Deborah Denno comments to Inside Fordham on her seminar and lecture series, now in its third cycle, to prepare law students for fields of science that are“going to be very much a part of their working lives, no matter what area of law they go into.”
It’s important for students to get out of the box of law, branch into other disciplines, and to become comfortable and accustomed to talking to nonlawyers and experts in other fields—particularly technical fields such as neuroscience, biology, physiology, and more before they graduate,” said Denno. “They’ll be working with [such]experts when they are lawyers.”
Denno said she opened up the classes to the public because the lineup of stellar speakers will draw high interest beyond just a student audience; the series has already attracted members of the medical profession and lifelong learners from the community.
“Fordham is a place for the interchange of ideas,” she said. “It’s part of our mission.”
The story ran in Inside Fordham on September 23, 2013