Karen Greenberg was quoted in a Voice of America article about the current rates of death caused by terrorism. The report said terrorist attacks by the Islamic State (IS) terror group fell by 23 percent, and deaths caused by the group fell by 53 percent compared with 2016. With help from the U.S.-led coalition, local Iraqi and Syrian forces have pushed IS out of most areas it once held, including its two major strongholds of Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria. “The reduction of the [IS] caliphate has a great deal to do with this,” said Karen Greenberg, director…
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Professor Rebecca Kysar was quoted in a Washington Post article about the new U.S. tax law. The announcement by General Motors that it will end production at its auto assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, has angered many politicians, including Brown. In an interview on CNN, he recounted a conversation with President Trump in which the senator informed him that there was a “50 percent coupon” embedded in the tax bill signed by the president in 2017. “He wasn’t really aware of that,” Brown said. Under Brown’s reasoning, GM will have to pay only a 10.5 percent corporate tax in…
A review of Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, a book about the life of alumna Eunice Carter ’32, was published in the Washington Post. Stephen L. Carter is an oddity among America’s black intellectuals. Though he is a best-selling novelist and widely admired constitutional scholar at Yale, his success, when compared with his not-so-distant relatives, may actually represent a type of generational decline. His ancestors were rock stars. His great-great-grandfather, upon earning his freedom, ventured into antebellum Mississippi (where free black men were routinely arrested and resold into slavery),…
Bruce Green was quoted in a Nola.com article regarding New Orleans assistant district attorney Chris Bowman publicly sharing his opinions regarding City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell who is accused of misusing her city-issued credit card. Bruce Green, a Fordham University School of Law professor and the author of two books on attorneys’ professional responsibility, concurred. “While he’s not speaking in his official capacity, he’s identified as a prosecutor,” he said of Bowman, “and he’s making statements which are extrajudicial and that have a substantial likelihood of heightening public condemnation against another person. And when people read it … they may perceive…
Deborah Denno was quoted in a Vox article about Tennessee death row inmates requesting electrocution over lethal injection as the form of their execution. David Earl Miller will face the death penalty in Tennessee today, and like a growing number of inmates, he’s asking for electrocution over lethal injection. … “It’s a little bit surprising to me that they’d prefer electrocution,” said Deborah Denno, a death penalty expert and professor at Fordham University. “I really see that as a huge statement against lethal injection because electrocution has had its own problems.” Lethal injection was first enacted in the United…
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for CNN about how the arrest of a top Huawei executive may impact the relationship between the United States and China. Imagine for a moment that Ivanka Trump steps off a plane at Chek Lap Kok Airport and is set upon by Hong Kong security agents, imprisoned, then held for six days before her bail hearing because neighboring China wants to extradite her for interrogation about trade with, say, for example, Taiwan. And this happens on the very day Chinese President Xi Jinping…
3L student Kara Krakower’s article on copyright protections for dance choreography (originally published in the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal) was cited in a Washington Post article regarding a pending lawsuit over dance moves in the popular online video game Fortnite. In the summer of 2015, rapper 2 Milly went “Milly Rocking” on every block in Brooklyn, turning the hip-hop two-step into the viral dance of the summer. People started doing the “Milly Rock” on fire escapes, on top of cars, in the end zone after scoring touchdowns. Rihanna was doing it. Travis Scott did it. “If…
Alumnus Daniel O’ Toole ’92 has been recognized by Best Lawyers® for his continued excellence in Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiff. Daniel O’Toole is well-known for his record-breaking results, including a $32,756,055 verdict for a Vietnam veteran and a $22,500,000 settlement which represents the largest personal injury settlement paid by a government entity in New York history. In 2018, Mr. O’Toole received the James F. Gill Spirit of Hope Award from Fordham Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice for his extensive philanthropic work. Read full report.
Professor Tanya Hernández appeared on NJTV’s a Matter of Faith program where she discussed free speech and its limits. In the United States, we limit the idea of free speech. We limit it so that what gets to be regulated as forbidden is a very small sliver. Watch full video.
4L evening student Akilah Browne, who recently received a Skadden Fellowship, was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article regarding how she plans to use her fellowship to work with low-income communities. The fellowship allows some winners to help right injustices they have seen firsthand. Akilah Browne, a fourth-year evening student at Fordham University School of Law, is going to spend her fellowship working with low-income communities. The 28-year-old saw how her father, who always paid his $850 monthly rent on time for a Brooklyn apartment, still wound up being evicted. “We lived there for more than 20 years, but…