Fordham Law School is pleased to announce the addition of four new faculty members. Atinuke “Tinu” Adediran, Julie Chi-hye Suk, and Ilene Strauss will join the full-time faculty starting in the fall semester. John R. Brooks will be in residence starting in the fall and joining the full-time faculty in fall 2022. Ilene Strauss will become the school’s new faculty director of the legal writing and lawyering programs.
“We are excited to welcome such a diverse and accomplished group of professors to a faculty that already is considered one of the best in the country,” said Fordham Law Dean Matthew Diller. “We look forward to the contributions they will make as legal scholars, as teachers and as members of the Fordham Law community.”
Atinuke “Tinu” Adediran
Atinuke “Tinu” Adediran comes to Fordham from Boston College Law School, where she was the David and Pamela Donohue Assistant Professor of Business Law.
An interdisciplinary empirical scholar, her research focuses on inequality in law and the legal profession, with particular expertise in racial, ethnic, gender, and professional inequities, corporate social responsibility and philanthropy by law firms and corporations. Before joining the Boston College law faculty, she was an Earl B. Dickerson Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught a seminar on access to justice. She began her legal career as an associate in the litigation department of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York. Adediran received her B.S. from Long Island University, a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Northwestern University, where she was a Ford Foundation fellow.
John Brooks
John Brooks spent the fall 2020 semester at Fordham as a visiting professor from Georgetown University Law Center, where he has been a professor since 2011.
Brooks’s research focuses on tax law, public finance, social insurance, and related issues in federal fiscal and budget policy. In addition to contributing to tax and fiscal theory generally, Brooks also focuses on “tax-adjacent” areas of fiscal policy, especially the federal student loan program, and his work seeks to better understand the array of government fiscal tools beyond classic taxing and spending. He is currently writing a book on these topics for Yale University Press. He received his A.B. from Harvard College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law & Economics and received the Sidney I. Roberts Prize in taxation. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Norman H. Stahl of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, as well as practiced tax law at Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston.
Ilene Strauss was the director of legal writing and moot court programs at Columbia Law School, where she was responsible for developing and implementing the curricula for the first-year and LL.M. legal writing programs and overseeing Columbia’s extensive moot court program. She comes to Fordham as a clinical professor to lead the entire legal writing and lawyering programs at the Law School.
Prior to being at Columbia, Strauss practiced commercial litigation at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler and Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett and clerked for the Hon. Emilio M. Garza of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She received her A.B. from Brown University and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School (where she served as an editor of the Michigan Law Review).
Julie Chi-hye Suk
Julie Chi-hye Suk comes from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she served as dean for Master’s Programs and professor of sociology, political science, and liberal studies, and from Yale Law School, where she was a Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law.
Suk is an interdisciplinary and comparative legal scholar, researching equality at the intersection of law, history, sociology, and politics in the United States and globally. She has authored dozens of articles and book chapters about comparative constitutional law; the procedural implementation of equality norms in the United States and Europe; gender quotas; and women, work, and family. Her 2020 book, We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment, is the first and only book to chronicle and assess the twenty-first century revival of the Equal Rights Amendment, culminating in Virginia’s ratification in 2020.
Prior to joining The CUNY Graduate Center, Suk was a law professor for 13 years at Cardozo Law School in New York, and taught as a visiting professor at the law schools at Harvard, Columbia, University of Chicago, and UCLA. She has also been a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and LUISS-Guido Carli in Rome.
Suk received her doctorate in politics from Oxford University (where she held a Marshall Scholarship) and her J.D. from Yale Law School (where she studied on a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans). Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
