Will a lot of new federal regulations target the fashion industry over the next couple of years? Fordham Law Professor Susan Scafidi, founder and director of the Fashion Law Institute, shares her expert opinion with Vogue Business. New York governor Kathy Hochul finished 2024 by signing the Fashion Workers Act into law. The pro-labour bill will give models access to workplace protection and introduce tighter regulation to the management companies that represent them, meaning change is on its way for how the modelling industry operates. Hochul signed the Act into law just ahead of the 24 December deadline, and the legislation will go into effect in June 2025. The bill, which was first introduced in 2022 and had previously gotten stuck in regulatory procedures, passed the State Senate in May…
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Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, joins 94.1 KPFA to analyze President-elect Donald Trump’s ominous response to the recent attacks in the United States as well as to discuss her article in The Nation titled “Trump Brought the War on Terror Home — and He’ll Do It Again.” This hour broadcasts the show produced by Background Briefing with Ian Masters on Sunday. Listen to the complete Jan. 6, 2025, episode, “Background Briefing (Monday, 5am): Karen Greenberg / Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Craig Aaron.”
David Udell, founder and executive director of the National Center for Access to Justice at Fordham Law School, is quoted in this Law360 article that breaks down what legal aid and access to justice leaders will be focused on as they await the potential impacts of a new presidential administration and the GOP-controlled Congress. Nonattorney Legal Assistants The introduction of “justice workers,” or nonattorney community service workers who can provide certain basic legal services, continued to be a major priority for many access to justice leaders in 2024. Despite lingering concerns over rules forbidding the unlicensed practice of law, many…
President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced in his “hush money” case in Manhattan criminal court next week on Jan. 10, just 10 days before he takes office for his second term as president. Alice Gainer and Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader report for CBS News New York. Watch the segment, “President-elect Donald Trump to be sentenced next week in ‘hush money’ case,” on CBS News New York.
Fordham Law Professor Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, weighs in on the “duty of confidentiality” after New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on Thursday, Jan. 2, that her office has a conflict of interest in the criminal investigation of multiple correction officers who allegedly beat inmate Robert L. Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility. Bruce A. Green, a former assistant U.S. attorney and chair of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics at Fordham Law School, said that any prior civil lawsuits involving the 13 correction officers in the Marcy incident may…
Fordham Law Zephyr Teachout is quoted in this Law360 article covering President-elect Donald Trump’s call for the Supreme Court to freeze the impending deadline for TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban. She and Digital Progress Institute President Joel L. Thayer catalog, in an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, how Congress has previously restricted foreign ownership of communications companies. However, the federal government and several former national security officials and Federal Communications Commission officials contend the law is just the latest in a long line of legislation that seeks to limit foreign adversaries’ control…
At a recent conference co-hosted by Lawfare and the Georgetown Institute for Law and Technology, Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma moderated a conversation between NYU School of Law Professor Catherine Sharkey, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Professor Bryan Choi, and Kat Geddes, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU School of Law and the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech, on “Old Laws, New Tech: How Traditional Legal Doctrines Tackle AI.” Listen to the complete Dec. 26, 2024 episode, “Lawfare Daily: Old Laws, New Tech: How Traditional Legal Doctrines Tackle AI.”
Fordham Law Professor Jennifer Gordon is quoted in a Newsday article that follows an Ecuadorian migrant, who arrived in New York City in January 2024 with his two sons, in his journey navigating the country’s complex and overwhelmed immigration system. Jennifer Gordon, a law professor at Fordham University in the Bronx and an expert in immigration law, said that, amid the spike in asylum cases, a growing number of migrants cannot find an attorney. “It’s just a massively larger number of people trying to go through the same system,” she said. Immigration lawyers are taking more unpaid cases, but they can’t…
In this Bloomberg Law article, ethics attorneys—including Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics at Fordham Law—agree that the incoming Justice Department chief of staff and his federal judge wife will need to steer clear of each other’s overlapping matters to avoid ethical conflicts. Kathryn Mizelle will be required ethically to recuse herself from cases related to policies where her husband was involved, while Chad Mizelle must refrain from discussing ongoing Justice Department matters in his wife’s courtroom, ethics experts said. If Mizelle is “closely involved” with a policy being challenged in court, the judge…
In this New York Daily News op-ed, Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry H. Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, explains how the new president can help abolish the Electoral College. It hasn’t been reported how Donald Trump celebrated his official election this week, but I have an idea how he should mark the occasion. He should take a leaf out of President Richard Nixon’s playbook and do the unexpected. Let me explain. In 1971, way before he was mired in the Watergate corruption that brought him down, Nixon, a life-long anti-Communist, declared that he would…