In this op-ed for Salon, Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, comments on President Donald Trump’s first 50 days of his Oval Office return. Four years ago, I published “Subtle Tools,” a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror. Both what had been done in the name of “national security” in response to the 9/11 attacks and how it had been done — through the willing neglect of procedural integrity, the exploitation of all-too-flexible norms, a remarkable disregard for transparency and…
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Another condemned inmate has chosen to die by firing squad, putting South Carolina on track to set a national record for the shortest interval between uses of the firing squad in modern times. Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, shares her thoughts with The Post and Courier on the resurgence and increasing favor of firing squads executions. Deborah Denno, a Fordham Univesity law school professor who has been studying the death penalty for over three decdes, said she won’t be surprised if firing squads executions become more common.…
Immigrant advocates Sarya Baladi ’25 and Annie Chen ’09 were honored with the Feerick Center for Social Justice’s Defender of the Dream Award at its 10th Annual FriendRaiser on March 6. The Feerick Center promotes the rights and addresses the problems facing marginalized and low-income New Yorkers and individuals seeking humanitarian relief, including asylum-seeking families and unaccompanied immigrant children. It also links the social justice community serving those in need to Fordham and engages the Fordham community in service of national and local social justice initiatives. Established in 2022, the Defender of the Dream Award recognizes members of the Fordham…
Fordham Law Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández’s 2022 book, Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality, was reviewed by the New York Amsterdam News. There is a general belief in the United States that Latinos can’t be racist. Both Black and Latino communities have faced decades of discrimination. The Black community — composed of African Americans and others of African descent — confronts race-based discrimination, while Latinos confront ethnic discrimination. The two groups have frequently joined together to fight for civil rights. Yet, as Fordham University Law Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández points out in her 2022 book, “Racial Innocence: Unmasking…
In this op-ed for amNY, Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, writes about the petitioning process for candidates to appear on the ballots for this year’s city elections. Read “An Easier Path to Get on the Ballot” in the March 26, 2025 edition of amNY. March 26. 2025 Publish at Calameo pic.twitter.com/cjOZ6uZJB3 — Jerry Goldfeder (@JerryGoldfeder) April 3, 2025
In this op-ed for The Guardian US, Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout argues that University presidents “need to be working together to speak up against” President Donald Trump. Across the country, higher education is facing a crisis that threatens the entire vision of independence: a direct federal government effort to destroy academic freedom by controlling ideas and acceptable areas of inquiry. University leaders should be standing in solidarity with those who have been attacked to defend academic freedom and free speech. So far, all but five have been silent. … I don’t want to sugarcoat it: Trump could cause real…
In this op-ed featured in the Washington Monthly, Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout reviewed “Abundance,” a new book written by New York Times columnist Ezra Klein and the Atlantic writer Derek Thompson that in part explores the roadblocks to abundant housing, clean energy, transportation, and tech innovation. America is in a funk. People are unhappy with every major institution of government, from Congress to the Supreme Court to newspapers to the Democratic Party, and they lack confidence in the future. The rent is too damn high and wages too low, the health care system is broken, fires and floods are wrecking our communities, and…
U.S. District Judge James “Jeb” Boasberg is facing growing calls for impeachment from Republican lawmakers after ordering to pause deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader spoke with Newsweek about whether he can be impeached. Cheryl Bader, a Fordham Law School professor, told Newsweek in an email Saturday: “I know of no precedent for impeaching a judge because a separate branch of government is unhappy with the judge’s ruling and wants to punish the judge rather than go through the proper appeals process. This is a disturbing congressional assault on an independent judiciary.” Read “Can Judge James Boasberg Be…
Fordham Law Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández’s 2021 video, “THE BIG IDEA: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias,” was referenced in this Daily Kos article, in regards to the enduring legacy of slavery in Puerto Rico. Hernández expands the discussion beyond Puerto Ricans in this short video about white supremacist Latinos, a subject I addressed here: Professor Tanya Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law and an internationally recognized comparative race law expert. She focuses her scholarship on the study of comparative race relations and anti-discrimination law. Professor Hernández excavates the otherwise silenced voices of the Afro-Latino and African American victims of Latino…
A growing number of law schools offer master’s degrees for non-lawyers to help them excel in a variety of fields where law comes into play. Barbara-Ann Boehler, senior director of the Corporate Compliance and Ethics program, discussed the benefits of a Fordham Law M.S.L. in Corporate Compliance degree, with The National Jurist. Barbara-Ann Boehler, senior director of the Corporate Compliance and Ethics program at Fordham University School of Law, said there is a seriousness of purpose when you take on a master’s degree program and invest in your future. “People respond to that in a positive way in the marketplace,” she…