Fordham Law School is proud to announce four new professors who will join the faculty during the 2024-25 academic year. These accomplished scholars and educators will advance the Law School’s commitment to excellence in legal education in fields ranging from intellectual property to social justice, legal theory, and criminal law. The new faculty members are Doni Bloomfield, Mariam Hinds, Gowri Krishna ’06, and Ela Leshem.
“We are delighted to welcome this distinguished group of professors to our Law School,” said Fordham Law Dean Matthew Diller. “We eagerly anticipate their contributions as scholars, educators, and integral members of the Fordham Law community.”
Joining Fordham Law as an associate professor, Doni Bloomfield teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property, antitrust, and health law. His research examines the role the law plays in encouraging technological progress while reducing risk, both to health and economic well-being. His recent scholarship has studied the relationship between market competition and supply resilience, the application of export controls to biosecurity risks, and the intersection of FDA and patent law. Prior to joining Fordham, Bloomfield was a senior research associate at Johns Hopkins University, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, and a biotechnology reporter at Bloomberg News. Bloomfield clerked for Judge Timothy B. Dyk of the Federal Circuit and Judge Patricia A. Millett of the D.C. Circuit. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Mariam Hinds is an expert on criminal law, criminal procedure, and race. She will be joining the Law School as clinical associate professor of law in the Criminal Defense Clinic. Prior to joining Fordham, Hinds was a practitioner-in-residence and served as the acting co-director of the Criminal Justice Clinic at American University Washington College of Law, overseeing student attorneys who represented clients charged with misdemeanor offenses or petitioning for expungement in Montgomery County District Court. She also taught a seminar on Criminal Defense Theory and Practice that introduced students to the ethical, legal, and practical dimensions of criminal defense practice. Hinds clerked for Judge Cheryl L. Pollak of the Eastern District of New York. She received her J.D. from Stanford Law School and her B.A. in Psychology from Yale University.
Also joining Fordham Law this fall as clinical professor of law is Gowri Krishna ’06, an experienced clinical educator with a strong focus on economic, racial, and social justice. Krishna has maintained a steady focus on confronting the country’s widening wealth gap and addressing threats to immigrants’ rights, workers’ rights, and public services, and she is an expert on immigrant-owned worker cooperatives. Before joining Fordham Law, she was professor of law at New York Law School, where she was the founding director and supervising attorney of the Nonprofit and Small Business Clinic, which counsels New York City nonprofit and community-based organizations on matters such as corporate formation, governance, tax and real estate issues, and contracts. She earned her J.D. from Fordham Law School and an A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis.
Ela Leshem, a legal theorist who teaches and writes about the property and personhood status of human bodies, nation states, animals, fetuses, venerated objects, and artificial intelligence, will join Fordham Law as an associate professor of law. Previously, she was a fellow at the Senate Judiciary Committee and clerked for Chief Judge David Barron of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Leshem earned her B.A. and J.D. from Yale, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. She studied music at the University of the Arts in Bern, Switzerland, and at the State University of Music in Stuttgart, Germany. Leshem also completed a doctorate in philosophy and a masters in political theory at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.
