Welcome to another edition of St. John’s Law Faculty News, our quarterly newsletter featuring our full-time faculty’s publications, activities, and achievements.

We’re pleased to announce that Professor Noa Ben-Asher will serve as Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship at St. John’s Law beginning June 1, 2026. They succeed Professor Eva Subotnik, who has guided faculty scholarship and impact in this important leadership role since 2020, producing our Faculty Focus blog, annual Faculty Workshop Series, and 100th anniversary Faculty Scholarship Symposium, among other achievements.

Our Law Matters story series features interviews with St. John’s Law faculty about their teaching, research, writing, and work in the field. Online, you’ll find recent interviews with Professors:

The latest issue of St. John’s Law magazine also includes a special Law Matters features section sharing conversations with Professors:

You’ll find those interviews, and one with Dean Jelani Jefferson Exum about her legal scholarship, in the digital edition of the magazine.

Professor Ashley B. Armstrong’s article, “The Stories We (Don’t) Teach,” has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed Journal of Legal Education. Using the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Title VII decision in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins as a case study, the article explores how legal educators can surface power dynamics, narrative omissions, and institutional context to foster deeper, more critical engagement with doctrine and the role of law. 

Professor Robin Boyle-Laisure’s article, “Education Theory Integrated in Business Law,” appears in the peer-reviewed Journal of Legal Studies Education. Her book, Taken No More: Protect Your Children Against Traffickers and Cults (Bloomsbury), won the International Impact Book Awards in the category of Parenting–Child Safety and Awareness. Separately, a book chapter Professor Boyle-Laisure proposed with Professor Ashley B. Armstrong has been accepted for publication in the next edition of the Clinical Legal Education Association’s Best Practices series (Carolina Academic Press). Their chapter bridges theory and practice by applying cognitive learning science to experiential legal education.

Professor Miriam A. Cherry’s latest article, "AI’s Hidden Workers," has been accepted for publication in the William and Mary Law Review. In it, she examines “AI washing,” including the investment frauds and poor working conditions accompanying fake AI. 

Professor Elaine Chiu penned an opinion piece commemorating the 5th anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings, framing them as a defining moment for the global movement to stop anti-Asian hate.

“The Right to Seek Joy,” Professor Tyler Rose Clemons’s latest article, appears in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. In it, she analyzes state laws restricting access to gender-affirming medical treatment under the Fourteenth Amendment and explores “what substantive due process jurisprudence might look like if we took seriously the Framers' conception of liberty as the pursuit of happiness.” 

Professor Kate Klonick’s paper, “Ban Cookie Banners: A Case Study in Tech Regulation,” appears in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Her recent LawFare article, “The State Department’s X Directive and the End of Platform Independence,” addresses the diplomatic cable Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent to instruct U.S. embassies to use Elon Musk’s X in psychological propaganda campaigns.

Professor Evelyn Malavé’s article, “The Mass Treatment Paradigm,” will be published in the Northwestern Law School’s Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. The article explores how the concept of “treatment” is increasingly deployed to justify the expansion of a supposedly softer and gentler carceral state. 

Professor Robin Boyle-Laisure offered expert insights on cults and trafficking for a guest appearance on the Life Changes Show.

Professor Kate Klonick was named a Senior Editor at Lawfare, where she oversees law, technology, and geopolitics coverage. She appears regularly on Lawfare‘s podcasts, Rational Security, Lawfare Live, and Scaling Laws. Her paper, “Ban Cookie Banners: A Case Study in Tech Regulation,” is the focus of an episode of The Vergecast podcast. 

In Chiles v. Salazar, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Colorado may not apply its ban on conversion therapy for minors to prohibit a licensed counselor's talk therapy. Professor Mark Movsesian analyzes the case for The Volokh Conspiracy and discusses it on an episode of the Legal Spirits podcast he produces as Director of the Law School’s Mattone Center for Law and Religion.

In its article “Anche la Lingua è Uno Strumento di Potere” [Language Too Is An Instrument of Power] (PDF), the Italian magazine Start interviews Professor Rosemary Salomone about the intersection of law and politics in the spread of English as a global lingua franca. In the interview, Professor Salomone draws on insights from her latest book, The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language (Oxford University Press).

Professor Renee Nicole Allen was invited to talk about her forthcoming Boston University Law Review article, “Hell Hath No Fury Like a White Man Scorned,” at the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Women in Legal Education Conference.

Professor Adrián Alvarez presented a forthcoming article that seeks to understand how increased immigration enforcement impacts access to special education services in affected communities.

Professor John Q. Barrett, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson biographer, participated in a Robert H. Jackson Center online symposium on The Ethics and Philosophy of Prosecution: Justice vs. Revenge and at an online National Constitution Center Town Hall focused on Justice Jackson. He spoke about being a Justice Jackson biographer at a CUNY Graduate Center conference on Writing Legal Lives: Biography, Memoir, and the Law. For Albany Law School’s 175th anniversary symposium, Professor Barrett presented the lecture Robert H. Jackson Went to Law School, Graduated from Law School, and Even Went to College. The Veterans Breakfast Club welcomed him as its guest speaker for an online program about the 1945-1946 Nuremberg trial of principal Nazi war criminals, and he gave a lecture on The Nuremberg Trials—80 Years Ago, Today, & Tomorrow at the International Seminar for Holocaust Museum and Memorial Educators at Yad Vashem, the world Holocaust remembrance center, in Jerusalem, Israel.

Professor Robin Boyle-Laisure’s presentation at the Garden City Community Church Forum received news coverage in Garden City Living. The talk highlighted material from her book, Taken No More: Protect Your Children Against Traffickers and Cults (Bloomsbury). Professor Boyle-Laisure also discussed the book as a panelist at Adelphi University’s Writers & Readers Festival.

At the AALS Contracts Section’s annual meeting, Professor Miriam A. Cherry presented her paper, “Abuse of Contract: A Proposal for a New Cause of Action,” which appears in the William and Mary Law Review. Professor Cherry is a past chair of the AALS Contracts Section.

Professor Elaine Chiu recently completed a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Sydney Law School related to her work on improving hate crime laws.

Professor Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal presented his draft paper, “The Legal Realism of W.E.B. Du Bois,” at the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) inaugural Progressive Scholars Workshop at Boston University School of Law.

Professor Philip Lee gave a keynote address on Asian Americans and the Law: Storytelling on the Margins at this year’s New Year & Lantern Festival Celebration hosted by the Queens Supreme Court.

Professor Jeremy Sheff, Director of St. John’s Intellectual Property Law Center (IPLC), hosted the 2026 Intellectual Property Law and Philosophy Workshop (IPLaP). Founded in 2022 as a local academic workshop, IPLaP has expanded into a national conference, with scholars from across the country convening to discuss their research about important theoretical questions raised by intellectual property law, law and technology, and the regulation of creativity, expression, and knowledge.

Professor Eva Subotnik presented her co-authored paper, “Roll the Credits?: Why Attribution Works Differently in Sculpture and Film,” at Boston University School of Law’s 2026 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property (WIPIP) Colloquium. The paper will appear in a special thematic issue of the Sculpture Journal. Professor Subotnik also participated in a Harvard Law School roundtable on Copyright’s Afterlife: Law, Legacy, and Ownership.

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