Fordham Law Professor Daniel J. Capra, who serves on the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules, tells Bloomberg Law that he is currently working on two proposals that would address issues about “deepfakes” and the reliability of materials generated by AI tools. The Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules voted Friday to work further on proposals that would address issues about “deepfakes” and the reliability of materials generated by AI tools. US District Judge Jesse Furman, the committee’s chairman, suggested that the panel could work on a rule on deepfakes — videos or images created by AI that can accurately…
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Donald Trump will be the first president to take office while several criminal cases against him are still pending. Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, joins Spectrum News NY1’s “News All Day” to discuss Trump’s legal future. Read “Trump’s legal future after winning the presidential election” and watch the full segment on Spectrum News NY1.
Professor Karen Greenberg spoke with the Institute for Public Accuracy about how the Trump campaign has been using tactics to further election denialism. “The Trump team is using many tactics [to further] election denialism. In Michigan, it looked like some voters had voted more than once. Election deniers are looking for ways to deny the results. Whether it’s about election fraud, or something wrong with the process, or intimidation, these are all attempts––before, on Election Day, and in the aftermath––to say that the results of this election can be denied. The reports from Michigan alerts us to the fact that these…
Joe Miller at the Financial Times reported that “As polls close across the US on Tuesday evening, an army of Republican activists are expected to set into motion a plan they have been working on for months: to legally challenge results that go against Donald Trump at local, state and federal levels.” Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry H. Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, is quoted in this Financial Times article.
James Brudney, Joseph Crowley Chair in Labor and Employment Law at Fordham Law, shares his expert opinion with National Law Journal after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said its Cemex decision aims to strengthen the NLRB’s ability to address unfair labor practices during organizing campaigns and prevent recurrences. James Brudney, a labor law professor at Fordham School of Law, said Cemex’s position faces hurdles. “There’s language in the Supreme Court [Gissel] opinion [that] says, ‘that the cards, ‘though admittedly inferior to the election process, can adequately reflect employee sentiment when that [election] process has been impeded needs no extended…
The Rural Reconciliation Project’s new digest features insights from Nestor M. Davidson, the Albert A. Walsh Professor of Real Estate, Land Use, and Property Law at Fordham Law School, and Alan R. Romero, Carl M. Williams Professor of Law and Social Responsibility and Rural Law Center Director at University of Wyoming College of Law, on how place shapes the law and its application from their respective positions in urban and rural law centers. In Law in Place: Reflections on Rural and Urban Legal Paradigms, Nestor M. Davidson (Urban Law Center, Fordham) and Alan R. Romero (Rural Law Center, University of…
After the Southern District of New York blocked the $8.5 billion merger between Coach-parent Tapestry and Michael Kors owner Capri Holdings, Susan Scafidi, director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, told Business of Fashion that the ruling shrinks the likelihood of the deal’s completion. The blocking championed the Federal Trade Commission’s primary argument that if Tapestry and Capri were to come together, they could raise prices, lower wages, and eliminate competition in the sector. Tapestry has said it will appeal the decision but the ruling significantly shrinks the likelihood of the deal’s completion. “It may be that delay equals death,”…
In this co-authored op-ed for Lawfare, Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma argues that open-weight AI models “aren’t the panacea for AI democratization, innovation, and accountability that their evangelists claim them to be.” In light of the explosive growth of generative AI, which the general public has adopted at a faster rate than personal computers or the Internet, it is natural to worry about who controls this technology. Most of the major industry players—including leading AI labs such as OpenAI (makers of ChatGPT), Anthropic (Claude), and Google (Gemini)—rely on closed models whose details are kept private and whose operation is entirely dependent…
Nestor M. Davidson, the Albert A. Walsh Professor of Real Estate, Land Use, and Property Law at Fordham Law School, praised the actions of both the Consumer Finance Protection Board and the U.S. Department of Justice after a settlement was reached with a Wisconsin-based mortgage company over allegations of redlining in Birmingham, AL. “As a general matter, an argument that says that we can make an individual judgment about any borrower based on where they actually live, or based on their race, or based on anything that is not related to that person’s individual ability to repay and evaluate their…
Susan Scafidi, director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, spoke to Women’s Wear Daily about the likelihood of an American Louis Vuitton-Moët-Hennessy in the wake of the Federal Trade Commission’s request for a preliminary injunction in the Tapestry-Capri merger case. Susan Scafidi, founder and director of Fordham Law School’s Fashion Law Institute, said the first sentence of Judge Jennifer Rochon’s ruling said it all — “Antitrust has come into fashion.” Over an eight-day hearing last month, the FTC argued that if the deal were to go through, Tapestry, with Coach, Kate Spade and Michael Kors, would dominate the “accessible luxury” market and…