The Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.) is now weighing whether to revoke Harvard’s tax exemption as the Trump administration demands that the university make changes to its hiring, admissions, and curriculum policies. Fordham Law Professor Gowri Krishna ’06 spoke to The New York Times about whether the I.R.S. can revoke tax-exempt status of an educational institution. Can the I.R.S. revoke tax-exempt status? The I.R.S. determines which organizations meet the criteria for tax-exempt status. The agency has at times revoked tax-exempt status, including after audits that found political or commercial activities that violated the terms of eligibility. In the past, the I.R.S. has challenged the tax exemptions…
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Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout’s new monthly column with The Nation, “Anti-Monopolist,” focuses on “corruption and monopoly power, corporate behemoths and the mercenary politicians beholden to them.” In this month’s column, Professor Teachout discusses the disconnect between—and public debate over—trade, tariffs, sovereignty, and industrial policy. Donald Trump’s tariffs are a devastating blow to America, akin to the Covid-19 pandemic in their scope. They will spike consumer prices, hurt small businesses, bankrupt farmers, and have long-lasting extremely damaging macro effects. But there’s another risk, too: that the Trump vortex is warping public debate over trade, sovereignty, and industrial policy. Read “Trade, Monopoly, and the…
Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout says Democrats want to see activism among its leadership in resisting President Trump and his policies, in this article in The New York Times. “What people can learn from Cory Booker and Chris Van Hollen is there is an incredible hunger for putting the body down in the tracks,” said Zephyr Teachout, the progressive Fordham Law professor who has run unsuccessfully for governor and attorney general in New York. “What Jeffries publicly suggests is a kind of impotence. There’s a hunger for leadership and a sense that the two most powerful Democrats aren’t there.” Read…
As the trade war between China and the U.S. continues to simmer, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s recent fashion choice has caused an online controversy. Susan Scafidi, founder and director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, spoke with Women’s Wear Daily about the U.S.-China trade war and what it means for fashion. Susan Scafidi, founder of the Fashion Law Institute at the Fordham University School of Law, said, “After days of Chinese TikTok posts claiming that luxury fashion is actually made in China — exaggerated tales with a few grains of truth — it’s no wonder that a red…
In this article for Tech Policy Press and Just Security, Fordham Law Professor Olivier Sylvain breaks down various United States laws aimed at regulating social media. These state statutes, he says, can be lumped into three categories: content moderation, data protection, and child online safety laws. Louis Brandeis famously observed that, in the United States’ system of government, the states are the laboratories of experimentation. But, given the paralysis of federal congressional leadership today, the states have proven to be so much more. Right now, they are in the vanguard of tech policy, enacting laws addressed to issues at the…
Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, spoke with The Guardian US about the firing squad’s revival and resurgence as a method of execution in the United States. The promise that execution will be fast and painless is also one reason for the firing squad’s revival. One example of that promise is provided by the law professor Deborah Denno, who says: “The firing squad is the only current form of execution involving trained professionals, and it delivers a swift and certain death.” She cites “a 1938 Utah study – the only…
Fordham Law Professor Atinuke Adediran—who writes about business, law, and society—says in this Bloomberg Law op-ed that Big Law firms helping the Trump administration negotiate tariffs pro bono is a violation of legal ethics and the rule of law. Big Law firms helping the Trump administration negotiate tariff terms pro bono would be antithetical to the purpose of pro bono practice. President Donald Trump has targeted major law firms who represented his adversaries, challenged actions he favors, investigated his first administration, or employ lawyers who have been critical of him. Some of these executive orders take sweeping actions, such as…
Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, spoke with HuffPost about the Trump administration’s migrant detention policy. Those who helped fight for due process protections at Guantánamo Bay under the administration of President George W. Bush view the Trump administration’s migrant detention policy as an escalation of war on terror legal tactics. … “The reason they’ve moved out of Guantánamo is, and this is ironic, but there’s too much rule of law there,” said Karen Greenberg, the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law and author of multiple books on Guantánamo…
How many inmates have been put to death using a firing squad execution in the United States? Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, knows the answer for this CNN article from years of extensive research on the method. The firing squad is among the country’s oldest execution methods, according to Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham Law School who studies the death penalty and execution methods. But it’s been used rarely, with just over 140 inmates put to death using that method since 1608, per her research. Read…
After Eric Adams announced he would run for New York City mayor again as an independent candidate, Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, points out in this amNY op-ed the “quirky law” that allows him to do so and get on the November 2025 ballot. Read “The Mayor’s ‘Independent’ Candidacy” in the April 9, 2025 edition of amNY. Read “The Mayor’s ‘Independent’ Candidacy” on amNY. April 9, 2025 Publish at Calameo pic.twitter.com/lLwitGLwo0 — Jerry Goldfeder (@JerryGoldfeder) April 9, 2025