David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for CNN about the recent global surge of right-wing victories. Somehow, it all seems to be coming together at once. Over the weekend, a Trumpian-style, right-wing politician surged into a runoff election for presidency of Brazil, only narrowly missing the 50% vote in the first round that would have meant instant victory. In Germany, the neo-fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is poised to claim its first seats in Sunday’s regional elections for the Bavarian parliament, which would mean representation for the…
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Jed Shugerman was quoted in a Boston Herald article about the possible impact of the Supreme Court confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh takes the bench this morning, joining the court in time to consider a number of consequential cases this term — including one that could strengthen President Trump’s pardon power. But Robert Mueller has already acted to nullify the impact of such a ruling on the ongoing probe of potential Russian coordination with Trump’s campaign. “Mueller has already confronted this issue and strategized around it,”…
Just four years after graduating Fordham Law School, Eunice Carter ’32 masterminded the sting operation that resulted in the imprisonment of mobster Charles “Lucky” Luciano. Carter, the first African-American woman to serve as a New York assistant district attorney, was the only woman and person of color on future New York Governor Thomas Dewey’s team that brought down the mob boss. Carter’s grandson, Yale Law professor and best-selling author Stephen L. Carter, recounts his grandmother’s time at Fordham, her meteoric rise as a prosecutor, and her work on the Luciano case in his new book, Invisible: The Forgotten Story…
One week after a Facebook security breach exposed the accounts of 50 million users, a collection of leading thinkers on the social media giant’s outsized impact on democracy and information privacy joined a Facebook executive for a revealing and timely conversation at Fordham Law School. The Oct. 4 event centered around University of Virginia Media Studies Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan’s new book, Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy. Facebook Global Civic Partnerships Manager Crystal Patterson, investigative journalist Julia Angwin, and Fordham Law Visiting Professor Danielle Citron ’94 also participated in a panel discussion moderated by Fordham Law Professor…
Susan Scafidi, director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law, was quoted in Crains New York about how the garment industry is being affected by the current trade war between the United States and China. “We would have to rebuild a vast infrastructure and find people who actually want to sit at sewing machines, which would require a dramatic increase in immigration,” said Susan Scafidi, director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School. “People who are born in the U.S. typically don’t aspire to work in garment factories.” She added that it was possible other countries, including…
Deborah Denno was quoted in a Deseret News article about the state of Nebraska’s recent use of the powerful opioid fentanyl to execute a convicted murderer. Part of the problem of establishing a protocol is that executions in most states are so sporadic that with each one, a new team of people is involved, said Deborah Denno, the Arthur A. McGivney professor of law at Fordham University in New York who has been studying lethal injection since 1990. (The last person executed in Utah was in 2010.) Also, unlike prescribed deaths of terminally ill people to right-to-die states, physicians…
Jed Shugerman was quoted in a Washington Post article about Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing. “It’s as likely as the Democrats winning the House,” said Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham University School of Law. “If they take back the House, I would be surprised if they don’t put forth impeachment proceedings in the next Congress,” Shugerman told The Washington Post. “At the moment,” according to the Cook Political Report, “Democrats are substantial favorites for House control.” Even then, though, Shugerman called Kavanaugh’s removal “exceedingly unlikely,” given the supermajority threshold in the Senate. Read full article.
Professors Ethan Leib and Martin Flaherty were quoted in a New York Law Journal article about Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing. “If Kavanaugh is confirmed after his petulant and entitled partisan rant in front of the Senate and the people, I don’t think I will be able to teach his opinions to the next generation of students—at least without always mentioning the illegitimacy of the institution he took down with him. It isn’t like we don’t all know there are partisan lines on the Supreme Court. But we try to help our students not to be lazy and to help them…
Professor Youngjae Lee wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times about Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing. The FBI investigation — satisfactory or not — into sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh is now complete and the Senate will soon start voting on the nomination. A senator who wants to do the right thing may experience this upcoming confirmation vote as a tragic choice in either direction. Setting aside issues of temperament or possible lies to the Judiciary Committee, the conflict at its core is between two impulses. A vote to confirm Kavanaugh seems equivalent to disbelieving Christine Blasey Ford —…
Clinical Professor Elizabeth Maresca was quoted in a Time article regarding the New York Times report about the Trump family’s business dealings. The findings in the Times report contradict the mythology Trump created about himself: that he’s a self-made billionaire who became a real estate mogul through a $1 million loan from his father. According to the Times, Trump received $413 million from his father across the decades. The report found that in all, the Trump parents transferred more than $1 billion of wealth to their children. Under the 55% tax rate of the time, that amount could have produced…