In the latest episode of Engineering Matters, Fordham Law Professsor Chinmayi Sharma shares her proposal for a ‘Hippocratic Oath for AI’ that could bring the same professional duties to artificial intelligence developers as are followed by surgeons. Listen to the complete Feb. 13, 2025 episode, “#316 What Can AI Engineers Learn From Medical Professionals?”
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Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout’s new monthly column with The Nation, “Anti-Monopolist,” will focus on “corruption and monopoly power, corporate behemoths and the mercenary politicians beholden to them.” “Zephyr Teachout has been on our editorial board for a while now, but given our steep descent towards oligarchy, her focus on corruption and corporate power is too valuable not to share with our readers regularly,” said Nation editor D.D. Guttenplan. “The day I spent in 2016 riding around the Hudson Valley with Zephyr and her campaign manager remains one of the high points in my political education.” … “I am so proud to be joining The Nation as columnist, where some of the most…
Danielle R. Sassoon, who resigned Thursday as Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, wrote to Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi to explain her refusal to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Sassoon accused the Department of Justice official who ordered the dismissal of playing politics and engaging in an unethical quid pro quo. A 2021 article co-authored by Fordham Law Professor Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, “Who Should Police Politicization of the DOJ?,” was referenced in Sassoon’s letter, laying out the case why the judge shouldn’t dismiss the charges either. In…
Days after Kanye West’s Yeezy site started selling only one product—a white T-shirt imprinted with a black swastika—Shopify stopped processing Yeezy orders and deactivated the Yeezy site Thursday, Feb. 13. Susan Scafidi, founder and director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, speculated to Women’s Wear Daily why the e-commerce platform made the decision to do so. Susan Scafidi, founder of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University, said that while unlike in Germany, “it is legal in the U.S. to sell items that use the swastika to advocate Nazism, the T-shirts may have violated Shopify’s ‘Acceptable Use Policy,’ which prohibits actions…
After the Department of Justice told federal prosecutors in Manhattan to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Bennett Capers, associate dean for research at Fordham Law, spoke to The New York Times about what “the real harm” of this order is. Bennett Capers, a former prosecutor for the Southern District of New York and a professor at the Fordham University School of Law, said “the real harm” of the Justice Department’s order “is to the idea that the rule of law applies to everyone and is free from politics. The real harm is to all of us.” Read “Justice…
Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, was interviewed for an audio report by NPR about what it is like to cover the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility on the island of Cuba. PFEIFFER: I think the futility of it. Someone wrote an article in The Atlantic a while back that said this about the futility of Guantanamo – the quote was, “Guantanamo was where you send a mass murderer if you want him to die of old age while those prosecuting him drown in paperwork.” So I’ve tried to convey that futility, but every…
In a co-authored op-ed for The Hill, Fordham Law Professor Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, argues why Ed Martin, Trump’s top D.C. prosecutor, should not be allowed to prosecute defense attorneys he once opposed. A newly-appointed U.S. attorney is putting an unfortunate twist on the satirist Juvenal’s ancient question: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” — “Who will guard the guards themselves?” Edward R. Martin, Jr., became the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. after previously defending many Jan. 6 protestors. Within hours of his appointment, Martin opened an investigation into whether his office, under Biden-era leadership, engaged in misconduct in…
In this report by The Cut, policy experts—including Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout, author of “Break ‘Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money”—share their advice on how to spot surveillance pricing and fight it when it happens. Try to plan ahead. Zephyr Teachout, an attorney and professor at Fordham University who specializes in antitrust law, points out that you’re more likely to be targeted with higher prices if you seem to be in a rush. “If you order a car service to go to a hospital, you might pay more than if you were…
Idaho lawmakers have advanced a bill to make the state’s newly revived firing squad its main method of execution as the quadruple murder trial of University of Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger approaches. Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, spoke with FOX News about the firing squad being the most efficient and humane means of execution. One of the country’s leading experts on capital punishment, Fordham University professor Deborah Denno, has also argued that the firing squad is an effective and humane method of execution. “We’ve had three…
Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, joined Spectrum News NY1 political reporter Bobby Cuza on “Inside City Hall” Tuesday to discuss the logistics of detaining thousands of people at Guantánamo Bay. “The calculation which we haven’t seen yet of what this will actually cost is said to be somewhere in the hundreds of millions just to get it set up, not to mention what it will cost to run it,” Greenberg said. Read “National security expert talks about Trump’s plan to detain migrants at Guantánamo Bay” and watch the full segment on…