Adjunct Professor Matt Gold talks NAFTA on Pacifica Radio. The new NAFTA has a series of updates, mostly things that were in the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement … Listen to the full podcast.
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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 Trump’s NAFTA renegotiation. The NAFTA 2.0 agreement, or USMCA as Donald Trump wants to call it — and he would appear to have won the right to call it anything he wants — ought to be sending chills up the spines of diplomats and trade negotiators around the world. Trump largely got his way. And now, no one can tell him his bull-in-a China-shop way won’t work. Should Sunday night’s sudden 11th-hour approval of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement give hope…
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold was interviewed by BBC Radio about the current trade war between China and the United States. I think the Chinese understand that no American president on either side of the aisle, no Democrat or Republican president, would ever do what Trump is doing, or would continue it after Trump leaves office. So from their point-of-view the best way to manage this is to figure out how to sustain the current position for the long term and hope President Trump doesn’t get reelected. Listen to the full interview.
John Pfaff wrote an op-ed for The Nation about the impact of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation’s efforts to bail out hundreds of people from New York City’s jails. Throughout October, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights foundation will be working to bail out hundreds of people from New York City’s jails. The organization originally planned to target two facilities in the city’s sprawling Rikers Island jail complex: “Rosie’s,” or the Rose M. Singer Center, which detains women, and the troubled Robert N. Davoren Complex, which had held boys ages 16-17. As of Monday, the city had moved…
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold was quoted in an NBC article about Trump’s NAFTA renegotiation. President Trump said, “The deal includes a substantial increase in our farmer’s opportunities to export American wheat, poultry, eggs, dairy— including milk, butter, cheese, yogurt and ice cream.” But for the steel industry, 25% tariffs remain in place while talks continue. “Without tariffs,” President Trump Explained, “we wouldn’t be talking about a deal. Just for those babies out there who keep talking about tariffs. But trade experts say the agreement sounds awfully familiar. Matthew Gold is an international trade law professor at Fordham University.…
Jed Shugerman was quoted in a Law and Crime article about the Kavanaugh hearings. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday that he first heard about the Deborah Ramirez allegation when it was published in The New Yorker on Sept. 23. The thing is, one of the judge’s friends provided NBC with texts apparently showing that he knew about the claim before that, and tried to recruit people to defend him. This report has some lawyers and prominent pundits suggesting this constitutes witness tampering. “And now we are also talking about witness tampering,” wrote…
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold was interviewed by CNBC about Trump’s NAFTA renegotiation. You need to take into consideration the enormous damage Donald Trump did in how he managed this NAFTA renegotiation. Watch full interview.
Alumnus Jason Adolfo Otaño ’04 was profiled in CityLand about his work as the general counsel for the New York City Council. Otaño’s father was a City firefighter for 28 years, his mother a paraprofessional for the Department of Education, and his uncle a captain for the Department of Corrections. Otaño takes great pride in his Jesuit education having graduated from Xavier High School, in Chelsea, from Fordham University in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in Latin American/Latino studies and political science with a concentration in peace and justice studies, and Fordham University School of Law in 2004. After law…
Adjunct Professor Jerry Goldfeder wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about the role of New York City’s public advocate. The public advocate should have unfettered subpoena power to bolster the office’s investigatory mandate. This would require City Council action, and the new public advocate should sponsor legislation on his or her first day in office. The public advocate should also partner with the city comptroller, who has far-reaching auditing authority, to jointly expose fraud, waste and corruption in the city. And the public advocate should tap into the experience and expertise of the thousands of local…
Professor John Pfaff wrote an opinion piece for Alabama Media Group about mass incarceration and criminal justice reform in the state of Alabama. Over the past ten years, states across the country, including Alabama, have been working to rein in their excessive reliance on incarceration and to search for ways to respond to crime that are simultaneously less costly and more effective. While most reform efforts in Alabama and elsewhere have focused on legislative fixes, it’s worth noting that perhaps the most powerful person in criminal justice policy, and criminal justice reform, gets very little attention: the local county prosecutor.…