter. The book was the stimulus for a discussion and report on the Future of English hosted by the Publishers Association (UK), the British Council, and others in London. Professor Salomone presented a paper, “Transformative Constitutionalism: The South African Constitutional Court and Shifting Narratives on Language Rights,” at the 5th International Legal Linguistics Workshop. Her book chapter, “In Pursuit of Sustainable Educational Development: The Philippines and the English Dilemma,” was published in Language and Sustainable Development