Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, joined 94.1 KPFA to discuss the current strategy between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk and what authority Musk wields within Trump’s administration. This hour broadcasts the show produced by Background Briefing with Ian Masters on Sundays. Listen to the complete March 6, 2025, episode, “Background Briefing (Monday, 5am): Allen Frances / Alex Lawson / Karen Greenberg.”
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Fordham Law Dean Emeritus John D. Feerick, FCRH ’58, LAW ’61 shares his story behind one of the last amendments to the Constitution—the 25th Amendment, which deals with presidential succession and inability—with NPR’s Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei on the latest episode of THROUGHLINE. The episode is part of NPR’s series We the People. FEERICK: I was vice president of my class and also the student body. That service experience was very important because I saw that you could make differences. ARABLOUEI: And it was in the college student government where John had his first experience with the problem of…
After female Democratic members of Congress wore pink to protest the Trump administration’s policies they say negatively impact women and families, Susan Scafidi, director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, spoke with HuffPost about whether color coordination really is an effective protest. When played right, color coordination can be powerful. In moments when you’re not empowered to speak, fashion can do the talking for you, said Susan Scafidi, a professor, and founder and director of Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School. “On an evening when the members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus have no microphone, their collective splash of bright…
As South Carolina plans to carry out the first firing squad execution in 15 years in the United States, Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, spoke with The Associated Press about the history of the unusual method to carry out the death penalty, currently only authorized in five states. One of the reasons firing squads did not gain much use beyond Utah was that people viewed them as barbaric, according to Deborah Denno, a criminologist at Fordham School of Law. … Denno urged policymakers to reconsider firing squads…
Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, spoke to The Post and Courier about whether the execution of the first death row inmate to be executed by firing squad in the last 15 years would open the door to more-frequent firing squad executions. Of the 144 civilians executed by firing squad in the course of U.S. history (with records dating back to 1608), only two were reported to have been botched, said Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law school professor who has been studying capital punishment for over three…
Fordham Law Professor Julie Suk, author of We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (Skyhorse Publishing, 2020), tracks the century-long journey of the Equal Rights Amendment on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show as part of WNYC’s centennial celebration series, “100 Years of 100 Things.” Listen to the full segment “100 Years of 100 Things: The ERA” on The Brian Lehrer Show‘s March 4, 2025 episode.
Saint Laurent was the first fashion house to count film production among its activities. But Susan Scafidi, director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, explains to The New York Times why other fashion brands may think twice about following their lead in the wake of multiple controversies surrounding Saint Laurent Productions’s “Emilia Pérez.” Despite the existence of “reputational risk insurance,” or “disgrace insurance,” which, Susan Scafidi of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University said, “can be part of other insurance policies or a separate policy designed to cover costs of crisis management and related losses,” human risk is almost…
Dora Galacatos ’96, adjunct professor of law and executive director of the Feerick Center for Social Justice, discusses the importance of civil justice work to an attorney’s practice and how law firms can design and implement successful pro bono programs. For Fordham University School of Law’s Dora Galacatos, a legal clinic offering pro bono counsel is as close to “church” as she’ll get. The adjunct professor and executive director of the Feerick Center for Social Justice at Fordham Law was recently honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Pro Bono and Access to Justice.…
Fordham Law Professors Andrew Kent and Ethan Leib and co-author Jed Shugerman’s 2019 Harvard Law Review article, “Faithful Execution and Article II,” was cited in The New York Times, in regards to the “Take Care” Clause—arguably a major source of presidential power. The expansive reading of the take-care clause favored by unitarians is also undermined by a thorough reading of the history of the language. As Andrew Kent, Ethan J. Leib and Jed Handelsman Shugerman showed in a 2019 article for The Harvard Law Review on the idea of “faithful execution,” the history “points to faithful execution being a restrictive…
After KPMG gained approval to become the first Big Four accounting firm to practice law in the United States, Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics at Fordham Law, pointed out to Bloomberg Law that the initiative faces several new questions—including its unauthorized practice of law in other states. KPMG Law US can practice law in the state on the condition that it refrains from performing legal services for any of KPMG’s audit clients, the court said in the Thursday order. The restrictions have broader application beyond US securities law that prohibit accounting firms from…