Jed Shugerman was mentioned in a Law and Crime article regarding an amicus brief that has been submitted in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland challenging the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general of the United States. The amici curiae (which means friends of the court) submitted this brief in the context of Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh‘s (D) challenge of the Whitaker appointment. Frosh has argued that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should have replaced Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, not Whitaker, and has called the move “illegal and unconstitutional.” The…
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David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an opinion piece for NBC News about how Vice President Mike Pence manages diplomatic relations of the United States. If President Donald Trump is worried about Mike Pence upstaging him in 2020, he has no one to blame but himself. As Trump rankles allies and foes alike with his support of Saudi Arabia, the vice president is proving himself to be a savvier — or at least more settled — diplomat on the world stage. In a recent trip across Asia, Pence may not have…
Deborah Denno was quoted in an Urban Milwaukee article about the importance of investigating evidence of childhood trauma in criminal cases. Denno researched written court decisions reported in the online legal databases Westlaw and Lexis from 1992 to 2012. She found 800 criminal cases involving neuroscience evidence. She reviewed those and then narrowed her focus to the 266 cases involving childhood trauma. Denno acknowledged that written opinions reported in Westlaw and Lexis are predominantly from appellate courts, so her research involved mostly appellate court decisions. Further, almost all of the 266 cases she reviewed in depth were homicide cases,…
John Feerick was mentioned in The Atlantic regarding electoral college reform. John Feerick, a professor and former dean at Fordham Law School who advised the American Bar Association during the Bayh hearings and testified before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, noted that even in the early 1820s, the Framers’ intent was largely understood to be kaput. Political parties undermined the conception of the Electoral College as a deliberative body, resulting first in Adams’s win in 1824 in the House and later in increasing use of the Electoral College as an occasionally disruptive middleman between the electorate and the presidency. ……
“The 2020 election should be a referendum on the Constitution of the United States,” says Corey Brettschneider, visiting professor at Fordham Law. The question then becomes how well do the American people—and their presidential candidates—understand the Constitution? On November 14, Fordham Law hosted a book talk featuring Corey Brettschneider, who is also professor of political science at Brown University, and Professor John D. Feerick ’61. The topic of discussion was Brettschneider’s new book, The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents, which offers its readers a detailed history of how the Constitution has been interpreted…
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 Caribbean Life News. Eunice Hunton was eight years old when she told a little playmate that she wanted to be a lawyer someday. That wasn’t too far-fetched — both her parents were successful, educated activists for “the darker nation” — but it was unlikely, since just a handful of “Negroes” were lawyers in 1907, and even fewer were women. Her mother believed that raising a family was…
Susan Scafidi was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about the distinctive design of a Starbucks cup. Starbucks Corp. has spent nearly six years trying to convince the Patent and Trademark Office that a white cup with a plain green dot is a distinctive design — and therefore warrants trademark protection. The chain’s most recent design launched in 2011, when it simplified its black and green circular emblem. Its cups now feature its iconic siren carved out of a green circle without lettering. But now the coffee chain is arguing that it should have control over an even simpler…
Alumnus Richard Hastings ’83, a partner in the Ridgefield, CT law firm of Hastings, Cohan & Walsh, LLP, has received an AV rating by Martindale Hubbell, its highest rating. Mr. Hastings, who has been practicing law for almost 35 years, concentrates his practice on personal injury law. … Mr. Hastings is a Harvard trained negotiator. He has also received mediation, negotiation and alternative dispute resolution training through MIT, the University of Michigan, Quinnipiac School of Law, and the Windsor Faculty of Law in Canada. As a result of his extensive training, Attorney Hastings teaches lawyers across the country how to…
Deborah Denno was quoted in a Marquette Wire article about childhood trauma and its impacts on the criminal justice system. Mary Triggiano, circuit deputy chief judge of Milwaukee County, and Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University, discussed childhood trauma and its impacts on the criminal justice system Thursday, Nov. 15. The discussion was part of the “On the Issues” series hosted by Mike Gousha at Marquette University Law School’s Lubar Center. … “Childhood trauma consists of the traumatic event itself, which can range from any number of physical or sexual abuses as well as a how the individual…
The Women’s Project at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law wrote a memo on the current war and humanitarian crisis in Yemen. Yemen is currently suffering from the worst and most complex humanitarian crisis of today. Almost 80 percent of the population is now in dire need of humanitarian assistance. According to reporting by UNICEF, children have been the primary victims of the conflict. Thousands of civilians, including more than 5,000 children, have died or been injured as a result of the ongoing bombing campaign by the Saudi-led coalition against the Houthis. The children are suffering from famine…