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Fordham Law visiting professor and researcher Levan Bodzashvili was appointed acting head of Georgia’s security council by the country’s president, Giorgi Margvelashvili, according to an article in Agenda.ge. Bodzashvili, 42, will temporarily fulfill the post until Margvelashvili names a new secretary of the State Security Council; the President’s advisory agency on national security issues. … It is not likely Bodzashvili will continue as a chairperson of the State Security Council, as he has already been named as the President’s candidate for the vacant position of judge in the Supreme Court of Georgia. Read full article.

Fordham Law Center on National Security Director Karen Greenberg wrote an op-ed for TomDispatch about the national security state in a post-9/11 world. One vivid image of the historical relationship between government power and individual liberties in America has long been the swing of the pendulum. It catches the nature of the perpetually changing balance between the two. When it comes to terrorism and civil liberties after 9/11, that pendulum swung strongly toward the power side of the equation and it has been slow indeed to swing back.  Still, in several areas in recent years — torture, detention, and surveillance — there…

Compliance Week mentioned the appointment of Alice Brightsky as the Fordham Law School’s senior director of compliance programs. BrightSky will be managing Fordham Law’s corporate compliance initiatives, including two master’s degree programs—Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.) and Master of Laws (LL.M.)—and the Corporate Compliance Institute. Read more about Alice Brightsky.

Digital Journal has mentioned that Fordham Law alumnus Richard DeNapoli, a practicing attorney in South Florida, is seeking to represent the Broward Soil and Water Conservation District. Mr. DeNapoli is very interested in serving the State of Florida and Broward County and its constituents. He won the seat of State Committeeman of Broward County on August 30. He received over 50% of the votes over his two opponents.  Mr. DeNapoli is a former Chairman of Broward County Republican Executives. In 2007, Richard DeNapoli was appointed as a Commissioner to the Florida Real Estate Commission (“FREC”), and subsequently reappointed when that term was…

New York Law Journal has mentioned Fordham Law alumna Linda Cantoni ’84, who will serve as counsel to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. A 1984 graduate of the Fordham University School of Law, Cantoni began her legal career as a litigation associate at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, then went on to work as an associate with the late Robert Kasanof, where she specialized in white-collar criminal defense. Read the full article.

Fordham Law alumnus Daniel Winterfeldt was quoted in Above the Law where he discusses how he founded the InterLaw Diversity Forum in order to address inclusion and diversity among legal professionals. I chose the Fordham University School of Law due to its prestigious European Law Program led by Professor Roger Goebel, and I was able to complete all the European law LLM courses during my JD. I was also able to intern at Schering-Plough for my second summer and worked two days a week during my third year of law school in their international corporate department. Read the full article.…

Professor Sheila Foster’s law review article “The City as a Commons” (co-authored with Italian legal scholar Christian Iaione) was cited in a blog post of the P2P Foundation. Foster and Iaione are frankly interested in “the potential for the commons [as] a framework and set of tools to open up the possibility of more inclusive and equitable forms of ‘city-making’. … “The value of a resource that is collectively produced results from human activity and is contingent on the ability of people to access and use the resource,” they write, noting the principle of “the more, the merrier.” …

Sen. David Vitter (R.-La.) referred to a case study  “ISIS Prosecutions in the United States”, prepared by Fordham University Law School’s Center on National Security , during questioning of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Leon Rodriguez , mentioned an article in CNS News. “They looked at all ISIS prosecutions in the United States and determined that of those involved in that, 18 percent were refugees or asylees. Shouldn’t that be of enormous concern to all of us?” Vitter asked Rodriguez. “Without a doubt. Yes,” Rodriguez responded. Read the full article.

The New York Journal has mentioned the appointment of faculty and staff at Fordham Law School: Janet Freilich as an associate professor of law and Alice BrightSky as senior director of compliance programs. Fordham Law School appointed Janet Freilich as an associate professor of law. Most recently, she served as Harvard Law School’s inaugural postdoctoral fellow in private law and intellectual property with the Program on the Foundations of Private Law. Fordham Law also named Alice BrightSky as senior director of compliance programs, managing its corporate compliance initiatives, including the Corporate Compliance Institute and two master’s degree programs, a Master…

Fordham Law alumna Lenore Horton ’10 (LL.M. in international law and justice) has been recognized as one of the Top 10 Black Female Attorneys by Black Enterprise. With over a decade of career experience, Horton has worked at top-tier firms on securities and hedge fund matters, earned a second law degree—an LL.M. in International Law & Justice—and served as a visiting professor internationally on business and human rights issues. While it’s common for “big law” attorneys to work on matters involving $100+ million, it’s rare for that to continue after an attorney leaves big law to establish their own firm—but…