Deborah Denno was quoted in a New York Times article about the state of Nebraska’s recent use of the powerful opioid fentanyl to execute a convicted murderer. “Simply because people are dying as a result of fentanyl doesn’t mean they’re dying in a way that would be considered acceptable as a form of execution,” Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University who has studied capital punishment, said in an interview before Mr. Moore’s death. Read full article.
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Adjunct Professor Matt Gold appeared on Bloomberg TV about the impact of U.S. tariffs imposed on steel and aluminum. President Trump’s move to double the tariffs that he recently imposed on Turkish steel and Turkish aluminum definitely took a hit on the Turkish side and caused a further drop in the Turkish lira. Watch full video.
Deborah Denno was quoted in a Washington Post article about the state of Nebraska’s recent use of the powerful opioid fentanyl to execute a convicted murderer. “Here we have a state that hasn’t executed in a very long time, it’s using a four-drug formula, it’s the first time the state is using lethal injection,” said Deborah W. Denno, a Fordham University law professor and a death-penalty expert. “I don’t think Nebraska wins points by going down this route in the long run.” Read full article.
Deborah Denno was quoted in a Marshall Project article about the role of neuroscience in the criminal justice system. Over the past two decades, brain scans and other neuroscientific evidence have become commonplace in courtrooms. So much so that a defendant can file an “ineffective assistance of counsel” claim if his or her lawyer fails to introduce relevant brain tests. And defense lawyers ordinarily submit brain imaging to bolster claims of their clients’ incompetency or insanity. Still some legal scholars and attorneys decry the growing presence of neuroscience in courtrooms, calling it a “double-edged sword” that either unduly exonerates…
Steve Thel was quoted in TheStreet article about Elon Musk’s remarks on trying to take Tesla private using Saudi funding. Nothing in his remarks concerning the Saudi wealth fund clarifies his enigmatic assertion that funding has been secured. Moreover, his insistence of speaking publicly does nothing to either advance a takeover or to quell questions about whether he was telling the truth, said Steve Thel, a law professor with expertise in securities regulation at Fordham Law School. “If what he’s trying to do is put together a takeover he should be quiet,” Thel told TheStreet in a phone interview. “Most…
Deborah Denno was quoted in a Washington Post article about the use of drugs as capital punishment. In three suits filed since last year, drug manufacturers and distributors have taken aim at states on the verge of carrying out executions, accusing them of using deceit to obtain the chemicals and demanding states return them. Experts say the drug companies are turning to the courts as a last resort. “The companies have found that you have to up the ante because a threat is simply not enough,” said Deborah W. Denno, a law professor at Fordham University and a death penalty…
Alumna Georgene M. Vairo ’79 has been elected chairwoman by Sweet Briar College Board of Directors. Vairo also served as an associate dean at the Fordham Law. During its August meeting, the Sweet Briar College Board of Directors elected Georgene M. Vairo ’72 chairwoman. Andrew C. Benjamin was elected vice chair and Marianne “Mimi” C. Fahs ’71 was named secretary. Lynn Pasquerella, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, was confirmed as a new board member. … Vairo has been the David P. Leonard Professor of Law at Loyola of Los Angeles Law School since 1995. Since 2007,…
John Pfaff was quoted in a WSB-TV article about Wisconsin’s prison population. The state could halve the number of people entering into prisons every year by keeping nonviolent offenders out of prison, but could not cut the prison population itself in half, said John Pfaff, a criminal law professor at Fordham University who reviewed Wisconsin’s prison admissions and population. Wisconsin admitted more than 9,000 new prisoners in 2016 and about 45 percent of those committed a violent crime. Pffaf points out that offenders convicted of violent crimes serve longer sentences, often lasting more than a year. So on top of…
Adjunct Professor Jerry Goldfeder co-authored an op-ed for the New York Law Journal about election law. In 1960 Richard Nixon and John Kennedy battled for New York’s all-important 45 electoral college votes. Nixon proved more popular among Republicans than Kennedy was among Democrats—Nixon received 3,446,419 votes on the GOP line to Kennedy’s 3,423,909 on the Democratic line, a margin for Nixon of some 23,000 votes. In any other state in the union, Nixon would have won the state and all of its electoral college votes. That would have resulted in 264 electoral college votes for Nixon—just short of the magic…
Alumna Jill Heitler Blomberg ’97, partner at Schoonmaker, George, Colin & Blomberg, was sworn in as president of the Connecticut chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Active with the chapter since 2011, Blomberg has previously served as vice president, secretary and treasurer and has served on its managing board since 2010. Blomberg’s practice concentrates on family law. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and a fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. … Blomberg is a Top 25 female Connecticut Super Lawyer, and Top 50 female New England Super Lawyer. She is…