Adjunct Professor Joel Cohen co-authored an op-ed in Law and Crime regarding Roger Stone’s indictment in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation. Roger Stone was arraigned on Tuesday. After he was arrested last week, he presented himself on the courthouse steps as a conquering hero. Does he have any idea what’s really in store for him? It’s rare that a federal indictment – particularly one criminally charging an associate of the president of the United States – directly invokes a Godfather movie character. But then again, how often do we see headlines such as “President Trump Brings Mafia Ethics to…
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Adjunct Professor Matt Gold appeared on Bloomberg TV where he discussed U.S. criminal charges against Huawei Technologies, trade talks between the U.S. and China, and tariffs. I think right now the best case scenario is that the Chinese agree to go back to the kinds of talks with the United States that we had under the Obama administration without all the pain of the trade war. Watch full video.
Howard Erichson was quoted in a Reuters article about who should be included as class members in Logitech Inc.’s class action lawsuit. How can federal judges best protect the interests of class members who may not even know their rights are at stake? And can they look out for absent class members without compromising defendants’ rights and federal policies encouraging settlements? An important policy debate about those questions heated up this weekend, when U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco refused to stay a consumer class action accusing the computer peripherals company Logitech of falsely advertising the number of…
Jennifer Gordon wrote an op-ed in Foreign Policy about policymakers emphasizing investment and trade as a possible measure to reduce migration from less developed countries. Amid today’s global immigration crises, wealthy governments are seeking ways to keep out newcomers. Border security measures (typically more sophisticated than U.S. President Donald Trump’s wall) are often first on the list. But other ideas are gaining adherents as well. In the European Union and elsewhere, policymakers are betting that investment and trade will reduce migration from less developed countries. Put money into export-oriented jobs where the would-be workers are, the theory goes, and fewer…
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold appeared on SiriusXM’s show Knowledge@Wharton where he discussed U.S. trade relations under the Trump administration. President Trump has allowed [U.S. enforcement of our counterterrorism export laws] to get intermixed with the [China] trade war which [is about China] not fulfilling its obligations to the United States under the World Trade Organization agreements, and not giving U.S. goods, services and investment capital the kind of access to the Chinese market that they agreed to when they entered the WTO. Those are really two different issues. It’s unfortunate that they’ve gotten mixed together [which] makes it harder for…
David Udell, executive director of the National Center for Access to Justice at Fordham Law School, was featured in a Law360 article where he discussed initiatives to grow access-to-justice research. Ever since his days as a young boy enrolled at a Quaker summer camp, David Udell has been interested in justice. The executive director of the National Center for Access to Justice, housed at Fordham Law School, said the “values-driven experiences” he had at camp, coupled with growing up in the shadow of Watergate, taught him a core lesson “about the importance of the rule of law applying to everyone…
Bruce Green was quoted in a New York Times article about what the law says you should do if you find money on the ground. As I got off a train in Manhattan on Wednesday, I paid little attention to a flutter out of the corner of my eye on the subway. Then another passenger told me that I had dropped some money. “That isn’t mine,” I told her as I glanced at what turned out to be $90 on the ground. I realized the flutter had been the money falling out of the coat of a man standing near…
Bruce Green was quoted in a New York Times article about the Harvey Weinstein investigation. Harvey Weinstein has started to cast his new “dream team” of lawyers to represent him against sexual assault charges in Manhattan, and two of them recently represented one of his most vocal accusers, the actress Rose McGowan. Mr. Weinstein, the movie mogul who became a symbol of the #MeToo movement after dozens of women accused him of sexual misconduct, has assembled a team including a former Manhattan prosecutor and three litigators with a history of representing celebrity clients, a person familiar with the discussions said.…
Clinical Associate Professor Cheryl Bader appeared in a CBS New York video where she discussed the murder trial of a New Jersey man accused of killing his childhood friend. Opening statements started Wednesday in the murder trial of a New Jersey man accused of killing his childhood friend and dumping her body in the ocean in December 2016. Prosecutors say it was a scheme to steal money the victim’s deceased mother left her. Liam McAtasney, 21, allegedly strangled Sarah Stern, 19, during a robbery at her Neptune City home and then, with the help of his roommate, tossed her body…
Adjunct Professor Lawrence Brennan was quoted in a Stars and Stripes article about the legal battle involving the collision of the USS Fitzgerald. The court-martial of Cmdr. Bryce Benson, who was the commanding officer of the USS Fitzgerald when it was involved in a deadly 2017 collision, has taken a new turn. A military judge has disqualified Navy Adm. Frank Caldwell from serving as the convening authority in Benson’s case, effectively pausing the legal action against him and raising the possibility that the charges could be dismissed. … “It’s a major win” for Benson and his legal team, said Lawrence…