The St. John’s University School of Law

Jamaica, Queens, New York 11439

Charles J. Russo, J.D., Ed. D., is the Joseph Panzer Chair in Education in the School of Education and Allied Professions and Adjunct Professor in the School of Law at the University of Dayton. The 1998-99 President of the Education Law Association, and 2002 recipient of its McGhehey (Achievement) Award, Dr. Russo has authored or co-authored more than 170 articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited twenty-four books, and has in excess of 600 publications. He also speaks extensively on issues in Education. Since April 1997 Dr. Russo made fourteen trips to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he worked with the Office of the Ombudsman on civil rights and religious freedom as well as with the Faculty of Education on improving schooling in Bosnia. He also worked with officials at South East European University in Tetovo, Macdeonia. In addition to having spoken in twenty nations on six continents, he taught summer courses in England and Spain and served as a Visiting Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia; the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia; South East European University, Macedonia; the Potchefstroom Campus of Northwest University in Potchefstroom, South Africa; and the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. Before joining the Faculty at the University of Dayton as Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Administration in July 1996, Dr. Russo taught at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, from August 1992 to July 1996 and at Fordham University in his native New York City from September 1989 to July 1992. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree (Classical Civilization) (1972), Juris Doctor Degree (1983), and Doctor of Education* degrees (Educational Administration and Supervision) (1989) from St, John’s University in New York City. He received a Master of Divinity degree from the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, New York (1978). He received a Ph.D. Honoris Causa from Potchefstroom University, now the Potchefstroom Campus of Northwest University, in Potchefstroom, South Africa, in May 2004, for his contributions to the field of Education Law. Dr. Russo’s wife is a pre-school teacher, his son is preparing to attend law school in 2007 and his daughter is a third year student at the University of Dayton.