Professor Aaron Saiger was quoted in a Time article about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Saiger served as a law clerk to Justice Ginsburg from 2001 to 2002. With the 25th anniversary of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s confirmation to the Supreme Court on Friday, a precedent set during her hearings has become a hot topic on Capitol Hill. Under the so-called “Ginsburg standard,” a nominee for the Supreme Court may withhold from commenting on topics or cases that could come up before the bench in the future. … “What has happened to the rule since is that, as the nominations…
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Adjunct Professor Ralph H. Cathcart has been named an influential black lawyer by Savoy Magazine. Cathcart teaches intellectual property at Fordham Law. Ralph H. Cathcart is a Managing Partner of the Litigation Group at Ladas & Parry LLP, an international intellectual property boutique law firm. Cathcart focuses on copyright and trademark litigation before the federal courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Cathcart provides opinion work, counsel on brand strategies and portfolio management and implements national enforcement and anticounterfeiting programs for clients. Cathcart has also trained U.S. Customs agents on counterfeit detection. Read full report.
Toni Jaeger-Fine, assistant dean for international and non-J.D. programs, was quoted in an LLM Guide article about the factors that influence LL.M. admission decisions. Fordham University School of Law Toni Jaeger-Fine, Assistant Dean for International and Non-JD Programs at Fordham University School of Law says, “academic performance is important, but our team will always look holistically at an application.” “If you didn’t do so well academically, you can make up for it with other things in your file,” says Jaeger-Fine. “For example, work experience, or really good TOEFL, really good letters of recommendation or a wonderful essay.” Read full article.
Adjunct professor and executive director of Fordham CLIP, N. Cameron Russell, was quoted in a New York Times article about student data privacy. Student lists are now available for purchase on the basis of ethnicity, affluence, religion, lifestyle, awkwardness and even a predicted need for family planning services, according to a study released in June by Fordham University’s Center on Law and Information Policy. Where that information was drawn from is mostly undisclosed, the study found. “There’s a continuum of data collectors, data sharers and data users within this large ecosystem,” said N. Cameron Russell, the center’s executive director, describing…
Andrew Kent was mentioned in a Mother Jones article about the possible impact of Attorney General Jeff Sessions breaking his recusal and firing special counsel Robert Mueller. Should Sessions fire Mueller or intervene in the probe, the only potential recourse would be through the courts — and even that route is hazy. While internal Justice Department regulations are not laws, the Supreme Court has held that an agency must follow those rules unless the department first repeals or rewrites them, according to Andrew Kent, a judicial ethics expert at Fordham University School of Law. Under the department’s special counsel regulations,…
Alumnus Jon Lamphier ’06 has been named managing director of U.S. tax practice by global growth expert Radius. “Jon’s experience helping private equity and corporate clients with tax issues at home and abroad is a real asset to our U.S. tax practice,” said Stephen Chipman, chief executive officer for Radius. “The global tax landscape is changing rapidly, and our clients stand to really benefit from Jon’s broad technical expertise.” … He holds a law degree from Fordham Law School and a Masters of Law in taxation from New York University School of Law. He is a member of the tax…
Nicholas Johnson was quoted in a Washington Post article about U.S. gun control laws. “There’s nothing in federal law that prohibits private parties from making their own firearms as long as they’re not prohibited people in the first place, and that’s long been the case,” said Nicholas Johnson, a professor of law at Fordham University. “The basic idea of home manufacturing for personal use is pretty uncontroversial, or has been.” Read full article.
Alumna Stacey J. Rappaport ’96 has been elected to the Executive Committee of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is pleased to announce Stacey J. Rappaport has been elected to the firm’s Executive Committee, effective July 12, 2018. Ms. Rappaport succeeds partner Marc Hanrahan, and will join Chairman Scott A. Edelman and partners Dennis Dunne, Marcelo Mottesi and David Zemans on the five-member Committee. … Currently, she is leading the defense of major insurance companies in cost of insurance adjustment class action litigation. “It is an honor to serve on the firm’s Executive Committee,”…
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold appeared on the Marketplace Podcast where he discussed the possible impact of U.S. tariffs on the medicinal root ginseng, a product that is currently caught up in the trade war. Question: So if I am a ginseng farmer in Wisconsin when all of American ginseng comes, what am I thinking right now…? [T]his is the price of President Trump’s trade war with China. I am thinking… he the President is saying that he will win this trade war and I just have to suck it up and support him till he does. Or I am thinking…
Professor Jed Shugerman was mentioned in a Just Security article regarding special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation. The trial of former Trump campaign director Paul Manafort is scheduled to begin today in Virginia before Judge T.S. Ellis. Manafort is facing myriad charges, including tax fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. Manafort, 69, is facing 32 federal criminal charges in Virginia on top of 12 charges in Washington, DC. … Both prosecutions against Manafort were brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is tasked with investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, any links and/or coordination between the Russian government…