Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno appeared on Scripps News to discuss concerns over the State of Alabama’s intent on using nitrogen hypoxia in a scheduled execution later this month. Watch the segment, “Concerns Raised On Nitrogen Hypoxia Being Used in Alabama Man’s Execution on Jan. 25” on Scripps News.
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Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout published an op-ed in The Hill arguing that the European Union should step up to regulate harmful technology products. Ireland has now come out with a powerful proposal to address the problems of algorithmic amplification. Ireland set up Coimisiún na Meán, a new enforcer, this year to set rules for digital platforms. It has proposed a simple, easily enforceable rule that could change the game: All recommender systems based on intimately profiling people should be turned off by default. Read “The EU should support Ireland’s bold move to regulate Big Tech” in The Hill.
Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys are appealing a ruling that found he is not immune from criminal prosecution in connection with an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader, a former federal prosecutor, speaks with 23ABC to explain how that may be a losing battle. Cheryl Bader, a former federal prosecutor, said she believes the immunity argument will be a losing battle for Trump, even before the conservative-majority Supreme Court. “I think based on the law and there being no constitutional provision giving former presidents immunity and based on the policy that we don’t want…
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Moore v. Harper, a case that could hamper Congress from imposing specific types of wealth taxes in the future. Fordham Law Professor and tax law expert John Brooks spoke to CNN about the case. “They would like a language of an opinion to make it very hard, if not impossible, for either a Warren-Sanders-type wealth tax or a Wyden-style-unrealized-gain-as-income tax,” said John Brooks, a professor of law at Fordham University, who filed an amicus brief supporting the US government. Prof. Brooks is also quoted in The Wall Street Journal about the case. John…
Fordham Law Prof. Cheryl Bader is quoted in a Financial Times article describing how Sam Bankman-Fried’s “likeability” may have impacted the trial. “I don’t think the results would have been any different, had he stayed off the witness stand,” says Cheryl Bader, a former federal prosecutor who is now associate professor of law at Fordham University “The prosecution had already presented extremely damning evidence. They had testimony, texts, emails supporting that testimony of long, reflective conversations between Bankman-Fried and his closest associates.” For all the legal accoutrements that adorn US criminal cases, a defendant’s testimony is often a high-stakes popularity…
Fordham Law Professor John Brooks, a tax law and policy expert, spoke on the NPR podcast “The Indicator from Planet Money” to discuss an upcoming SCOTUS case that could affect taxpayers, the federal budget, and even wealth inequality in the U.S. This is perhaps the biggest constitutional tax case that we’ve seen, arguably, in about 100 years and could have really big implications for how the income tax actually works. Listen “Could SCOTUS outlaw wealth taxes?” On NPR’s The Indicator from Planet Money.
Julie Anna Alvarez, LL.M. Career Advisor at Fordham Law School, shares advice on what to consider when choosing a career path after completing an LL.M. degree. Read “How do select the post-LL.M. career path that best aligns with your interests, skills and career goals?” in LLM Guide.
The New York Times explores why it’s difficult to regulate social media for children, but New York state lawmakers have authored new legislation, with the help of Fordham Law Prof. Zephyr Teachout, who draws on the way gambling is regulated. Zephyr Teachout, the legal scholar who helped draft the legislation, saw precedent in the way that gambling is regulated. The algorithmic targeting is similar to the kind deployed by slot machines, which over and over supply the tantalizing lineup of oranges and cherries that just keep you pulling the lever, with the elusive jackpot in mind. Any form of online…
Hon. Judge Denny Chin, co-director of the Center on Asian Americans and the Law at Fordham Law School, reviewed a new book exploring the legal battles of the Japanese-American attorneys working within concentration camps during World War II for the New York Law Journal. Read “The Attorneys Who Provided Legal Services for Japanese American ‘Evacuees’ During World War II” in New York Law Journal.
A recent ruling from the Alabama Supreme Court brings the state one step closer to implementing the untried execution method of nitrogen hypoxia. Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno argues that this development raises significant legal and ethical concerns surrounding the state’s approach to capital punishment. “A new form execution which has never been used before, there are going to be a lot of problems with that because it really is experimentation,” said Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham Law School who has researched and written about executions. “It’s literal experimentation. Nobody ever, as far as we know, has killed somebody…