Fordham Law alumni Andrew Zatz ’07 and Michael Hamburger ’09 have been elected partner at White & Case. Andrew Zatz has been named a partner in our Global Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice in New York. Andrew’s experience includes advising clients on bankruptcy law, including representing debtors, creditors and other interested parties in both chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings. … Michael Hamburger has been named a partner in our Global Antitrust Practice in New York. Michael represents clients in both civil and criminal antitrust matters and has defended numerous companies in multijurisdictional cartel litigation. He advises companies on obtaining antitrust clearance from domestic and…
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David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for CNN about how President Trump’s positioning regarding the recent disappearance of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi may impact U.S. foreign relations. Donald Trump may be positioning himself, and by extension the American people, yet again, on the wrong side of another profound moral divide — defending an utterly criminal regime in the Middle East to which he plighted his troth from the earliest days of his presidency — the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. When an urgent issue presented itself in 2017, Trump…
Tanya Hernández participated in a panel discussion on new perspectives on racial identities and issues. Last Thursday we hosted a discussion between four brilliant scholars publishing work that challenges accepted narratives of history and sheds light on topics like mixed-race identity, and Afro-Latinx identity in relation to law and cultural politics. In discussing her book Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination Tanya K. Hernandez, a civil rights lawyer for over 25 years, explained that “writing this book was a way to sort through my own confusion in how commentators talk about multiracial identified people and the discrimination they…
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold talks NAFTA on NBC’s Nightly News with Lester Holt. It will not bring back manufacturing jobs from Mexico, and it will not affect our trade balance with Mexico but it is a large number of small updates. Watch full video.
Professor Andrew Kent wrote a blog post for Lawfare about whether President Trump is following the constitutional oath he took to assume the presidency. Writing here at Lawfare in the early days of the Trump administration, Benjamin Wittes and Quinta Jurecic zeroed in on a central dilemma of this presidency: What happens when the occupant of the office is unable to sincerely and credibly swear the constitutional oath, required by Article II, to “faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States”? As Wittes and Jurecic rightly noted, even in January 2017 it was “extraordinarily common among sober…
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, the largest charitable funder of childhood cancer research grants, has announced the Rosa and Francesco Romanello St. Baldrick’s Research Grant, named after the parents of Fordham Law alumnus (and former St. Baldrick’s pro bono general counsel) Salvatore Romanello ’97. The $100,000 grant will support Dr. Lawlor’s research focused on Ewing sarcoma, an aggressive bone tumor which currently presents very few options for cures if it has metastasized in the body. … “Sal has been an integral part of our team and so we wanted to create something special to properly convey our appreciation to him and…
Youngjae Lee was quoted in a Washington Post article about Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as Supreme Court justice. It’s common for jurors to believe that a defendant committed the crime charged, yet still vote “not guilty” because they aren’t certain it’s been proven to the satisfaction of the legal system, according to Youngjae Lee, criminal law professor at Fordham University School of Law. A 12-person jury could unanimously agree that there is a 75 percent possibility that the defendant is guilty of the crime charged — and that jury could still decide unanimously to acquit because the panelists think…
On September 25, 2018, Adjunct Professor Matt Gold participated in the Gabelli School Speaker Series where he spoke with students about international trade policy and the future of international business. We have this assault on trade agreements coming from the White House, which is not producing any concessions from any other countries of any significance, whatsoever. …. You can’t really quantify it… but… probably about 90% of all the international law that exists in the world is the international law of international trade. So, when you undermine the international law of international trade… you’re undermining a huge part of the…
Adjunct Professor Joel Cohen wrote an op-ed in the New York Law Journal where he weighs in on whether an attorney’s predisposition is unethical. Years ago, I attended a court-ordered proceeding with an extremely avuncular state trial justice, since deceased, before whom I was prosecuting a corrupt judge. (One could say) I whined about the invective my adversary, a distinguished lawyer who primarily litigated in the civil arena, used to describe the prosecutorial conduct engaged in by myself and my colleagues that led to the indictment. The bemused judge asked whether I had ever seen (the now late) Roy Cohn’s…
Fordham Law’s Feerick Center on Social Justice was mentioned in a New York Law Journal article about the Attorney Emeritus Program. If you are a practicing New York attorney, you know what it is like to scramble at the end of the two-year biennial registration period: One needs 24 hours of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits to complete one’s registration. Many of those attorneys looking for CLE courses at the eleventh hour are unaware that the New York State CLE Board provides that you may partially fulfill your CLE requirements by doing pro bono work though an approved provider (although…