July 13, 2009
Professors Keith Sharfman and Marc O. DeGirolami will join the
faculty at the Law School in the Fall 2009 semester.
Professor Keith Sharfman joins St. John’s as a Visiting
Professor of Law from Marquette University Law School. He
will further bolster the Law School's strong program in
bankruptcy. Professor Marc O. DeGirolami joins St. John’s as
an Assistant Professor of Law, bringing his strengths in the areas
of criminal law, professional responsibility, and law &
religion.
Keith
Sharfman
Visiting Professor of Law
B.A., Johns Hopkins University;
J.D., University of Chicago Law School
Keith Sharfman teaches and writes in the areas of antitrust,
bankruptcy, commercial law, corporate finance, corporate
reorganization, law and economics, and legal valuation. He
received a B.A. in economics and international relations from Johns
Hopkins and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. Following law
school, he clerked for Judge Frank Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then was an associate at Latham
& Watkins, where he worked on a wide range of antitrust,
bankruptcy, corporate finance, and intellectual property
matters.
For more than a decade, Professor Sharfman has published
extensively in a variety of scholarly journals. His articles
include “Contractual Valuation Mechanisms and Corporate Law,” 2
Virginia Law & Business Review 53 (2007); “Judicial
Valuation Behavior: Some Evidence from Bankruptcy,” 32 Florida
State University Law Review 387 (2005); “Derivative Suits in
Bankruptcy,” 10 Stanford Journal of Law, Business &
Finance 1 (2004); “Valuation Averaging: A New Procedure for
Resolving Valuation Disputes,” 88 Minnesota Law Review 357
(2003); and “Is It Ever Too Late for Innocence?,” 64 University
of Pittsburgh Law Review 263 (2003) (with George C. Thomas et
al.).
In recognition of his scholarship, the National Conference of
Bankruptcy Judges selected Professor Sharfman in 2006 as an
American Bankruptcy Law Journal Fellow, and in 2007 he became a
member of the Journal’s editorial advisory board.
Marc O.
DeGirolami
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., Duke University;
M.A., Harvard University;
J.D., Boston University School of Law;
LL.M., Columbia Law School
Marc DeGirolami comes to St. John’s from Catholic University’s
Columbus School of Law, where he has been a Visiting Assistant
Professor and Scholar- in-Residence. He has also taught legal
research and writing as an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law
School. He will teach Criminal Law, Professional
Responsibility, and Law & Religion at St. John’s.
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, and is a
candidate for a J.S.D. at Columbia. While 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.
Professor DeGirolami has already distinguished himself with a
strong record of scholarly achievement. His most recent
articles are “The Problem of Religious Learning,” published in the
Boston College Law Review, and “Culpability in Creating
Criminal Necessity,” 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.