Please join the Academic Committee for a conversation about pathways into legal academia. RSVP is required. Food will be served

Moderator: Suzanne A. Kim, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School

Speakers

Elaine M. Chiu is Professor of Law and a Faculty Director of the Ronald H. Brown Center of Civil Rights at St. John’s University School of Law in New YorkCity. She is a respected scholar who has written about difficult issues in contemporary criminal justice including intimate partner violence, and the intersection of cultural beliefs and criminal liability. At the Ron Brown Center, Professor Chiu’s work focuses on advancing the legal scholarship of students and other academics through the Center’s Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. She also advises and mentors the Center’s honor students known as the Ron Brown Scholars and a student organization called the Coalition for Social Justice. Finally, the Center runs a premier law school pipeline program for college students from diverse backgrounds every summer. The Ron Brown Law School Prep Program for College Students has proudly helped almost 200 individuals attend more than 54 different law schools and become lawyers throughout the country.

Prior to coming to St. John's, Professor Chiu was a Research Fellow at Columbia University School of Law, a Climenko-Thayer Teaching Fellow at Harvard Law School, an adjunct faculty member at Cardozo Law School. Before teaching, she was an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan.

Professor Chiu is a cum laude graduate of Cornell University and earned her JD at Columbia University School of Law where she was a Senior Editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.


Donna Hae Kyun Lee, Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Programs and Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law, is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where she was an Articles Editor for the NYU Law Review, and later served as the President of the Black, Latino, Asian Pacific American Law Alumni Association. She received her B.A. in history from Brown University. Following law school, Professor Lee clerked on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She then worked at the Civil Appeals and Law Reform Unit of the Legal Aid Society in New York City, and at the National Prison Project of the ACLU Foundation in Washington, D.C. Professor Lee joined the faculty of the Law School to teach in the Battered Women’s Rights Clinic, an interdisciplinary clinic that addresses domestic violence issues from legal and social work perspectives.

Youngjae Lee is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at Fordham University School of Law and Director of the Fordham-Sungkyunkwan Summer Program in Seoul, Korea.  Lee’s research focuses on criminal law and criminal procedure, and he teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, international criminal law, international white collar crime, and torts.  He joined the Fordham faculty in fall 2005 and served as the chair of the Faculty Appointments Committee in 2013-2015.  Before Fordham, he was an Alexander Fellow at NYU School of Law in 2003-2005.  He is a 1995 graduate of Swarthmore College and a 1999 graduate of Harvard Law School.