July 13, 2009
With a combined 200 years of teaching experience, St. John’s
School of Law bid farewell to six of its endeared faculty members.
These professors, who retired at the end of the spring semester,
are a gifted, dedicated and loyal group of individuals that further
strengthened the legal education we provide our students. Their
legacies are forever woven into the fabric of the Law School’s
ongoing success. Dean Michael A. Simons aptly remarked that
“We are grateful for their service (as are the thousands of
students they taught), and we wish them well in their
retirement.”
The six distinguished members of the faculty include:
Charles E. Biblowit, Professor of law, who taught Civil
Procedure, Conflict of Laws, and International Business
Transactions;
William D. Harrington, Professor of law, who taught Business
Organizations, Business Planning, Corporations, Corporate Finance
and Securities Regulation;
Margaret N. Kniffin, Professor of law, who taught Contracts,
Remedies, and The Legal Process;
Patrick J. Rohan ’56, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law, who
taught Real Property, Trusts & Estates, Land Use Planning, and
Condominiums, Cooperatives, and Homeowner Associations;
Linda M. Ryan, Director of the Rittenberg Law Library and Research
Professor of Law; and
Philip Weinberg, Professor of Law and Director, Summer Program in
Rome and Director, LL.M. Program for Foreign Lawyers in American
Law.