Professor Krishnakumar teaches Legislation, Administrative Law,
and Introduction to Law. In 2009 and 2011 she received Dean's
Teaching Awards for these courses.
Professor Krishnakumar's scholarship focuses on both statutory
interpretation and the legislative process; several of her early
articles examine the congressional budget process and lobbying
regulations, while her most recent work explores interpretive
trends in the Supreme Court's statutory jurisprudence. Her
articles have appeared in the Notre Dame Law Review,
the William & Mary Law Review, the Hastings
Law Journal, the Alabama Law Review, and the
Harvard Journal on Legislation. Professor
Krishnakumar was the 2011-2012 Chair of the Legislation and Law of
the Political Process Section of the Association of American Law
Schools and is the editor of the SRRN eJournal on Legislation and
Statutory Interpretation.
Professor Krishnakumar holds an A.B. (with
distinction in Political Science) from Stanford University and
a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a Coker Teaching Fellow,
served as the Chair of the Notes Committee for the Yale Law
Journal, and was a Senior Editor on the Yale Law and
Policy Review.
Before teaching, Professor Krishnakumar clerked for
the Hon. José A. Cabranes on the United States Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit and practiced law at Mayer, Brown,
Rowe & Maw and Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.
From 2004 to 2006, she was a visiting professor at Touro Law
School, where she won the Visiting Professor of the Year Award in
2005.
Professor Krishnakumar joined the St. John's faculty in
2006.
Selected
Publications
The Anti-Messiness Principle in
Statutory Interpretation, 87 Notre Dame L. Rev. __
(forthcoming 2012) (ssrn
link).
Passive Voice References in
Statutory Interpretation, 76 Brooklyn L.Rev. 941 (2011)
(symposium contribution by invitation).
Statutory Interpretation in the
Roberts Court's First Era: An Empirical and Doctrinal
Analysis, 62 Hastings L.J. 221 (2010) (ssrn
link).
The Hidden Legacy of Holy Trinity
Church: The Unique National Institution Canon, 51
William & Mary L. Rev. 1053 (2009) (ssrn
link).
Representation Reinforcement:
A Legislative Solution to a Legislative Process Problem,
46 Harv. J. on Legisl. 1 (2009) (ssrn
link).
Towards A Madisonian,
Interest-Group-Based Approach To Lobbying Regulation, 58 Ala.
L. Rev. 513 (2007) (ssrn
link).
In Defense of the Debt Limit
Statute, 42 Harv. J. on Legisl. 135 (2005) (ssrn
link).
On the Evolution of the Canonical
Dissent in Supreme Court Jurisprudence, 52 Rutgers L.R. 781
(2000) (ssrn
link).
Note, Reconciliation & The
Fiscal Constitution: The Anatomy of the 1995-96 Budget Train
Wreck, 35 Harv. J. on Legisl. 589 (1998) (ssrn
link).