After nearly 15 years, I am leaving St. John’s Law School and the Mattone Center for Law and Religion. My professional life has been spent very happily here, in equable and productive study and teaching with my excellent, learned friend and colleague, Mark Movsesian. I have been proud of our Center’s work–from its large undertakings, such as our Tradition Project, to its smaller labors in our occasional seminars, podcasts, and our Reading Society (of which I have grown particularly fond). It has been an honor and delight for me to be a part of all of it.

Permit me to thank all of the participants and supporters that have made the work of our Center such a great joy for me over the years. In an era of turmoil for American higher education, the Center will live on in my memory as an example, and a beacon, of what true liberal learning in the law, at its finest, can be. For my cherished St. John’s students and, in teaching them, for me. MOD