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 often serves as a television and radio media commentator on
labor, employment, and constitutional law issues, and is frequently
quoted in the New York Times and other major newspapers. He
is the 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, 2008). 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, 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.
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.
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 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 and on Dorothy Day
and the Catholic Worker movement. 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). Since 2001, he has served as General
Counsel pro bono to the Catholic League for Religious and Civil
Rights.
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 (full 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. (Current as of June 24, 2009)