David L. Gregory, the Dorothy Day
Professor of Law, has taught at the St. John’s University School of
Law since August, 1982. He was tenured in 1985, and promoted to
full professor in 1986. He was appointed the Kenneth Wang Research
Professor of Law for the 1987-88 academic year. In August, 2006, he
was appointed the inaugural chairholder of the Dorothy Day
Professorship. Prior to joining the St. John’s Law faculty in 1982,
Professor Gregory was an equal employment opportunity counselor
with the Postal Service, a labor relations representative with Ford
Motor Company, and an attorney with a prominent management labor
and employment law firm in Detroit.
He hosts the annual management lawyers’ colloquium at the
School of Law, now in its 13th year. He brings major speakers to
the School of Law every year, ranging from Cesar Chavez in 1987 to
AFL-CIO General Counsel John Hiatt 2009, and including two Chairmen
of the National Labor Relations Board (Bill Gould in 1996 and Peter
Hurtgen in 2001) and Solicitor General of the United States Drew
Days III in 1996.
He often serves as a media commentator on labor, employment, and
constitutional law issues, regularly appears on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN,
CNBC, FOX and CSPAN television programs, and is frequently quoted
in the New York Times and other major newspapers. He is the
co-author of Modern Labor Law in the Public and Private
Sectors (Lexis, Forthcoming, 2011) (with S. Harris, J. Slater,
and A. Lofaso). He is also co-author of Labor-Management
Relations and the Law (Foundation Press, 1999), and the editor
of Labor and the Constitution (Garland Press, 1999) and of Labor
Law (N.Y.U. and Dartmouth Presses, 1993), a contributing author for
the treatise How Arbitration Works (American Bar
Association and BNA Press, 5th and 6th Edition and supplements)
and a chapter editor and author for the treatise,
Discipline and Discharge in Arbitration (American Bar
Association and BNA Press, 2nd Edition, 2009). He has over
two hundred academic and professional publications, including more
than one hundred articles and book reviews in leading law journals,
including those of Duke, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Texas, Wisconsin,
Notre Dame, Boston College, Boston University, Tulane, George
Washington, Georgia, William and Mary, Washington and Lee, Fordham,
Villanova, Loyola, and St. John’s. His research has been
supported twice by the AFL-CIO Fund for Labor Studies at the
University of Michigan Law School.
He teaches a dozen different labor, employment, and
constitutional law courses, concentrating especially on Labor Law,
Advanced Labor Law, Employment Law, and Employment Discrimination.
He has also taught Public Sector Labor and Employment Law, Labor
and Employment Arbitration, Constitutional Law, Constitutional
Theory, Negotiations, and Jurisprudence.
In 1998, his was a prize-winning paper for the St. John’s
Vincentian Center for Church and Society. In 1999, he
received the St. John’s University Founder’s Day Award. In
2004 (Inaugural Award) and 2006, he received the Student Bar
Association’s Faculty Advisor and Mentor of the Year Award. In
2008, he received the Faculty Outstanding Achievement Award,
conferred by the President of St. John’s University. Professor
Gregory is faculty advisor to the St. John’s Labor Relations and
Employment Law Society, 1982-Present; the Federalist Society, 1992
founding of the Chapter at St. John’s—Present; and, the Irish Law
Students, 2000-Present.
He has lectured at the law schools of Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame,
Illinois, Villanova, Montana, Baylor, Santa Clara, Stetson, Brigham
Young, St. Thomas, and Capital Universities, and at University
College, Dublin, Ireland, the Pontifical University of the Holy
Cross, Rome, the Jesuit Curia, Rome, Queen Mary University of
London, New York University, Fordham University, Marquette
University, College of the Holy Cross, De Paul University, the
University of Dayton, Mount Sinai Medical School, Molloy College,
City University of New York, State University of New York, the New
York City Police Academy, and the Catholic Worker. He has
been a visiting adjunct professor at the University of Colorado,
Brooklyn, Hofstra, and New York Law Schools, 1992-1998. In
1997, he was a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute
Department of Law in Florence, Italy.
