As gig workers’ pay gets slashed by algorithms, experts warn that A.I.-driven wage systems mean that no one’s paycheck is safe. Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout warns in a recent article for Slate that specific legislation curbing algorithmic wage discrimination “could eventually be deemed unfair trade practices under state or federal law.” Algorithms can be employed to sniff out desperation for income based on the extremes people are willing to take on the job, such as high trip acceptance rates among Uber drivers. With this hoard of granular information, A.I. can calculate the lowest possible pay that workers across sectors…
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Alabama is set to tie its record for the most executions in a single year with an upcoming lethal injection on Oct. 17. Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, appeared on WBRC FOX6 News in Birmingham, Alabama, to express concern over the state’s rising number of executions, noting that Alabama did not carry out as many death sentences after implementing the death penalty in 1976. The state’s growing execution numbers are drawing attention, with legal experts noting that Alabama is increasingly setting itself apart from other states. Fordham…
Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout joined Nick Hanauer, “Pitchfork Economics” podcast host and founder of Civic Ventures, and David Goldstein, senior fellow at Civic Ventures, to discuss the urgent need for federal action on corporate price-gouging as well as the need for stronger antitrust enforcement, decreased market concentration, and more regulations aimed at protecting consumers in times of crisis. Listen to the complete Oct. 8, 2024 episode, “Sometimes You Just Have to Ignore the Economists (with Zephyr Teachout).” Today, Nick & Goldy discuss the urgent need for federal action on corporate price-gouging with law professor @ZephyrTeachout. She highlights the need for…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has steadfastly said he won’t resign amid his federal indictment, but legal experts say that there is the possibility that he could be forced out of office. If so—and if Adams decides to fight it—the law would require a special, separate trial-like process before removal. Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry H. Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, published an op-ed in the New York Law Journal article, breaking down the law and the Roosevelt-Walker precedent. Read “The Governor and the Mayor: A Modern Seabury Hearing?” in New York Law…
Since formally securing the Democratic presidential nomination in August 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris has centered her anti-inflation agenda on combating price gouging—announcing that, if elected, she would advance the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries. Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout shared her expert opinion with The Washington Times on why a national ban of price gouging is necessary. Zephyr Teachout, who teaches classes on the intersection of corporate and political power at Fordham University School of Law, said a national ban on price gouging is necessary to put businesses on notice that there will be penalties…
Judge Mark Pittman sits on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, which has come under scrutiny as a destination for conservative litigants hoping to “forum-shop,” or the practice of filing in certain courts in hopes of getting—or to be guaranteed—a certain judge, according to Bloomberg Law. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Pamela Bookman spoke with the publication about how the Northern District has “become a magnet for ‘big-ticket cases.'” As a result, the Northern District has become a magnet for “big-ticket cases” challenging national policies, Fordham Law School professor Pamela Bookman said. For the judges…
Though Keith Roberts was released from prison in 1994, he has been fighting since then to clear his name for a crime he did not commit. With help from Fordham Law Adjunct Prof. Leonard Noisette and students from the Criminal Defense Clinic, Roberts was exonerated on Oct. 3 by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Matthew D’Emic. Read 1010 WINS Radio, “Brooklyn DA to vacate 1986 murder conviction of man who pleaded guilty to avoid return to prison after successful appeal” Read Brooklyn Daily Eagle, “Brooklyn man becomes 40th exoneration by DA’s office after decades-old murder conviction unravels” Read Brooklyn Paper, “East…
It’s the second time in the past month that a local or state official in New York has been accused of accepting payoffs from and taking action on behalf of a foreign government. In early September, federal prosecutors accused Linda Sun, then an aide to New York Governor Kathy Hochul, of accepting substantial economic and other benefits from China and the Chinese Communist Party, along with her husband. In late September, Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James E. Dennehy, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the…
Professor Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, provides tips on how voters can stay aware of—and minimally influenced by—disinformation before they head to the polls on Nov. 5. For Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, threats to democracy from disinformation are vast and real, but voters and election officials have never been more vigilant. “Look, we know we’re being spun,” says Greenberg, co-editor of Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue. “The question is, can we step back for a moment and say, ‘I…
Joe Miller at the Financial Times reported that “federal prosecutors [are taking] aim at what they allege are attempts to curry influence in the halls of American power.” Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout is quoted in this Financial Times article.