Professor Krishnakumar is the Mary C. Daly Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship at St. John’s University School of Law. She teaches Legislation and Statutory Interpretation, Administrative Law, Trusts and Estates, and Introduction to Law.
Professor Krishnakumar’s scholarship focuses on statutory interpretation and the legislative process. Several of her early articles examine the congressional budget process and lobbying regulations, while her most recent work explores interpretive trends in the Supreme Court’s statutory jurisprudence. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Texas Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the Harvard Journal on Legislation, among others. Professor Krishnakumar is a past Chair of the Legislation Section of the Association of American Law Schools, the current editor of the SSRN eJournal on Legislation and Statutory Interpretation, and a contributor to Rick Hasen’s Election Law Blog, http://electionlawblog.org/. She has received several St. John’s Dean’s Teaching Awards, Dean’s Scholarship Awards, and the University’s Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award.
Professor Krishnakumar holds an A.B. with distinction from Stanford University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. While at Yale she was Chair of the Notes Committee for the Yale Law Journal, a Senior Editor on the Yale Law and Policy Review, and a Coker Teaching Fellow in Constitutional Law.
Professor Krishnakumar clerked for the Hon. José A. Cabranes on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She practiced in the appellate litigation group at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw and in the general litigation group at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. From 2004 to 2006, she was a visiting professor at Touro Law School, where she was named the “Visiting Professor of the Year” by the Student Bar Association in 2005.
