Adjunct Professor and Voting Rights and Democracy Project Director Jerry Goldfeder spoke to Law360 about election law, voting rights, and threats to democracy.
Fordham University School of Law announced that adjunct professor and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP special counsel Jerry Goldfeder, who has been practicing election law for 40 years and teaching for 20 years, will be director of its new voting rights project.
The initiative, called the Voting Rights and Democracy Project, aims to prepare Fordham Law students to be future voting rights lawyers through educational content and work experience at government and nonprofit organizations, according to the school.
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Is there a shortage of voting rights lawyers?
Our democratic institutions are being challenged constantly in a variety of ways on the federal level and on the state level. And there is a real need for lawyers to step up to the plate to involve themselves in protecting our democracy.