Adjunct Professor Lawrence Brennan was quoted in a Navy Times article about the collision and subsequent sinking of the frigate Helge Ingstad in early November. To retired Capt. Lawrence Brennan, a career U.S. Navy attorney and now an instructor at Fordham University’s School of Law, what’s interesting isn’t just what’s in the interim report but what was left out and will be explored later by other probes. He pointed to the crew of the frigate Helge Ingstad and wondered what condition they had set the frigate to mitigate or prevent flooding. He asked about the shift change on the bridge…
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Linda Sugin’s paper about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, published in the Yale Law Journal, was featured in a Forbes article. Linda Sugin, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, at Fordham University School of Law thinks about the Tax Cuts And Jobs Act in a much different way then practitioners like myself think about the act. While we are contemplating how to keep clients in compliance and take advantage of the goodies, she contemplates what values are expressed in the act in The Social Meaning of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, recently published in the Yale Law Journal. The…
Fordham Law alumnus Craig Deitelzweig ’94 was interviewed by Commercial Observer about his success in the world of real estate. When Craig Deitelzweig was a teenager, he worked the midnight shift as a doorman in a New York City residential rental building during holidays and breaks from school. Developer David Walentas, the founder of Brooklyn-based Two Trees, lived in that building and frequent encounters made a distinct impression. “I really became impressed by him and how he could change New York,” Deitelzweig, the CEO of New York-based Marx Realty, told Commercial Observer in a recent interview. “I wanted to be…
Jed Shugerman was quoted in a Washington Post article about the possibility of President Trump pardoning former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. “If a president sold pardons for money, the president would be guilty of bribery. If a president sold nominations for money, he would be guilty of bribery,” wrote Fordham law professor Jed Shugerman in March. “So, too, if the president offered pardons in order to corruptly obstruct justice, that would be a felony.” He continued: “Those who say the president is immune for his official acts are essentially saying the president is uniquely above the law, that he…
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for Reuters about possible strategies that President Donald Trump may consider in the upcoming G20 summit. Last year’s G20 is remembered for the moment when Donald Trump flew off in a huff, leaving differences on issues like climate change unresolved. This year, few Western leaders are likely to have any grand illusions when they arrive in Buenos Aires for this weekend’s 2018 summit. For many, it seems, the U.S. president is operating under one overriding world view. American foreign policy is for sale.…
Martin Flaherty was quoted in an ABC News article about Project Dragonfly, a censored search engine that Google plans to develop for China. “Project Dragonfly” has been criticized by human rights groups and U.S. politicians since news of its development leaked this summer. In August, thousands of Google employees signed a similar letter. News of the Android phone-based app was first reported by The Intercept. “The question is: What price is worth cracking that market? Is the price going to be accepting just the incredibly egregious censorship the PRC [People’s Republic of China] puts on information?” Martin S. Flaherty,…
Gay McDougall, distinguished scholar-in-residence at the Center on Race, Law & Justice at Fordham Law, will receive an honorary doctorate degree from the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. Gay J McDougall, a leading international human rights activist, scholar and lawyer is to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of London in this year’s School of Advanced Study’s graduation ceremony. … She played a special role in securing the release of thousands of political prisoners in South Africa and Namibia and was appointed to the electoral commission that ran the first democratic elections in South Africa that ended…
4L evening student Akilah Browne 4L received a Skadden Fellowship. Akilah Browne Fordham University School of Law New Economy Project New York, NY Provide transactional legal services to grassroots organizations seeking to develop non-profit community land trusts to foster the creation and preservation of permanently affordable housing for poor New Yorkers. Read full report.
Fordham Law alumna Min Wang ’03 has been appointed chief legal and administrative officer at BlueRock Therapeutics, LP, an engineered cell therapy company. In her new role, Dr. Wang will join the company’s Executive team, and hold broad management responsibility for all legal aspects of the business, including intellectual property, contracts, financial and corporate governance and risk management, as well as management of administrative functions at the company. … Dr. Wang brings more than 20 years of senior leadership and legal experience in the biotechnology industry. She was most recently Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Agios…
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an opinion piece for CNN about the future of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency in France. From our apartment window across the Seine, we could see the smoke rising from the Champs-Élysées, where flames of the burning barricades mingled with the fumes of the tear gas grenades. The demonstrators, wearing the trademark yellow vests that gave their movement its name — the “gilets jaunes” — were prying paving stones from the avenue to hurl at the riot police, clad in black from head to toe, with gas…