In this New York Times article, Bruce Green, director of Fordham Law’s Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, comments on whether Todd Blanche, the president’s former lawyer, should interview the lawyer of Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, about the scandal. Legal ethics experts said that Mr. Blanche was likely not affected by a formal conflict of interest by negotiating with Ms. Maxwell as both a top official of the Justice Department and the former lawyer of someone who, in theory, could be implicated by her statements. Still, they said, his involvement in the talks created a murky…
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Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, explains to Daily Mail why she is surprised Utah is moving forward with the execution of Ralph Leroy Menzies, who is facing a firing squad on Sept. 5, 2025 for a 1988 kidnapping and killing. BLOOD ATONEMENT Utah is one of five states along with Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma and South Carolina that authorize firing squads as a form of execution. About 42 percent of residents there identify as members of the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS), or Mormon. Deborah Denno, a…
Martin S. Flaherty, Leitner Family Professor of Law at Fordham Law and founding co-director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, provides his legal opinion to NBC New York on whether President Donald Trump can take over New York City if Zohran Mamdani wins the election for mayor this fall. View this post on Instagram A post shared by NBC New York (@nbcnewyork)
Fordham Law Professor Thomas Lee comments on President Donald Trump’s nomination of Eric Tung, a former federal prosecutor, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. President Donald Trump has nominated Eric Tung, a former federal prosecutor, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. If confirmed, Tung would be Trump’s eighth appellate nominee who self-identifies as Asian American or Pacific Islander (AAPI), continuing a trend noted by Bloomberg Law of elevated AAPI representation on the federal bench during Trump’s presidency. “There’s actually a large pool of ideologically conservative Asian Americans with the sufficient experience and…
A longtime critic of exchange-traded funds (ETF)’s tax benefits, Fordham Law Professor Jeffrey Colon spoke with Bloomberg Law about how wealthy investors are using a clever ETF trick to legally sidestep U.S. capital gains taxes—and why that raises concerns. To critics, the growth of these conversions is a sign that ETFs’ tax advantages — while perfectly legal — are now being exploited at a scale that’s increasingly incompatible with a system meant to tax investments when they are sold. “At the end of the day, we really will have been able to diversify our portfolios from high-tech stock to foreign stock,…
Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout, author of “Break ’Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom From Big Ag, Big Tech and Big Money,” explains in this New York Times op-ed why she believes cities have the power to bring down food prices and bring life to food deserts. A big feature of Zohran Mamdani’s upset win in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary was his focus on the unfairness of current food prices. He proposed piloting five city-run grocery stores. Voters loved it. Pundits mocked it. The idea was labeled communist, irrelevant, dangerous and silly. But the mockery missed the larger…
Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader predicts to The Associated Press that the tradition of grand jury secrecy might block release of the grand jury transcripts from cases against Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell. Cheryl Bader, a former federal prosecutor and Fordham Law School criminal law professor, said judges who presided over the Epstein and Maxwell cases may take weeks or months to rule. “Especially here where the case involved witnesses or victims of sexual abuse, many of which are underage, the judge is going to be very cautious about what the judge releases,” she said. … Tradition of…
Fordham Law Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández explores the motivations and insights behind her timely and thought-provoking work, Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality, in this Q&A with Rolling Out. According to the author, Tanya Katerí Hernández, the concept of racial innocence refers to the idea that Latinos are somehow “exempt” from racism — an assumption she argues is dangerously inaccurate. As the second-largest ethnic group in the United States, Afro-Latinos are vital in any effort to dismantle systemic racism. … What was your purpose in writing Racial Innocence? As an Afro-Latina, I’ve had the unfortunate “privilege” to be…
Susan Scafidi, founder and director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, spoke with Women’s Wear Daily about what the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s indictment against Christine Hunsicker, founder and former CEO of fashion tech company CaaStle, means for the fashion industry. CaaStle filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on June 20 and is expected to be liquidated. For Hunsicker, who was once a judge on a “Project Runway” spin-off, featured on Crain’s New York Business “40 Under 40” list and selected as one of Inc.’s “Most Impressive Women Entrepreneurs,” it’s been a hard fall and one that is still reverberating through fashion —…
Raise the Bar, the small-to-mid-size law firm’s guide to marketing, growth and client interactions, highlighted Fordham Law’s Bite-Sized Business Law Podcast—hosted by Amy Martella ’07, executive director of Fordham Law School’s Corporate Law Center—stating “this ‘bite-sized’ podcast has a lot of flavor.” This “bite-sized” podcast has a lot of flavor Just like law firms, many law schools are launching podcasts to aid their marketing efforts. But few are doing so as well as the Fordham University School of Law. The Bite-Sized Business Law podcast from its Corporate Law Center is genuinely interesting, thanks to the breadth of topics it covers and host/professor/executive…