Adjunct Professor Lawrence Brennan was quoted in a Navy Times article about the recent ruling by the military’s highest court that the Navy’s top lawyer, Vice Admiral James W. Crawford III, illegally meddled in the case of a Navy SEAL accused of rape. “It’s justice,” said retired Capt. Lawrence Brennan, a career Navy attorney and now an instructor at Fordham University’s School of Law. “It’s the right answer to a longstanding problem. It’s a well-written and well-reasoned opinion, probably the most significant UCI decision since the Tailhook scandal.” Read full article.
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Visiting Professor Corey Brettschneider wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post about whether a sitting U.S. president is immune from criminal prosecution. As President Trump faces deepening legal problems, the country must confront a vital question: Does the Constitution grant a sitting president immunity from criminal prosecution? According to the conventional wisdom, the Justice Department has decided the issue in the president’s favor. Yet there’s good reason to dispute that conclusion. Supreme Court case law suggests that the president should be denied this special privilege. … The oath of office requires the president to “protect and defend” the Constitution and…
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold appeared on National Public Radio about NAFTA renegotiation under the Trump administration. What Trump is working on right now is NAFTA with a large number of very small revisions, not the major revisions that he wanted initially. Listen to the full interview.
Professor Tanya Hernandez’s book Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination was reviewed in the New York Journal of Books. In Multiracials and Civil Rights, Fordham law professor Tanya Hernandez demonstrates that discrimination perpetrated against blacks also targets mixed-race persons, called multiracials. Contrary to popular expectations, multiracialism has not alleviated racism. Deviations from the hundred-percent whiteness (a racial myth) continue to inform social constructions of race, racial awareness, discrimination, and the application of civil rights laws. … The book examines a slew of civil rights cases, won and lost on grounds of racial discrimination. Most cases involve some degree…
Alumna Meghan Spillane ’08, partner at Goodwin Procter LLP, was one of five white-collar attorneys under age 40 named a Rising Star by Law360. Goodwin Procter LLP partner Meghan Spillane’s key involvement in several high-profile government probes, including an investigation into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s economic development efforts, earns her a spot as one of five white collar attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars. … Through years of experience interacting with regulatory agencies, and forming relationships with members of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Spillane said that she’s been able to develop a reputation for both…
Professor Bruce Green appeared on CBS News where he discussed federal prosecution as it relates to the Trump-Russia investigation. As with almost everything in this case, a lot is speculative because Mueller’s office is so discreet. They are not having press conferences explaining what they are doing and why. You can make a lot of educated guesses here… Watch full video.
Professor Bruce Green co-authored an op-ed for USA Today about the possibility of President Trump pardoning Paul Manafort. Now that a jury has convicted Paul Manafort of eight counts of federal crimes, everyone is wondering if President Donald Trump will pardon him, as he pardoned Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, another political ally. While pardoning Manafort seems like a misuse of presidential power and may be a bad political move as well, in certain respects, it’s not such a bad idea. The Constitution gives the president the “power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in…
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold was quoted in a WCBS News Radio article about NAFTA renegotiation under the Trump administration. [M]att Gold was lead NAFTA negotiator in Obama administration. He said Mexico has the most skin in the game, so Canada stepped out for the first round of negotiations. “Canada stepped out and just let the United States and Mexico sort of duke that out, and they’ll probably be on board with whatever the U.S. and Mexico agreed on,” Gold told WCBS 880’s Steve Scott and Michael Wallace. Regardless of the name, the deal amounts to several tweaks to…
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold appeared on CNBC where he discussed NAFTA renegotiation under the Trump administration. What’s going to happen here is Canada is going to come back into the talks and they are going to continue to work through the issues. Watch full video.
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold appeared on MSNBC where he discussed NAFTA renegotiation under the Trump administration. Trump had six big asks, he is not going to get five of them…. Presenting it as if the United States is pulling out of NAFTA and going along with Mexico has two purposes. One, he is trying to scare Canadians so they pressure Prime Minister Trudeau to give Trump two specific concessions…and the other is to remind his base that when he promised that he would really shake things up, he is still prepared to do that as we get closer to the…