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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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How We Spent Our Spring Vacation
Instead of heading to sand, surf, and slopes for some downtime, many St. John’s Law students spent spring break sampling law firm practice, immersing in London’s legal and literary worlds, and serving the public interest. Read all about it:
Public Interest on the Auction Block
The Spring Break Service Program is supported by funds raised at the Law School’s annual Public Interest Auction. Hosted by the Public Interest Center and Public Interest Law Student Association, this year’s auction took place virtually over two days and then went live for one night as alumni, faculty, students, and friends bid on great items and experiences for a very worthy cause. Didn’t get a chance to participate? You can still support the Law School's Summer Public Interest Fellowship Program and other public interest initiatives at St. John’s Law. Give online today!
Professors Jessica Bregant (University of Houston), Jennifer K. Robbennolt (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), and Verity Winship (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), will receive the Hugh L. Carey Center’s 2023 Dispute Resolution Advancement Award for research they report in "Perceptions of Settlement,” an article published in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review. Read the full story.
Through six panel sessions, St. John’s Law students explored the legal roots of racial inequity at our Anti-Racism Day organized by Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Vernadette Horne. Many thanks to her, to our student and faculty participants, and to Innocence Project Executive Director Christina Swarns, who delivered a riveting keynote talk sharing insights drawn from her work as one of the country’s top capital defense attorneys and defense organization leaders.
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Alumnae Receive Honors
The Law School’s student-led Women’s Law Society and our Alumnae Leadership Council hosted Celebrating Women in the Law, a special event honoring Lisa Maria Harris ’07 (Outstanding Alumna Award), Lisa Kurbiel '92 (Public Service Award), Erika Lee ’99 (Trailblazer Award), and Megan Quail '13 (Rising Star Award). Congratulations to the honorees, and thank you to SheppardMullin for sponsoring a wonderful evening.
Diversity & Inclusion Take Center Stage
With its sweeping views of lower Manhattan, Tribeca 360° once again provided a gorgeous backdrop for the Law School’s Diversity & Inclusion Gala. This year's Gala honorees were Professors Elaine Chiu and Rosa Castello ‘06, who received the Spirit of Service Award, and Queens College President Frank Wu, the Diversity Champion awardee. View the event photo gallery (via Google Photos).
Real Estate Gets the Spotlight
“Learn the business not only of your clients, but of those they serve, of the people that serve you, and of as much of the industry as you can. It will empower you to be a productive shepherd of progress on any assignment.” That’s just one of the valuable insights that Morrison Foerster partner Alfred Williams ’14 offers in the latest installment of the Mattone Institute’s Real Estate Alumni Spotlight Series.
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Congratulations to Professor Renee Nicole Allen on the forthcoming publication of her article, "Contextualizing the Triggering Event: Colonial White Supremacy, Anti-Blackness, and Black Lives Matter in Italy and the United States," in the Minnesota Journal of International Law. She presented on the article recently as part of the Berger International Speaker Series at Cornell Law School.
Professor Robin Boyle’s co-authored article, “Merging the Bench, Bar, and Law Schools: How a Student Scholars Program Achieves Professional Identity Through Scholarly Writing, Mentorship, and Presentation,” will appear in the UMKC Law Review. The article highlights a co-curricular program that gives students a platform to share their scholarly work while engaging the bench and the bar.
Professor Ned Cavanagh spoke before the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice Competition Law and Policy Seminar on enhanced antitrust enforcement. His presentation was based on two of his recent articles: “A 2020 Agenda for Re-invigorated Antitrust Enforcement: Four Big Ideas” (Cornell Law Review) and “Impediments to Renewed and Re-invigorated Antitrust Enforcement” (forthcoming William & Mary Business Law Review).
Over at Law & Liberty, Professor Mark Movsesian shares a thought piece on the rise of the Nones (people without religious affiliation) in America and another essay titled “American Values Decline with American Community.” You can watch him discuss SCOTUS and religious liberty at a recent Cardozo Law panel program and listen to his latest Legal Spirits podcast episode considering the impact that Nones are likely to have on the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses.
Professor Abel Rodríguez, who joins the Law School faculty this fall, is publishing his forthcoming article, “Lethal Immigration Enforcement,” in the Cornell Law Review.
Professor Jeremy Sheff’s latest article, “Reverse Confusion and the Justification for Trademark Protection,” was published in the George Mason University Law Review. He presented the paper at the Thirteenth Annual Tri-State Region IP Workshop at NYU Law and at the Inaugural Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Sheff published a revised and updated version of his Canada Trademarks Dataset, an open-access comprehensive data resource originally published with an accompanying paper in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. You can read more about Professor Sheff at Faculty Focus, where we share regular updates on St. John’s Law faculty activities and achievements.
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In the Field
Students from our Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA) and Moot Court Honor Society joined the Latino Judges Association to present: Mendez v. Westminster: The Reenactment. Gathering in person and online, participants marked the 76th anniversary of that seminal federal case towards desegregation in which parents sued California school districts that had segregated Mexican American and Chicano schoolchildren.
The Law School's in-house Child Advocacy Clinic was on trial recently in an ongoing federal case brought under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Parental Child Abduction. The Clinic represents the children, who are from Spain. Students have been in attendance and assisting with research and preparation at every step of the trial.
Students from our in-house Securities Arbitration Clinic presented to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to spotlight the vital work of law school clinics that represent, protect, and educate retail investors.
In the Competition Arena
Let’s hear it for the first-year students who advanced to the finals of PTAI’s 2023 Brian Peterson Memorial 1L Competition. Coached by Claire Frink ’23 and Amanda Zoda ’23, the winning team was Julio Almonte, Agustin Bujanda, Times Hwang, and Harmonia Peet. Teaming to take second, and coached by Camille Perbost ’24 and Emily Trumble '24, were 1Ls John Adinolfi, Alexa Blandeburgo, Erin Fader, and Stephanie LaPlante. Well done, all!
Congratulations to Matthew Oster '24, who took home the 2023 Outstanding Advocate award at the South Texas Mock Trial Challenge. Matt was coached by Brian Hughes '07 and Jana McNulty.
Kudos to Ariston Papeo '23, who won Outstanding Advocate at the Trials and Tribulations mock trial competition hosted by University of South Carolina School of Law. And let’s give a virtual shout out to the entire PTAI team for advancing to the competition’s semifinals.
Paul Papatoniou '25, Ingrid Angulo '25, Aria Lugo '25, and Sarah Leveque '25 advanced to the finals of our Dispute Resolution Society's 1L Internal Negotiation Competition. Paul and Ingrid teamed to take first place, and all four students did an excellent job competing in this unique dispute resolution forum hosted in affiliation with the Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution.
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