Ahead of Luigi Mangione’s expected arraignment Monday in New York City on state murder and terror charges in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader shared her expert opinion with Newsweek about the concepts of a hung jury and jury nullification. What People Are Saying … Cheryl Bader, a Fordham Law School professor, told Newsweek in an email Friday night: “I would be surprised to see a hung jury on the New York second degree murder charge. Based on the evidence the jurors will presumably hear, the prosecution has a very strong case that Mangione is the…
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UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione appeared in federal court in New York City Thursday after waiving extradition in Pennsylvania. CBS News New York’s Lisa Rozner and Alice Gainer, as well as Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader, report for CBS News New York. Watch the segment, “Luigi Mangione appears in court,” on CBS News New York.
On the latest episode of “Legal Spirits” podcast, Fordham Law Professors Sean Griffith and Richard Squire join Mark Movsesian, podcast host and director of the Mattone Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s Law School, to discuss their experience reading C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity with students this past semester. Listen to the complete Dec. 19, 2024 episode, “Legal Spirits 065: Reading CS Lewis in Law School.”
Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, joins American University Washington College of Law Professors Susan D. Carle and Colin Saldanha, “Robes and Lobes” podcast co-hosts, to discuss her broad study of the historical uses of neuroscience in criminal cases. Together, they explore a range of topics, including the way neuroscience has been used and misused in the courtroom; the role of neuroscience in evaluating questions such as mitigating factors and culpability in criminal cases; and the difficulties of translating scientific understandings for use in law by judges and…
When it comes to gender and children, writes Fordham Law Professor Ethan Leib in this Boston Globe essay, there is so much said in private that needs to be expressed in public. For parents of trans kids, that conversation is more important than ever. Behind closed doors, plenty of colleagues, most of whom have children of their own, are willing to debate how we should comport ourselves as we watch the next generation reset gender roles and expectations. Few are hugely invested in sustaining or reinforcing conventional scripts for masculinity and femininity. most concede that “patriarchy,” understood as foundational structures…
In this Columbia Journalism Review article, Fordham Law Professor Olivier Sylvain weighs in on the ambition of President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, to regulate content moderation on social media. In reality, the legal bureaucracy that cordons the FCC off from the executive branch represents a powerful check on Carr and the commission’s other Trump appointees. When I asked Olivier Sylvain, an administrative law scholar at Fordham University, about Carr’s ambition to regulate content moderation on social media by reinterpreting Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, he replied, “You have to explain…
In this The New York Times article, Susan Scafidi, director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, weighs in on naked feet in fashion and society after a barefoot Angelina Jolie recently made her first late night appearance in over a decade. According to Susan Scafidi, the founder of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University, “Most barefoot bans simply reflect private dress codes put in place by restaurants, retailers and others concerned about safety and their own potential liability for splinters, slips and stubbed toes.” The exception being the Occupational Safety and Health Act, which requires employers to ensure that…
Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader is quoted in a USA Today article fact checking claims that President Joe Biden could get involved in a high-profile criminal case and pardon UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is the entity that charged Mangione with second-degree murder, meaning New York Gov. Kathy Hochul could pardon him, Fordham University law professor Cheryl Bader told USA TODAY. … The U.S. Constitution’s ban on presidential clemency for state crimes explains why Biden would not have been able to pardon President-elect Donald Trump after he was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records in his…
In this article for Tech Policy Press, Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma and student Sam Adler ’26 argue the GovAI Coalition offers a compelling model for how governments can work together to navigate the complex landscape of AI governance. In the absence of substantive AI regulation, procurement might be a promising pathway to bridge the AI governance gap. Typically, when we think of the “power of the purse” in AI procurement, we think of federal procurement because setting standards for AI vendors through conditional spending requires a combination of institutional expertise and significant capital. Conventional wisdom suggests that local governments, and even…
Amidst the global surge of refugees and migrants seeking economic opportunities, Fordham Law Professor Gowri Krishna ’06 argues in this Co-op News article that member-managed limited liability companies (LLCs) have become critical for undocumented workers. Examples from the United States In the US, Gowri J. Krishna, a professor of law at Fordham Law School, has highlighted how member-managed LLC co-operatives have become critical for undocumented workers, particularly in industries like hospitality, construction, and domestic work. The US is home to approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants, two thirds of whom have lived there for over a decade. Of these, 7.8 million are part of the workforce, accounting…