Fordham Law Professor Atinuke Adediran was quoted in Law360 article about Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP’s decision to strike a deal with the Trump administration to defuse an executive order targeting the firm. Still, Atinuke Adediran, a law professor at Fordham University School of Law who studies the interplay between business, law and society, said that regardless of the specifics, the optics of the Paul Weiss deal paint a grim picture of the legal industry in today’s era of uncertainty. “If a great, powerful firm gets out of being targeted in this way, what signal does that send?” she said.…
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Fordham Law Dean Emeritus Matthew Diller asserts in this Bloomberg Law article that President Donald Trump’s recent actions targeting the legal profession will force attorneys to consider their role in upholding democracy. I’m heartened to see reports that nearly 300 associates from the nation’s largest firms have signed a letter calling on firm leaders to stand up to Trump’s actions. However, the most powerful voices in the private bar have mostly remained silent, and Paul Weiss’ decision to placate the administration rather than challenge blatantly illegal action is deeply troubling. Lawyers, especially those in leadership positions, need to rise to the challenge…
In the latest installment of Unscripted Direct Trial Advocacy Podcast‘s new series, “Vexatious Litigants,” Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center Director Adam Shlahet ’02 and Hofstra Law’s Jared Rosenblatt debate whether schools should let students compete twice in the same semester. Listen to the full segment, “Vexatious Litigants,” on Unscripted Direct’s 114th episode, “’How to Ask a Question’ (Interview with Shanin Specter)” (air date March 20, 2025).
Will “dupe culture” be a temporary trend? Fordham Law Professor Susan Scafidi, founder and director of the Fashion Law Institute, weighs in on the movement and shares her expert opinion with Vogue Business on how brands can deal with its legal and cultural ramifications. “The diminutive ‘dupe’ has replaced more negative terms like copycat, replica, knock-off and counterfeit,” says Susan Scafidi, founder and director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School. “Not coincidentally, some younger consumers in particular have come to view dupes as a sign of shopping savvy, indicating that the buyer has the sartorial knowledge to…
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 outlines how the groundwork has been laid for a new Free Speech Movement under President Donald Trump’s second term. In the 1960s, the Free Speech Movement was a rallying cry for students and activists who understood that the right to dissent, argue, and speak freely was essential to democracy. Today, we need a new Free Speech Movement—and not just a retread of the 1960s. A new free speech movement would…
While some states have passed or are considering legislation to allow nitrogen gas executions, Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, comments on how widely the method will be used, in this USA Today article. The Constitution does not guarantee inmates a painless death. But Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University, pointed out judges have deemed certain execution methods cruel and unusual punishment in the past. … The litigation over nitrogen gas might make other states hesitant to use it, Denno said. But she said death penalty states…
Fordham Law Professor Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, comments on President Donald Trump’s pick for Washington’s top prosecutor, Ed Martin—the first person without any prior relevant experience to lead the federal office in more than 50 years, in this The Hill article. Read “Meet Ed Martin, Trump’s ‘ball of fire’ top prosecutor in DC” in The Hill.
Jotwell, the Journal of Things We Like (Lots) (edited by editor-in-chief Michael Froomkin and sponsored by the University of Miami School of Law), examined Intellectual Antiproperty: Export Controls and the Transformation of IP, a forthcoming Iowa Law Review paper written by Fordham Law Professor Doni Bloomfield. Jotwell explains why Professor Bloomfield thinks intellectual property scholars should pay more attention to export controls and secrecy orders. Read “Government Suppression of IP” on Jotwell.
An article by Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma, Fordham Law student Sam Adler ’26, and University of Georgia School of Law Professor Thomas E. Kadri—titled “Brokering Safety,” forthcoming in the California Law Review—was summarized on Legal Theory Blog. For victims of abuse, safety means hiding. Not just hiding themselves, but also hiding their contact details, their address, their workplace, their roommates, and any other information that could enable their abuser to target them. Yet today, no number of name changes and relocations can prevent data brokers from sharing a victim’s personal information online. Thanks to brokers, abusers can find what they need…
The Jews Against Gassing Coalition is not opposed to the death penalty, but its members have spoken out against the prospect of gas executions because, they say, the method evokes the Holocaust. Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, comments on the public opinion of nitrogen hypoxia as a form of execution, in this CNN article. Nitrogen hypoxia also differs from historical lethal gas executions in a couple key respects: First, the fatal gas is not administered in a chamber but – in Alabama and Louisiana – through a…