Joel Reidenberg, founding academic director of Fordham CLIP, appeared on Bloomberg Law radio where he discussed Facebook’s recent privacy scandals. I think Facebook probably has the largest number of users. So any large scale violation that Facebook does will affect more people than most other organizations. I think some of the big companies like Google and Amazon are also facing issues, but we certainly hear more about Facebook because of their behavior. Listen to the full podcast.
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Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote a post in TomDispatch.com about the problems affecting children around the world. When it comes to creating bitter futures, the Trump administration’s treatment of children at the border is of a piece with the larger global attack on them. While on a smaller scale than in the Greater Middle East and beyond, acts against the young at our southern border certainly should evoke their counterparts elsewhere. In December and January, for example, the first deaths of children were recorded at American border detention centers. In addition,…
Benjamin Barros ’96 was elected to serve a three-year term on the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). “Dean Barros is well-positioned to serve legal education as a member of the AALS Executive Committee,” Judith Areen, executive director of AALS, said. “His thoughtful advice and prior experience on the committee will help guide the association in our efforts to advance excellence in legal education.” “Law and lawyers are essential to our society and our democracy, and our profession is rooted in legal education,” Barros said. “I am honored to have this opportunity to serve the AALS…
Howard Erichson was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about Logitech Inc.’s class action lawsuit. Logitech Inc. will have to live with a federal judge’s standing order that prevents it from settling a consumer class action over the quality of its computer speakers, the judge said Jan. 18. Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California defended his general rule prohibiting parties from engaging in class settlement negotiations until the court rules on class certification. Alsup provides the same class action guidance at the start of every proposed class action assigned to him. “No…
Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times about the problems affecting children around the world. Just watch a night of television and catch the plentiful ads extolling the bouncy exuberance of our kids — seat-belted into SUVs, waving pennants at sports events or basking in their parents’ praise for doing homework. If you think about it, you’ll soon grasp the deep disparity between the image of childhood in the United States and the global reality of children in crisis. North to south, east to west, children…
Bruce Green was quoted in a New York Times article about the possibility that El Chapo will take the stand in his drug trial. The drug kingpin might want a shot at telling his own story in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. It would be yet another startling development in a trial that has already delivered many sensational moments. Mr. Lichtman has told reporters it is only a “possibility” that Mr. Guzmán might testify. “It’s his absolute right to testify or not to testify,” another of his attorneys, A. Eduardo Balarezo, said in an interview. … “He may feel that…
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, a book about the life of alumna Eunice Carter ’32, was featured in thisistheBronX.info. A graduate of the class of 1932, Ms Carter attended law school while raising her son and working a full-time position as a supervisor in the Harlem division of the Emergency Unemployment Committee. No easy task even in today’s world of modern conveniences and equal rights. After receiving her law degree, she became the first African American woman to serve as a New York assistant district attorney, as well as…
Bruce Green was quoted in The Atlantic regarding whether President Trump committed obstruction of justice. Obstruction of justice and perjury are crimes that turn on state of mind, but the details in the BuzzFeed News report would leave Trump with few defenses. “If President Trump instructed Michael Cohen to testify to Congress, giving an account of the Russia project that Trump knew to be false, that’s obstruction of justice,” said Bruce Green, a law professor at Fordham and a former associate counsel in the Iran-Contra investigation. “It’s hard to imagine that Trump would have had an innocent ‘state of mind.’…
Tanya Hernández appeared on CUNY TV’s Shades of U.S. where she discussed racial discrimination and bias. I have definitely experienced racism. One of my earliest memories of skin-color bias being targeted at me was about at the age of eight when I had a pen pal assigned to me… Watch full video.
Jed Shugerman was quoted in a Newsweek article about the recent vote by House Republicans against a Treasury Department plan that would lift sanctions on the companies of Russian oligarch and Kremlin ally Oleg Deripaska. In a surprise move Thursday, the House voted against a Treasury Department plan that would lift sanctions on the companies of Russian oligarch and Kremlin ally Oleg Deripaska … Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham Law, told Newsweek that, although Deripaska will lose majority control of his three companies, the Treasury’s plan will benefit the oligarch, and by extension, Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Given…