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Welcome to See infra, our e-newsletter delivering a sampling of news from St. John's Law.
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Bringing St. John's Law to the World . . .
In July, our Center for Law and Religion and frequent partner LUMSA University co-hosted an academic conference on Liberalism’s Limits: Religious Exemptions and Hate Speech. Organized by the Center's co-directors, Professors Marc DeGirolami and Mark Movsesian, and LUMSA Professor Monica Lugato, the one-day event took place on LUMSA's campus in Rome, Italy and drew scholars from the United States and Europe. Read all about it.
. . . And Into Our Community
Hats off to Oliver Colbert and the rest of our J.D. Admissions team for coordinating Assembling a Dream Team for the Court . . . Room: An Introduction to Sports Law for High School Students. Presented in partnership with the Long Island Nets and the New York Liberty organizations, this two-week summer program gives local high school students an unrivaled opportunity to explore their interests at the intersection of sports law and civil rights. It's just one of the initiatives the Law School oversees to develop a pipeline to law school for historically minoritized and underrepresented groups.
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| Spotlight on Real Estate
Check out the Mattone Family Institute for Real Estate Law's latest Real Estate Alumni Spotlight, part of an ongoing series featuring St. John's Law alumni who work in and around the dynamic real estate industry. In the spotlight this month is Alston & Bird partner Meryl Diamond '99.
A Trio of Firsts
Ethic, the tech-driven asset management platform that powers personalization for advisors, today announced the appointment of Eugenie ("Genie") Cesar-Fabian '04 as its first General Counsel. In this new role, among other responsibilities, she will lead the buildout of the company's internal legal department and advise leadership on regulatory matters, intellectual property law, general corporate transactions, and more. Read Ethic's press release.
Nestor H. Diaz '89 just became the first Dominican man elected to preside in Queens Civil Court. Sidebar: Judge Diaz is married to Iris Diaz, the Law School's longtime Assistant Director of Special Events. View the media coverage.
Lauren Schuster '06 has joined the Urban Resource Institute (URI) as Vice President of Government Affairs. In this brand-new position for the organization, she will bring URI's policy initiatives to the forefront of state, city, and local government. Read more.
Share Your News
We've moved Class Notes, Births, Marriages, and In Memoriam from our print magazine to our online news portal, stjohnslawseeinfra.com. To share your updates, please email them to Brian Woods at brian.woods@stjohns.edu. We look forward to hearing from you!
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| Real-World Scholarship
Among many notable activities and achievements this past academic year, Professor Gina Calabrese was instrumental in advocating for the passage of New York's Consumer Credit Families Act, which changed state court procedures in consumer credit actions, safeguarding the legal rights of consumers sued for debt–nearly all of whom do not have attorneys. She's now consulting on a similar initiative being proposed on a national scale by the Uniform Law Commission.
Professor Elayne Greenberg presented Blinding Justice and Video Conferencing? as part of a panel on Pandemic Impacts on Remote Justice at the International Association for Conflict Management's Annual Program. Her fuller discussion on this evolving issue will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Stetson Law Review.
The praise continues for Professor Rosemary Salomone's latest book, The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language (Oxford University Press). You can listen in as she talks about her research and writing with The New Books Network, a consortium of author-interview podcast channels covering 100+ subjects, disciplines, and genres reaching a million people globally each month.
Professor Ray Warner presented his paper, "Collectivity – Converging EU and US Approaches," at the INSOL London Academics Colloquium. The paper explores the challenge presented by increasingly popular bankruptcy restructuring plans that restructure only one class of claims—usually publicly traded bond debt—while leaving all other creditors unaffected. Those plans, Professor Warner asserts, don't fit the traditional view that insolvency proceedings must be collective and involve all creditors.
In the Media
In this Newsweek opinion piece, Professor John Q. Barrett looks at the Justice Department's criminal investigation of Donald Trump and others who worked to subvert the 2020 election, writing: "What DOJ is doing, and what it will continue to do, is appropriately aggressive, fact-based investigative work. Investigating Trump and then deciding whether he should be prosecuted could continue into 2023. So be it. It is the right, ordinary way of federal criminal investigations."
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Professor Michael Perino offers a historical take on House Oversight and Reform Committee subpoena avoidance, drawing from his book: The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance.
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| Applause, Applause
Love this LinkedIn post, and love seeing Apple summer intern Camille Castle '24 in the group shot. Back in November, as she was settling into her first semester of law school, we featured Camille in our Humans of St. John's Law story series.
Victoria Giorgio '23 has earned the inaugural Hon. Dorothy T. Eisenberg Women in the Law "Trailblazer" Award. Established by the Long Island Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association in honor and memory of Judge Eisenberg—who served in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York for 25 years—the award recognizes a rising second-or third-year law student who demonstrates the same personal characteristics representative of Judge Eisenberg, such as unwavering determination, civility, and commitment to continuing to pave the way for future generations of women professionals. Congratulations, Victoria!
Mentor a Student
Mentor Connect, the Law School's robust online mentoring platform brings students seeking career guidance together with alumni who are excited to give it. Mentees and mentors connect across aligned professional interests and aspirations and common involvement in St. John's Law journals, co-curricular activities, academic centers, shared identity groups, and student organizations, among other connecting points. To learn more about this wonderful opportunity for alumni to give back and make a difference, view the Mentor Connect guide. Ready to become a mentor? Register today.
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Please email Lori Herz, See infra's Managing Editor and Lead Writer, at herzl@stjohns.edu.
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