New York Mayor Eric Adams was indicted on five federal corruption charges in September 2024. As Adams faces growing pressure to step down, Fordham Law Professor Ian Weinstein joins WFUV (90.7 FM, wfuv.org) to break down the charge that alleges Adams engaged in a quid-pro-quo bribery arrangement with foreign nationals. Listen to the complete Oct. 24, 2024 episode, “Fordham Law Professor Breaks Down Adams Corruption Charges.”
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Straight Arrow News published a Q&A with Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry H. Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, about the legality of Elon Musk’s $1 million offer to new registered, republican voters in swing states. Ray Bogan: In general, do you think that’s legal? Jerry Goldfeder: No, there are federal statutes that deal with lotteries. They are not permitted. But more specifically, there are federal statutes and Department of Justice handbooks that say that you can’t pay somebody to vote and you can’t pay somebody to register. So here we have a situation where the…
A recent wave of massive cyberattacks and global disruptions has shined a spotlight on the world’s vulnerability to widely distributed but sometimes poorly written code. Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma shares expert insights with The Record from Recorded Future News on the situation. The software industry’s repeated failures have exasperated experts who see little urgency to address the roots of the problem. But bringing companies to heel will be extremely difficult. “We have literally protected software from almost all forms of liability, comprehensively, since the inception of the industry decades ago,” said Chinmayi Sharma, an associate professor at Fordham School of…
Susan Scafidi, director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, spoke to Women’s Wear Daily about how Vice President Kamala Harris’s and former President Donald Trump’s styles are very much “front and center for fashion” this election season as well as how the fashion and retail industry will face a very different policy landscape under a President Trump or a President Harris. “There’s no rule requiring U.S. presidents or their families to buy American, but when they do, their style choices boost brand awareness,” said Susan Scafidi, founder and director of Fordham Law School’s Fashion Law Institute. “Emerging designers’ hopes are likely pinned on a…
Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry H. Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, published an op-ed in Just Security on how the next Congress can fix gaps in the electoral system for dealing with hurricanes, acts of terrorism, and other potential disruptions of the vote. One take-away from watching Mother Nature cause havoc in the southeastern United States as voters began casting ballots is the glaring absence of a uniform response to handle even such limited election interruption. The affected states responded differently, with no federal guidelines. I have written about this several times over the years, and I continue to…
An upcoming article co-authored by Bennett Capers, associate dean for research, was included in the “What We’re Reading This Week” round-up compiled by University of Pennsylvania School of Law’s The Regulatory Review. “Reconstruction and the Unfulfilled Promise of Antitrust” will be published in Minnesota Law Review, as a follow-up to Caper’s co-authored 2023 article, “Race-ing Antitrust.” In a forthcoming article in the Minnesota Law Review, Bennett Capers, Associate Dean for Research and Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, and Gregory Day, associate professor at the University of Georgia, explored how state monopoly power perpetuates economic inequality, especially along racial lines. Capers and Day argued that states…
The work of Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma, who has been writing about creating a malpractice regime for engineers who develop artificial intelligence (AI), was referenced at length by Sue Halpern in this op-ed on the dark arts of AI, featured in The New York Review of Books. A functional government, committed to safeguarding its citizens, might be keen to create a regulatory agency or pass comprehensive legislation, but we in the United States do not have such a government. In light of congressional dithering, regulatory capture, and a politicized judiciary, pundits and scholars have proposed other ways to ensure…
Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout joined Ed Zitron in the iHeartRadio studios in New York City on the Better Offline Podcast to talk about corruption in business and economics, the ways in which the power of corporations can be curbed, and why she believes there’s renewed hope for a better world. Teachout is the author of “Break ‘Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money.” Listen to the complete Oct. 16, 2024 episode, “Zephyr Teachout On Corruption.”
As Texas prepares to put a man to death in what would be the United States’s first execution tied to the diagnosis of “shaken baby syndrome,” Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno—a death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center—explains to The Washington Post why the courts are unlikely to grant a post-conviction appeal. In theory, post-conviction appeals can serve as a fail-safe that allows the court system to reckon with past errors and avoid wrongful execution. In practice, the courts are rarely so nimble — or willing, according to death-penalty researcher and Fordham law professor Deborah…
Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, previously spoke with Fox News about Idaho’s two legal methods of execution, lethal injection and firing squad. After Idaho reinstated the firing squad last year, one of the nation’s leading experts on capital punishment, Fordham Law School Professor Deborah Denno, told Fox News Digital the method is far more humane than lethal injections, which have been badly botched in recent years. “The firing squad is the quickest, surest and most error-free and the only technique for which we have skilled and trained professionals,” she…