Marc O. DeGirolami

Assistant Professor, Assistant Director

Center for Law and Religion
School of Law

St. John's University

Professor DeGirolami completed his undergraduate work at Duke, earned a M.A. in Romance Languages and Literature at Harvard, his J.D. at Boston University School of Law and both his J.S.D. and LL.M. at Columbia Law. He has clerked for US District Judge William Smith of Rhode Island and US Circuit Court Judge Jerome Farris of Seattle, before coming to St. John’s where he teaches law and religion, as well as criminal law with an emphasis on theories of punishment. Marc taught at Columbia Law School and at the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University. Marc has presented and published widely and is currently working on “Tragedy and History: The Quality of Religious Liberty” (Harvard University Press).

 

Academic Background

J.D., Boston University School of Law; LL.M., J.S.D., Columbia University School of Law

Research Interests

Law and Religion, Criminal Law

Affiliation with the Center

Vincentian Research Fellow,
Class of 2011

Food for Thought

Catholic universities will be particularly attentive to the poorest and to those who suffer economic, social, cultural or religious injustice. This responsibility begins within the academic community but it also finds application beyond it.

Pope John Paul II, Ex Corde Ecclesiae (40)