Bruce Green was quoted in a Forbes article about the New York City Bar Association’s recent decision regarding the ethics of third-party litigation funding. The New York City Bar Association released its formal opinion on July 30, interpreting an existing rule on lawyers sharing fees with non-lawyers. “The opinion concludes that some ways of funding lawyers, financing lawyers, run afoul of the fee-splitting,” Bruce Green, a professor at Fordham Law School who chairs the NYC Bar’s Committee on Professional Ethics, told Legal Newsline. “(It is) not dealing with clients.” Green added that it is “not a fair assumption” that the…
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Steve Thel was quoted in a Law360 article about an opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit regarding a California federal court’s decision to dismiss an investor suit against now-bankrupt biotechnology company Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. If the Ninth Circuit opinion causes lower courts to allow more cases to proceed beyond a motion to dismiss, it could lead to more settlements as well, said Steve Thel, a law professor at Fordham University. The likelihood of a settlement “substantially increases” if plaintiffs succeed on a motion to dismiss, he said. Read full article.
Clinical Associate Professor Cheryl Bader was quoted in a Newsweek article about Michael Cohen’s recent plea deal and what it means for President Trump. Cheryl Bader, an attorney and law professor at Fordham University, told Newsweek that the case may be that prosecutors have already determined that Cohen wouldn’t be such a “valuable witness” compared to the evidence they’ve already gathered. Bader said that the prosecutors may also feel “that he’s sort of damaged goods anyway, so engaging in a cooperation agreement wouldn’t make sense for them strategically.” She also didn’t rule out that Cohen might not have wanted to…
Deborah Denno was quoted in a BioScience article about the role of neuroscience in the criminal justice system. In a 2016 study in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Nita A. Farahany, of Duke University, examined the use of neurobiology in criminal law, including neuroimaging, behavioral genetics, neuropsychological testing, and history of brain injury. Her team found 1585 judicial opinions between 2005 and 2012 that used neurobiological evidence. “In 2012 alone, over 250 judicial opinions—more than double the number in 2007—cited defendants arguing in some form or another that their ‘brains made them do it,’” she wrote. She and…
Susan Scafidi, director of the Fashion Law Institute, was quoted in a Think Progress article about cultural appropriation. Susan Scafidi, a law professor at Fordham University and author of the 2005 book “Who Owns Culture?: Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law,” told ThinkProgress that while the Elba-as-Bond debate wasn’t a hot topic when she wrote her book, it’s become a relevant example of the cultural discussions it engenders in the past three to four years. “That’s because of social media,” Scafidi said in a phone interview. “The conversations we’ve had about stealing culture from minorities that we’ve had in private…
Joshua L. Dratel, fellow at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, was quoted in a Huffington Post article about the recent sexual abuse allegations against actor/director Asia Argento. Argento was one of the first women to accuse Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault and has been an outspoken advocate for victim’s rights. Argento is not a U.S. citizen, but LASD has jurisdiction to investigate as long as the alleged crime occurred in Los Angeles, according to attorney Joshua L. Dratel, who has experience with extradition cases. The incident allegedly occurred in Marina del Rey, which is policed…
Deborah Denno was quoted in a Omaha World Herald article about lethal injection as a form of capital punishment. The media witnesses in Nebraska reported that Moore’s eyes shut and remained closed shortly after he received the first sedative drug in the lethal sequence. They also reported that Moore underwent a period of labored breathing and he coughed several times. In addition, they said his face and hands started turning purple about seven minutes after the first drug was given. The witnesses did not report seeing writhing, facial grimaces or other signs of obvious pain that have surfaced in reports…
Center on National Security Distinguished Fellow John Brennan, former CIA director, wrote an op-ed for New York Times about President Trump’s claims of no collusion with Russia. When Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s internal security service, told me during an early August 2016 phone call that Russia wasn’t interfering in our presidential election, I knew he was lying. Over the previous several years I had grown weary of Mr. Bortnikov’s denials of Russia’s perfidy — about its mistreatment of American diplomats and citizens in Moscow, its repeated failure to adhere to cease-fire agreements in Syria and its paramilitary intervention…
Fordham Law has been recognized as one of the top law schools based on scholarly impact. Professors James Brudney, Nestor Davidson, Deborah Denno, Howard Erichson, Bruce Green, Sean Griffith, Clare Huntington, Ethan Leib, Joel Reidenberg, and Benjamin Zipursky have been named among the most cited scholars in 2018 Read full announcement. Read the complete ranking and narrative.
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for CNN about French activists and Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld. For six decades, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld devoted their lives to hunting former Nazis — from death camp guards to leaders of the Gestapo — and bringing them to justice. It was the Klarsfelds who identified the Butcher of Lyons, Klaus Barbie, who was living in exile in Bolivia under an assumed name. Thanks largely to their efforts, Barbie was extradited to France and spent his last years in a French…