Tom Norton, executive director at Fordham Law’s Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP), was quoted in a University of Michigan news article regarding a report developed by Fordham CLIP and the University of Michigan. The report focusses on privacy concerns related to application programming interfaces (APIs). Thomas Norton, executive director of Fordham Law’s Center on Law and Information Policy, and Florian Schaub, assistant professor at the U-M School of Information, will present their report, “APIs and Your Privacy,” at the AT&T Policy Forum’s Symposium on Application Programing Interfaces and Privacy 1-3 p.m. Feb. 5 in Washington, D.C. … Norton…
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The 2019 Fordham-Stein Prize Dinner was featured in the New York Law Journal. This year’s recipient was Justice Elena Kagan, the ninth Supreme Court justice to be honored with the prize. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan spoke to dozens of law students at Fordham University School of Law Monday. She discussed looking for intelligent, interesting clerks who could hold their own in a debate; her interest in a confirmation process that focused on elevated questioning rather than political questions no one answers; and the win she wished former Justice Antonin Scalia would have taken on the issue of textualism…
Sean Griffith was quoted in a Law360 article about his objection to a proposed settlement in a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs. A stockholder challenge to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s non-employee director compensation terms — back in court after a rejected settlement last year — could “open the floodgates” for similar litigation, an attorney for the directors told a Delaware vice chancellor on Monday. Robert J. Giuffra Jr. of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, counsel to the directors named in the suit, made the point while seeking dismissal of the case after Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock III rejected a deal in late…
Joel Reidenberg, founding academic director of Fordham CLIP, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article where he discusses state laws needed to address technology-related privacy concerns. Tech companies have been pushing for a weaker federal law that would preempt the California statute and guarantee a long leash in use of customer data. Facebook’s strong earnings — and the fact that its scandalously bad behavior seems not to be of concern to users — may work in the companies’ favor. “I think business interests will be very aggressive in preempting stronger state laws,” said Joel Reidenberg, a law professor at…
Bruce Green was quoted in a Law360 article about the prevalence of wrongful criminal convictions in the U.S. legal system. Mounting awareness in the U.S. legal system of the prevalence of wrongful criminal convictions hasn’t stopped federal prosecutors around the country from fighting state efforts to codify the government’s duty to help right a miscarriage of justice. Opposition to a post-conviction prosecutor rule was most recently on display in Michigan, but legal ethics experts said U.S. Department of Justice resistance has been a consistent, though not universal, reaction to moves by other state courts to expand prosecutor ethics rules. ……
Alumna Jennifer Gordon ’00 was elected to TPG Specialty Lending, Inc.’s Board of Directors and alumnus Kenneth Burke ’12 was appointed as Chief Compliance Officer. The board of directors (the “Board”) of TPG Specialty Lending, Inc. (NYSE:TSLX) (“TSLX” or “the Company”) announced today that Mr. Hurley Doddy and Ms. Jennifer Gordon were elected to the Company’s Board of Directors on January 31, 2019. Mr. Doddy and Ms. Gordon’s election brings the total number of directors to seven, four of whom are not “interested persons” of the Company as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as…
Toni Jaeger-Fine, assistant dean for international and non-J.D. programs at Fordham Law, appeared in a Nassau Community College radio episode where she discusses her new book, Becoming A Lawyer. I have been working with law students and with attorneys for decades, and, year after year, time after time, I see—even among incredibly bright attorneys, really talented people who have degrees from some of the best law schools in the country—a range of persistent deficits and shortcomings, and I started to think about them in a disciplined way, and it’s those shortcomings that I wrote about in this book dealing mostly…
Tanya Katerí Hernández appeared in an episode of KOOP Radio’s People United where she discussed her book Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination with historian Minkah Makalani. [A]lthough I have been a civil rights lawyer for over 25 years, the book was a way to sort through my own confusion as to how commentators talk about the increase in people who identify as multiracial….So I was trying to figure out why they talk about multiracial identity and the civil rights law in the way that they did. Listen to the full podcast.
Jed Shugerman was quoted in a Hill Reporter article about Roger Stone’s indictment in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation. A law professor said that a pardon from President Trump may not be enough to save Roger Stone, given right-wing author Jerome Corsi’s revelation earlier this week. Corsi said that Stone wanted emails to be released in time to counter the not-yet-released Access Hollywood footage of Donald Trump’s conversation with Billy Bush in which he made offensive comments about women. Fordham Law Professor Jed Shugerman said that while this revelation may not be grounds for charges in the Mueller investigation,…
Alumna Archana Rao ’01 has been appointed judge by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and has been assigned to Criminal Court. She has spent her entire career so far with the New York County District Attorney’s Office working in several bureaus during her 17 year tenure there, is a new appointee, according to a press release from the Mayor’s office Jan. 31. She last served as Bureau Chief of the Financial Frauds Bureau. She joined the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in 2001. She was assigned to the trial division, where, in addition to prosecuting street crime cases, she…