Ahead of the planned execution for a Tennessee inmate with a heart device, Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, spoke with The Tennessean about the death row inmate’s request in his rare and complicated case. Read “Victims’ family waits for outcome in Nashville death penalty case: ‘God has a plan’” on Tennessean.
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Fordham Law Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández joined Lawyerist’s Stephanie Everett to unpack what diversity, equity, and inclusion really means, where it comes from legally, and how small firms can approach it with clarity and intention. Many law firm owners want to foster inclusive workplaces—but aren’t sure how to do it without missteps or performative gestures. Professor Tanya Hernandez of Fordham Law School joins Stephanie Everett to unpack what DEI really means, where it comes from legally, and how small firms can approach it with clarity and intention. The conversation explores how unconscious bias shows up in hiring and evaluation, why…
Fordham Graduate School of Social Service Professor Lauri Goldkind, Ph.D., and Fordham Law Associate Professor Aniket Kesari, Ph.D., oversaw multiple virtual workshops this year with over 100 leaders and staff of Bronx-based nonprofit organizations, helping them better understand artificial intelligence and digital tech adoption. A New Research Institute for the Bronx Goldkind and Kesari’s project is one of nine that have been funded by the Bronx Research Institute for Community Solutions (BRICS), which was launched in the fall of 2024. Part of Fordham’s Center for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL), BRICS operates under the center’s belief that communities thrive when the focus is foremost on their…
After the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it would approve an ad agency merger if the combined company agrees to never “refuse to place ads on websites for political reasons,” Fordham Law Professor Olivier Sylvain—who previously served as a senior advisor to FTC Chair Lina Khan—spoke with The New York Times about the First Amendment protection for commercial advertising. Formerly known as Twitter, the platform suffered an advertiser exodus after Elon Musk took it over and began using it to promote right-wing talking points, including antisemitism and conspiracy theories. In 2023, dozens of advertisers suspended their spending after two media watchdog groups, the Center for…
Bruce Green, director of Fordham Law’s Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, clarifies to Bloomberg Law whether judges can face sanctions for the kind of errors they find in lawyers’ work. Several lawyers have made news for AI-generated case citations that turned out to be false. Two Manhattan lawyers in 2023 were fined $5,000 for filing a ChatGPT-generated court brief. Last month, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas imposed a $2,500 sanction against a lawyer for submitting a brief that cited non-existent cases. “The use of AI or other technology does not excuse carelessness or…
In this New York Times article, Bruce Green, director of Fordham Law’s Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, comments on whether Todd Blanche, the president’s former lawyer, should interview the lawyer of Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, about the scandal. Legal ethics experts said that Mr. Blanche was likely not affected by a formal conflict of interest by negotiating with Ms. Maxwell as both a top official of the Justice Department and the former lawyer of someone who, in theory, could be implicated by her statements. Still, they said, his involvement in the talks created a murky…
Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, explains to Daily Mail why she is surprised Utah is moving forward with the execution of Ralph Leroy Menzies, who is facing a firing squad on Sept. 5, 2025 for a 1988 kidnapping and killing. BLOOD ATONEMENT Utah is one of five states along with Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma and South Carolina that authorize firing squads as a form of execution. About 42 percent of residents there identify as members of the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS), or Mormon. Deborah Denno, a…
Martin S. Flaherty, Leitner Family Professor of Law at Fordham Law and founding co-director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, provides his legal opinion to NBC New York on whether President Donald Trump can take over New York City if Zohran Mamdani wins the election for mayor this fall. View this post on Instagram A post shared by NBC New York (@nbcnewyork)
Fordham Law Professor Thomas Lee comments on President Donald Trump’s nomination of Eric Tung, a former federal prosecutor, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. President Donald Trump has nominated Eric Tung, a former federal prosecutor, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. If confirmed, Tung would be Trump’s eighth appellate nominee who self-identifies as Asian American or Pacific Islander (AAPI), continuing a trend noted by Bloomberg Law of elevated AAPI representation on the federal bench during Trump’s presidency. “There’s actually a large pool of ideologically conservative Asian Americans with the sufficient experience and…
A longtime critic of exchange-traded funds (ETF)’s tax benefits, Fordham Law Professor Jeffrey Colon spoke with Bloomberg Law about how wealthy investors are using a clever ETF trick to legally sidestep U.S. capital gains taxes—and why that raises concerns. To critics, the growth of these conversions is a sign that ETFs’ tax advantages — while perfectly legal — are now being exploited at a scale that’s increasingly incompatible with a system meant to tax investments when they are sold. “At the end of the day, we really will have been able to diversify our portfolios from high-tech stock to foreign stock,…