Colleagues,

Welcome to my first issue of St. John’s Law Faculty News, a recurring newsletter featuring the achievements and activities of our full-time faculty.

Informed by their legal scholarship and practical experience in the field, each member of our faculty brings a range of gifts as educators that make our Law School immeasurably better. And, together, they are moving St. John’s Law forward into our next century of excellence, prominence, and impact.

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

Ashley B. Armstrong joins us as an Assistant Professor of Legal Writing. Her scholarship focuses on refugee and human rights law, legal skills pedagogy, and lawyer well-being. 

Tyler Rose Clemons is an Assistant Professor of Law teaching evidence and constitutional law. She writes about the interactions between the law and the lived experiences of marginalized people.

Louis Jim joins us as an Associate Professor of Legal Writing. His current research focuses on the perpetuation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as outsiders through federal and state laws, whether traditional methods of teaching legal communication concepts still apply, and using technology to better teach today’s law students.

Evelyn Malavé is an Assistant Professor of Law whose research focuses on under-scrutinized levers of decision-making and power in state criminal courts, with an emphasis on problem-solving courts.

Benjamin Sundholm, who joins St. John’s as an Assistant Professor of Law, researches and writes about traditional tort doctrines that are needed in response to the use of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence technologies in a variety of contexts, including healthcare. He is also interested in questions about the nature of law.

Read On . . .

You can learn more about these and other accomplished professors who have joined our full-time faculty over the past several years by visiting our Faculty News webpage.

“Legal Academia’s White Gaze,” an article by Professor Renee Nicole Allen, will be published in the Minnesota Law Review.  

Professor Anna Arons’ article, “Family Regulation Prosecutors,” will appear in a forthcoming issue of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.  

Professor Noa Ben-Asher’s book, Secular-Christian Social Justice, will be published by NYU Press in 2025.

In his essay for the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare, Professor Christopher Borgen spotlights the latest international dispute over the placement of weapons in space. 

Professor Robin Boyle has co-authored a book, Persuasive Advocacy in Action: A Workbook for Law Students (Carolina Academic Press), designed to help students hone their skills in persuasive legal writing and oral advocacy. Her co-authored article, "Merging the Bench, Bar, and Law Schools: How a Student Scholars Program Achieves Professional Identity Through Scholarly Writing, Mentorship, and Presentation," has been published in the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law's UMKC Law Review.

The United Nations–International Labor Office (ILO) report, “Realizing decent work in the platform economy,” cites two articles by Professor Miriam Cherry: “Working for (Virtually) Minimum Wage: Applying the Fair Labor Standards Act in Cyberspace” (Alabama Law Review), and “Regulatory Options for Conflicts of Law and Jurisdictional Issues in the On-demand Economy” (ILO). 

In her dissenting opinion in Barlow v. Washington, Washington Supreme Court Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis cited Professor Philip Lee’s  article, “The Curious Life of In Loco Parentis at American Universities.” Professor Lee’s article, “SFFA v. Harvard: Racial Triangulation and the Invidious Myth of Colorblindness,” will appear in the Maryland Law Review and his article “Critical Race Thinking in a Pro-Black Space: An Asian American Law Professor’s Reflections on Teaching at an HBCU,” will be published in the Howard Law Journal. 

At the The Volokh Conspiracy blog, Professor Mark Movsesian contributed an opinion piece on a proposed New York State bill that would require fast-food restaurants at thruway rest stops to open seven days a week. He also shared “Some Quick Thoughts on the Oklahoma Charter School Case.”

Professor Mark Niles’ new article, “Student Protests and ‘Fighting Words’: Critical Race Theory and the Regulation of Hate Speech on Campus,” will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Albany Law Review.

Professor Abel Rodríguez’s article, “Lethal Immigration Enforcement,” appears in the Cornell Law Review. 

Professor Rosemary Salomone’s latest book, The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language (Oxford University Press) is out in paperback, with an updated preface. A winner of the prestigious 2023 Premio Pavese Prize in Non-Fiction, the book has earned high praise from the New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, the Economist, and others. An excerpt from the book was published in The Millions, an online literary magazine, and an excerpt adapted from the book, “How English’s Global Dominance Fails Us,” appeared in an online edition of Time magazine.

Professor Keith Sharfman has published a short antitrust article, “Why Algorithmic Pricing Rather Benefits Consumers,” about the underappreciated benefits to consumers of real estate property management software. 

Professor Jeremy Sheff presented his paper, “An Empirical Evaluation of the Trademark Modernization Act,” at the University of Houston Law Center’s Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law Annual Symposium. The paper will be published in the Houston Law Review. Professor Sheff’s latest article, “Dividing Trademark Use,” has been accepted for publication in the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts and was workshopped at the Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable at Harvard Law School. 

Professor Eva Subotnik published one co-authored article, “Copyright’s Capacity Gap” in the UC Davis Law Review. She published another co-authored article, “What the Warhol Court Got Wrong: Use as an Artist Reference and the Derivative Work Doctrine,” which she presented at NYU’s 2024 Tri-State Region IP Workshop, in the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts. 

Professor Benjamin Sundholm’s forthcoming paper, “Navigating the Frontiers of MedTech,” was workshopped at the Seventh Junior Faculty Forum for Law and STEM at Penn Carey Law School. The paper, which analyzes the doctrinal reforms that are needed in response to the use of adaptative and opaque artificial intelligence systems in medicine, will be published in the Arizona State Law Journal. 

Read On . . .

For more St. John’s Law faculty news, visit our Faculty Focus blog produced by Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship Eva Subotnik. Professor Subotnik also organizes our annual Faculty Workshop Series that brings scholars from across the country together to discuss their current research and receive feedback on their works-in-progress from our faculty. 

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