Jed Shugerman was quoted in a Business Insider article about special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation. Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham Law School, said he thought it was significant that Mueller agreed to narrow the scope of his initial questions for Trump to focus on collusion rather than obstruction. “It suggests Mueller thinks that’s more significant and worthwhile at this stage,” he said. Shugerman added that Mueller’s questions about collusion indicated that “he probably has sufficient evidence for obstruction.” “If forced to allocate his time to obstruction or Russia, he is choosing Russia,” he said. “And probably…
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Center on National Security Distinguished Fellow and former CIA director John Brennan was quoted in a Yahoo article about voting security for the upcoming midterm elections. But in an interview last week, former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan, a longtime security expert, refrained from retreating into fingernail-chewing anxiety. Instead, Brennan said he’s confident in the work being done to secure voting systems—even as he harbors doubts about security leadership in President Trump’s White House, and people’s ability to focus on threats beyond those we’ve already seen. … In a conversation after his keynote at a security conference in Washington…
Jed Shugerman was quoted in a Business Insider article about special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation. Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham Law School, said he believes it is significant that Mueller agreed to narrow the scope of his initial questions for Trump to focus on collusion rather than obstruction. “It suggests Mueller thinks that’s more significant and worthwhile at this stage,” he said. Shugerman added that Mueller’s questions about collusion indicate that “he probably has sufficient evidence for obstruction. If forced to allocate his time to obstruction or Russia, he is choosing Russia. And probably [because] he has big…
Olympia Moy, a 1L Stein Scholar at Fordham Law, was featured in The Atlantic regarding how she transformed her family’s small music school business into a space for civic change. Olympia Moy, a 35-year-old with a background in nonprofit work and advocacy who helps manage her parents’ music school, shares the struggle of reconciling her legacy with that of her parents. “My parents would have rather I had come back for a cushy job and a steady income,” she says. “I came back thinking of their business as fertile ground for civic change.” … While my mom was studying piano…
Tanya Hernández was interviewed by BBC World Service radio where she weighed in on the complex connotations of the word mulatto. The word has both a historically derogatory meaning and also a very neutral descriptive meaning. Listen to the full interview.
Tanya Hernández was interviewed by Tanzina Vega on WNYC’s The Takeaway about the Proud Boys, a far-right men’s organization that has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. What is so fascinating and disturbing about the Proud Boys and some of these other youth culture pro-white organizations is that they’re actually attracting men of color and men who identify as mixed race as well. Listen to the full interview.
Susan Scafidi, director of the Fashion Law Institute, was quoted in a Brookhaven Courier article about cultural appropriation as it relates to children’s Halloween costumes. There are better ways to teach children about the respect owed to all cultures, without parents overreacting to an unofficial faux pas stemmed from political correctness. “I think that the argument has absolutely become politicized,” Susan Scafidi, a legal scholar, told USA Today. “But it doesn’t need to be. We can all learn to be polite and respectful without being political. And, in fact, I think most people want to be.” Scafidi is the…
Alumnus Michele (Miki) Navazio ’03 has joined Seward & Kissel LLP as a partner in New York. Mr. Navazio has advised many of the world’s largest hedge funds and asset managers on derivative transactions and regulatory compliance, and brings more than a decade of experience negotiating complex derivatives to the firm’s Corporate Finance Group. … “I’m excited to join the highly respected team at Seward & Kissel, which offers an ideal platform for my practice,” Mr. Navazio said. “The firm is known for its strength in investment management and asset securitization, and I am looking forward to putting my experience…
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote a post in Reuters about how the recent disappearance of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi may impact Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. The 33-year-old Mohammed bin Salman has gotten away with quite a lot since his elevation just 16 months ago to the role of heir-apparent to the throne. While praised as the reformist behind measures like allowing women to drive, he detained dozens of members of the royal family and top business leaders at the Ritz Carlton until they agreed to pay…
Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security, wrote a post for TomDispatch about the impact that the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court could have on the U.S. justice system. Amid the emotional hubbub over the predictable confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, there has been a largely overlooked casualty: the American judiciary. It’s not the end result alone — his addition to the highest bench in the land where he will sit for life — that promises to damage the country, but the unprofessional, procedurally irresponsible way his circus-like hearings were held that dealt a blow to…