Vice President Kamala Harris’s proposed federal ban on price gouging might irritate academics, but it makes sense to everyone else. In this op-ed featured in The Atlantic, Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout—who worked on consumer pricing issues at the New York Attorney General’s office—makes the case for ignoring the economists. Last week, the economics commentariat and much of the mainstream media erupted with contempt toward Kamala Harris’s proposed federal price-gouging law. Op-eds, social-media posts, and straight news reports mocked Harris for economically illiterate pandering and warned of Soviet-style “price controls” that would lead to shortages and runaway inflation. The strange…
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Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout, who worked on consumer pricing issues at the New York Attorney General’s office, told NBC News that Vice President Kamala Harris’s call for a federal ban on food price gouging would help bridge gaps in the patchwork of state measures. In March 2020, Trump himself issued an executive order to head off corporate price gouging and the hoarding of “necessary health and medical resources,” like personal protective equipment and sanitizing products. That move, under the Defense Production Act, ordered the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services to police any pandemic-related corporate malfeasance, including stockpiling “unnecessary quantities…
Fordham Law student Dionis Jahjaga ’26 was not sure what to expect when he saw 20 pairs of eyes staring at him while he stood at the front of a classroom with a lesson plan in hand. Little did he know the moment marked the start of a fulfilling summer sharing his legal knowledge with high school students interested in the law and legal profession. Jahjaga and two other Fordham Law students served as legal teaching fellows at the Summer Law Institute, a rigorous five-week program that introduces rising ninth graders to the fundamentals of criminal law. The institute is…
As America prepares for the upcoming national presidential election, Fordham Law Dean Joseph Landau advises people to show empathy to others, adding that it plays a huge part in being an effective critical thinker, in this Forbes article about evaluating election choices. According to Joseph Landau, the Dean of Fordham University School of Law, empathy plays a huge part in being an effective critical thinker. “Understanding where others are coming from, and acknowledging their problems, are crucial steps to forming our own opinions about an issue, especially if we are trying to be part of the solution to those problems,” Landau…
As America heads into a presidential election this fall, a Fordham Law professor has published a book that looks at ways to bolster the integrity of the electoral process. “In an era of global anti-democratic movements, the sanctity of democratic electoral processes has become a major national security concern, and the need to protect elections from foreign interference, disinformation, voter intimidation, and the danger of election results being overturned, are now front and center,” said Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. “How did we get here? And more importantly, how will this…
Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry H. Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, was quoted in a New York Law Journal article discussing a New York trial court judge’s decision that ordered the state Board of Elections not to include Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the statewide ballot. Election lawyers said it was foreseeable, given the circumstances, that a New York trial court judge would order the state Board of Elections to not include independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his running mate Nicole Shanahan on the Nov. 5 statewide ballot. “The decision is unsurprising,”…
McGill University Professor Adelle Blackett—who spearheaded critical pedagogical initiatives at the Canadian institution, including the development of a critical race theory course and teaching Slavery and the Law as a specialized topic course—will be lending her expertise to Fordham Law School. At Fordham, Blackett will teach Slavery and the Law: Comparative and International Perspectives in her role as the William Hughes Mulligan Distinguished Visiting Professor during the fall 2024 semester. Blackett, law professor and the Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law at McGill University, is a widely-published expert on topics such as trade and labor standards and is the…
In the wake of another report Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose luxury travel expenses and other forms of gifts from prominent GOP donor Harlan Crow, Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics at Fordham Law, spoke with Newsweek about the likelihood of Attorney General Merrick Garland appointing a special counsel to investigate Justice Thomas. Legal experts previously told Newsweek that it was unlikely that Garland would agree to open an investigation into the Supreme Court justice, even though Fordham Law School professor Bruce Green said that the Democrats “provide a strong case on the facts for opening…
On the evening of August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon addressed the nation and announced his intention to resign following the Watergate scandal. Fordham Law Dean Emeritus John D. Feerick ’61 and Senior Fellow John Rogan ’14, who teach the Rule of Law Clinic, published an op-ed in The Hill during the week of the 50th anniversary, arguing that Nixon’s resignation might not have happened—at least not when it did—without the U.S. Constitution’s 25th Amendment and its vice presidential replacement procedure. Two years after graduating from Fordham Law, Feerick played a central role in framing the 25th Amendment, which deals with…
After graduating from Fordham Law in 1930, Walter O’Malley worked his way up from leading the legal department of the “emerging powerhouse” Brooklyn Dodgers to eventually becoming its owner. O’Malley was the Dodgers’ vice president and secretary when the team signed Jackie Robinson, the first Black player in major league baseball, and is most famous for relocating the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles as president. Now, O’Malley’s impressive collection of historic documents and photographs are available to scholars, researchers, and authors at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum located in Cooperstown, New York. The collection—70 boxes in…