Assistant Professor of Law
Marc O. DeGirolami joined the St. John’s faculty in 2009. He
teaches Criminal Law, Professional Responsibility, and Law &
Religion.
Professor DeGirolami gradated cum laude from Duke
University and received his J.D. cum laude from Boston
University School of Law. He holds a masters degree from
Harvard University and an LL.M. from Columbia Law
School, where he is a candidate for a J.S.D. At
Columbia, he was a James Kent Scholar and a Bretzfelder Fellow in
Constitutional Law, and he won the Walter Gellhorn Prize awarded
for the highest grade-point average in the class. Following
law school, he clerked for Judge William E. Smith of the U.S.
District Court for the District of Rhode Island and Judge Jerome
Farris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
His professional experience includes service as an Assistant
District Attorney in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to
joining the St. John’s faculty, he taught legal research and
writing as an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School, and then
served as a Visiting Assistant Professor and Scholar in
Residence at Catholic University’s Columbus School of
Law.
Professor DeGirolami’s scholarship focuses on Law and Religion and
Criminal Law. His most recent articles are “The Problem of
Religious Learning,” published in the Boston College Law
Review, and “Culpability in Creating the Choice of Evils,”
published in the Alabama Law Review. He has
also published articles in the Arkansas Law Review, the
San Diego Law Review, and the St. John’s Law
Review, among others.