Professor Movsesian joined the St. John’s faculty in 2007 as the
Frederick A. Whitney Professor of Contract Law. He writes in
contracts and international law, and his articles have
appeared in the Harvard, North Carolina, and
Washington & Lee Law Reviews, the American Journal
of International Law, the Harvard International Law
Journal, the Virginia Journal of International Law,
and many others. He has been a visiting professor at Notre
Dame and Cardozo Law Schools and has delivered papers at numerous
workshops in the United States and Europe. In addition to
Contracts, he teaches Comparative Law & Religion and
International Commercial Arbitration.
Professor Movsesian graduated summa cum laude from
Harvard College and magna cum laude from Harvard Law
School. In law school, he was an editor of the Harvard
Law Review and a recipient of the Sears Prize, awarded to the
two highest-ranking students in the second-year class. He
clerked for Justice David H. Souter of the Supreme Court of the
United States and served as as an attorney-advisor in the Office of
Legal Counsel at the United States Department of the Justice.
Before starting at St. John's, he was the Max Schmertz
Distinguished Professor of Law at Hofstra.