At a recent conference co-hosted by Lawfare and the Georgetown Institute for Law and Technology, Georgetown Law Professor Paul Ohm moderated a conversation on “AI Regulation and Free Speech: Navigating the Government’s Tightrope,” between Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein, Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma, and Eugene Volokh, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Listen to the complete Nov. 25, 2024 episode, “Lawfare Daily: AI Regulation and Free Speech: Navigating the Government’s Tightrope.”
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While a student at Fordham Law School focusing on pursuing a career path in public interest Judge Maria Araújo Kahn ’89 never predicted she would one day be a judge. Thirty-five years later, she sits on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals hearing appellate cases arising from the federal district courts within the circuit. “Don’t use law school as a limit. Expose yourself to different areas because you don’t know whether you’ll like something. There’s no one path to becoming a judge,” Judge Kahn said. On October 23, Judge Kahn returned to Fordham Law as the 2024 First to the…
Former prosecutors and academics—including Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics—told Law360 that they are doubtful two of New Jersey’s most politically connected attorneys can convince a judge that the racketeering case against them will have a chilling effect on lawyering. Former prosecutors and academics are doubtful two of New Jersey’s most politically connected attorneys can convince a judge that the racketeering case against them will have a chilling effect on lawyering, given that prosecutors only have to show they knew the end game of the notorious Democratic power broker they’re accused of helping. The defense by…
Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics at Fordham Law, speaks with Bloomberg Law after President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of personal lawyers for top U.S. Department of Justice posts raised alarms of concern. Presidents have historically picked confidants as attorney general, from George Washington’s choice of his personal lawyer as the nation’s first AG to John F. Kennedy tapping his brother. “Often the hope is that people under them have a more independent relationship to the president and are able to offset to some degree the relationship to the attorney general and the president,” said Bruce Green, director…
The Manhattan prosecutor who won the only criminal conviction of Donald Trump faces a 10 a.m. deadline tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov. 19) to say how he thinks the case should proceed in light of former president’s reelection. Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader weighs in on the latest with Bloomberg Law. Cheryl Bader, a professor at Fordham Law School in New York, said that it is more likely the sentencing in the New York case is postponed until after Trump leaves office, rather than the case being thrown out. “The DA’s office put a lot of resources into a well-investigated and well-tried…
Could President-elect Donald Trump pardon New York City Mayor Eric Adams, or could the Department of Justice potentially drop the criminal case against Adams? Bennett Capers, associate dean for research, explained to Spectrum News NY1 that “it’s almost a Hail Mary pass.” “It’s pretty standard for a new president to install his own U.S. attorneys,” said Bennett Capers of Fordham Law School. Capers also served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the same district in the 1990s and 2000s. “So, just as Trump is going to pick an attorney general, he is likely to ask for resignations of U.S. attorneys…
Matthew Giannotti ’27 was assigned to an international task force in the Sinai Peninsula while deployed to the Middle East with the U.S. Army from 2021 to 2022. During that time, he says that he was afforded a rare insight into the functional machinations of international law, “I was enthralled by the legal provisions that aided our coalition of 17 different nations to strive, together, towards a lasting peace.” Now in his first year of law school, Giannotti looks forward to perfecting the balance between his existing commitment with the Pennsylvania Army National Guard and the rigorous academic lifestyle of…
Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader shared her expert opinion with Newsweek about whether former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani could find himself in jail for being in contempt if he does not surrender his assets by Friday, Nov. 15. Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and close ally of President-elect Donald Trump, must turn over his possessions by Friday in a defamation case or he is “about to find himself” in jail for being in contempt, legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said on Saturday. … However, Fordham law professor Cheryl Bader, told Newsweek in an email on Sunday that she believes “jail is…
Bennett Capers, associate dean for research at Fordham Law, spoke to The New York Times about whether President-elect Donald Trump would come to the aid of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who is currently indicted on federal corruption charges. Are there protections in place to prevent the U.S. attorney’s office from becoming politicized? Even if Mr. Trump wanted to derail the prosecution of Mr. Adams, it would not be easily accomplished. To withdraw the charges, prosecutors would have to file a motion explaining their reasons for doing so, which a judge would then rule on. Typically, charges are withdrawn when evidence…
A federal judicial panel on Friday, Nov. 8, agreed to develop a rule to regulate the introduction of artificial intelligence-generated evidence and begin work on a policy to potentially help judges deal with claims that a piece of audio or video evidence is a “deep fake.” Fordham Law Professor Daniel J. Capra, who serves as a reporter to the U.S. Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules, is quoted in a Reuters article discussing the unanimous decision to move forward with developing a rule to address evidence that is the product of machine learning. “It seems like a good idea…