Professor Aditi Bagchi provided feedback on the U.S. Supreme Court ruling to allow New Jersey to unilaterally withdraw from the Waterfront Commission Compact—an agreement established decades ago to fight corruption and crime in the NY-NJ port.
Aditi Bagchi, a professor at Fordham School of Law, said she found it curious the Court relied on contract law, given that the case involved a “compact”—a complex agreement between states or sovereign nations.
