Vasiliki Sakellaridis, a 3L Fordham Law student, was awarded a scholarship by the Hellenic Lawyers Association. The Hellenic Lawyers Association (HLA) held its 30th Annual Gala on November 2 at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan. The Honorable Gregory G. Katsas, United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, was awarded the Distinguished Legal Service Award. Scholarships to deserving students were also presented at the gala. The first two scholarships were sponsored and presented by Nicholas Papain to Vasiliki Sakellaridis, 3rd year law student at Fordham University School of Law, and Nicholas…
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Alumnus David Anders ’94 reflects on his career path and Fordham Law experience in an interview with Lawdragon. Scoring a perfect trial record as an assistant U.S. attorney in the nation’s most elite prosecutorial branch, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, will invariably have its benefits – including options of where to take your rarefied set of skills in private practice. David Anders chose the ultra-elite Wachtell Lipton where, not surprisingly, he has thrived alongside what he considers the best peers you can find in the profession. Anders joined the firm in 2006 and became…
Adjunct Professor George H. Friedman wrote a blog post about the arbitration and financial services field following the midterm elections. The Democrats in 2017 introduced several anti-arbitration Bills that have predictably gone nowhere far as described in my blog post, Baseball Season is Here! You Can’t Tell the Anti-Arbitration Bills Without a Scorecard. These Bills will continue to go nowhere in this Congress, which expires in early January, just as occurred in 2016… and 2015… and 2014. The Bills will undoubtedly be reintroduced in the next Congress, and some may pass the House. They will, however, be DOA in the…
Bruce Green was quoted in a Law360 article about the ethics behind New York’s new commission to investigate misconduct by prosecutors. Legal ethics expert Bruce Green of Fordham Law School noted that the law does not limit the group to investigating allegations of legal or conduct violations, thus giving the commission power to determine what patterns of behavior or grey-area actions might fall under its purview. The commission will thus have to answer the “philosophical” question of whether to bring cases stemming from borderline conduct — a prosecutor mischaracterizing a piece of evidence to a jury during trial summations,…
Visiting Professor Corey Brettschneider wrote an op-ed for The Guardian about President Trump’s statement that he can end birthright citizenship, a key part of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, through an executive order. In an interview that will air in full on Sunday, Donald Trump reveals that he wants to end birthright citizenship through executive order. But he doesn’t have that power. An executive order cannot reverse the guarantee of citizenship to anyone born in the United States that is enshrined in the constitution. Trump’s proposal reveals that he does not understand our constitution, or the deeper values…
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for NBC News about the trade war between the United States and China. The Chinese may finally be getting inside Donald Trump’s head. Perhaps it’s the listening they’ve allegedly been doing on his most private thoughts as he reportedly unburdens himself on his unsecured cell phones to his besties, like Fox’s Sean Hannity. Leaders in China denied The New York Times scoop, but noted that if the U.S. president is worried about eavesdropping, he should use a Chinese-made Huawei. Well played, Beijing. …
Susan Scafidi was quoted in a Business Of Fashion article about how to avoid lawsuits while naming your business. Susan Scafidi, founder and director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University’s School of Law, said these disputes are common — so much so that she always urges young designers not to name their businesses after themselves. “Designers with common names in particular often have to engage in protracted legal disputes with companies who already own the same or similar names,” she said. Read full article.
Deborah Denno was quoted in an ABA Journal article about the execution by electric chair of murderer Edmund Zagorski. Deborah Denno, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law, wrote in a law review article that Leuchter was a self-taught device-maker with a history degree. In a 1991 consent decree, he acknowledged he has never been registered as a professional engineer, although he represented himself as an engineer to the states. Denno told AP that the most qualified people often are reluctant to be involved in executions, and Leuchter filled a void. Even after states stopped contracting with…
Jed Shugerman was quoted in a Roughly Explained article about President Trump’s statement that he can end birthright citizenship, a key part of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, through an executive order. “When the 14th Amendment included the phrase ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof,’ the framers and the public clearly understood that they were setting aside the children of foreign diplomats,” Jed Shugerman, a law professor at Fordham University said. “Other visitors to the United States were and continue to be plainly under the jurisdiction of US law. Why else can they be detained and convicted in US…
Deborah Denno was quoted in a Reuters article about the execution by electric chair of murderer Edmund Zagorski. In a 1984 trial, prosecutors said Zagorski lured John Dotson and Jimmy Porter into a wooded area in Robertson County under the pretense of a drug deal, but once the men were in the woods, Zagorski shot them both, slit their throats and stole their cash, court records show. Zagorski’s attorneys in a lawsuit filed in federal District Court on Friday argued that the electric chair, “while better than lethal injection … is still utterly barbaric,” saying that it violates the…