Professor Gregory is a member of the American Bar Foundation
(limited to one-third of one percent of the lawyers in the United
States), American Law Institute, Who’s Who in American Law,
the Society of Policy Scientists, the Fellowship of Catholic
Scholars, the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, Catholic
Scholars for Worker Justice, the Michigan, New York, and American
Bar Associations, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New
York (Labor and Employment Law, Arbitration, Civil Rights, and
Employee Benefits Committees). He has been the Chairperson of
the Labor and Employment Law (1996) and Employment Discrimination
Sections (2000) of the Association of American Law Schools, and
Chair of the Law School Liaisons Committee of the Executive
Committee of the Labor Law Section of the New York State Bar
Association (1994-2001).
He has authored the first comprehensive law review articles ever
published on Catholic social teaching on labor, on Dorothy Day and
the Catholic Worker movement, and on Blessed Frederic Ozanam, the
founder of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. See, e.g.:
Catholic Labor Theory and the Transformation of Work, 45 Washington
and Lee Law Review 119-157 (1988); Catholic Social Teaching on
Work, 49 Labor Law Journal 912 (1998); Dorothy Day’s
Lessons for the Transformation of Work, 14 Hofstra Labor Law
Journal 57 (1996); Dorothy Day, Workers’ Rights and Catholic
Authenticity, 26 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1371 (1999); Blessed
Frederic Ozanam: Building the Good Society, 3 St. Thomas Law
Journal 21 (2005). Since 2001, he has served as General Counsel pro
bono to the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
Professor Gregory has co-chaired many major international
conferences, including: the Transatlantic Perspectives on Labor
Conference at the University College Dublin Law School in July,
2000, attended by more than two hundred persons, with more than 90
speakers on more than 20 panels, and with keynote remarks by former
Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board William B. Gould IV
(with selected papers published in 14 New York International Law
Review 1 (2001); the national conference of the
religiously-affiliated law schools at St. John’s in July, 2000
(published in 74 St. John’s Law Review 565 (2000). He co-chaired,
and St. John’s co-sponsored, the Transatlantic Perspectives on
Alternative Dispute Resolution Conference, July 26-28, at the Queen
Mary University of London campus, in London’s Charterhouse Square.
The opening reception was at Lincoln’s Inn, and the conference
banquet was at the Armourers’ Guild Hall. The Right Honorable Lord
Harry Woolf, immediate past Lord Chief Justice of England and
Wales, was the keynote speaker. There were more than fifty
panelists on a dozen different panels, with more than 120 general
attendees, including Supreme Court members from several nations,
law professors, arbitrators and mediators, and advocates from
around the world. The conference papers were published in 81 St.
John’s Law Review 1 (2007); and, on October 26-27, 2007, Professor
Gregory co-chaired and hosted the fifteenth annual conference of
the Society of Catholic Social Scientists at St. John’s (with more
than 400 attendees, the single largest academic conference in the
history of the School of Law, with selected papers published in 47
Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 1 (2008).
He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, and he is
on the Labor and Employment Arbitrator Panels of the American
Arbitration Association, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service, the New York State Public Employment Relations Board, the
New York City Office of Collective Bargaining, and Nassau County,
New York and the Civil Service Employees Association. He is
also a designated arbitrator on many private and public sector
labor contracts.
Professor Gregory received his B.A. cum laude from the
Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in 1973, where
he was a Basselin Scholar (academic merit full tuition, room, and
board scholarship) in the Honors Program of the School of
Philosophy. His M.B.A. in labor relations is from the Wayne
State University Graduate School of Business, 1977, and his J.D.
magna cum laude is from the University of Detroit School of Law,
1980. He did his graduate work in law at the Yale University Law
School, where he earned his LL.M. in 1982 and the Doctorate in the
Science of Jurisprudence, the highest degree in law, J.S.D., in
1987.