On Sept. 3, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided with industry groups, ruling that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) improperly classified industrial boilers under more stringent pollution standards. Fordham Law Professor Aaron Saiger was quoted in a National Catholic Reporter article discussing how the end of Chevron has environmental lawyers and Catholic advocates concerned that now non-expert judges will make crucial decisions about regulations and that weakened federal regulatory powers could have a significant human as well as environmental impact. Yet Aaron Saiger, a law professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York,…
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Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, appeared on Australian Broadcasting Corporation News to discuss the apparent second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his golf club in Florida—just nine weeks after the Republican presidential nominee survived another attempt on his life. Greenberg explains, among other things, how the type of firearm the suspected gunman was planning to use “will form an important part of the investigation into the incident.” Watch the full interview segment on Australian Broadcasting Corporation News.
Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act—better known as the 1994 Crime Bill—Fordham Law Professor John Pfaff joins journalist and Vera Institute of Justice podcast host Josie Duffy Rice on “The 30 Year Project” to look at the legislation’s impact and examine where mass incarceration in America is today. Listen to Episode 1, “Power,” in which Pfaff examines the bill and its impact on mass incarceration. Listen to Episode 2, “People,” in which Pfaff notes the public and media’s perception of people who have been convicted of crimes due in part to the…
In the first installment of Unscripted Direct Trial Advocacy Podcast’s new debate series, “Vexatious Litigants,” Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center Director Adam Shlahet ’02 and Cumberland’s Judge Jim Roberts debate whether judges should be given the fact pattern before competitions. Listen to the full segment, “Vexatious Litigants,” on Unscripted Direct’s 94th episode, “Stetson Legend Bobbi Flowers (and a spicy new debate segment!)” (air date September 12, 2024).
This summer, Fordham Law students Camille Campbell ’25 and Matthew Winter ’25 visited an upstate New York maximum security prison to meet with a client who was convicted of murder. They, along with Kevin Jones ’25, have been fighting on the client’s behalf for clemency and commutation since early March 2024, spending their entire summer as research assistants to advocate for him. Derrick Brown has been incarcerated for the last 31 years, since the age of 17, and is serving a 35-years-to-life sentence. He has been a client of the Law School’s Criminal Defense Clinic since 2018 and has worked…
Last month, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris announced that, if elected, she would advance the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries. In this op-ed featured in the Washington Monthly, Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout—who worked on consumer pricing issues at the New York Attorney General’s office—writes that Harris’s plan to control inflation is rooted in mainstream American legal tradition and sorely needed. Harris’s actual plan has nothing to do with price controls. Instead, it would clearly tap an entirely different set of government powers that states, including ruby red ones like Alabama and Kentucky, have exercised robustly and with…
Donald Trump’s proposal to lower the corporate tax rate to 15% from 21% for companies that make their products in the U.S. and to expand tariffs on foreign-made goods—which would revive a type of perk that Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act eliminated—has elicited immediate questions from economists and businesses. Professor Rebecca Kysar, who served as counselor to the assistant secretary of tax policy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 2021 to 2022, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article discussing the administrative burdens and gamesmanship that could potentially occur. The old provision led to disputes over what, exactly,…
Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma describes for Tech Policy Press what she and Steven Kelts, a lecturer in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, learned by conducting a first-of-its-kind interactive simulation intended to identify the challenges of developing responsible artificial intelligence products and services and help design organizations that can overcome them. They argue, among other things, that simulations are a valuable tool to tease out the complexities of responsible AI development. Most people want AI to be built and used responsibly. We even have a sense (however vague) of what it means to build AI responsibly. But, AI is built in complex…
The Center for Judicial Events & Clerkships (CJEC) has named its 2024–2025 Peer Clerkship Council (PCC), a leadership cohort of six members of the J.D. Class of 2025 who worked closely with the Center in pursuing and securing their post-graduate clerkships with federal and state court judges. “Each year the members of the PCC help to foster a clerkships-oriented culture at the law school,” said Assistant Dean Suzanne M. Endrizzi ’96. “It was a pleasure working with each of these students as they went through their own process, first deciding whether a clerkship was the right fit and then putting…
Multiple people have applied to trademark the viral phrase “very demure, very mindful” since it was uttered by Chicago-based content creator Jools Lebron in a TikTok video posted on Aug. 5. Susan Scafidi, director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, was quoted in a Business of Fashion article discussing who gets to capitalize on cultural moments including viral internet content. The frenzy reached its peak on Aug. 17, according to Google Trends, and as TikTok trends often do, has since died down from that initial hype. But that hasn’t stopped at least two people from filing applications to trademark various…