A midlevel New York appeals court will decide whether challenges to canvassed ballots in close political races should continue to be heard by state judges in civil courts. Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry H. Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, spoke with the New York Law Journal ahead of the Aug. 15 arguments. Jerry H. Goldfeder, senior counsel at Cozen O’Connor, and director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, commented “When the law presumes that a voter’s ballot should be counted, that’s a statute that ought to be upheld.” Read “NY Appeals Court to…
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More than 100 rising second- and third-year Fordham Law students are wrapping up their summer associate programs, judicial internships, and fellowships throughout the country and around the world. Through their experiences, they have been forging new connections, honing their lawyering skills, and immersing themselves in the practice of law while pursuing their passions. Donyea James ’26 spent the summer gaining hands-on experience protecting the legal rights of survivors of domestic violence as a fellow at Sanctuary for Families, a leading service provider and advocate in New York for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking, and related forms of gender violence.…
As concerns increase over bankruptcy system fairness, Fordham Law Professor Susan Block-Lieb, a bankruptcy expert and the Cooper Family Chair of Urban Legal Studies, spoke with Bloomberg Law about “good forum shopping and bad forum shopping.” Indeed, some analysts have described both “good forum shopping and bad forum shopping,” noted Susan Block-Lieb, a Fordham Law professor who teaches bankruptcy courses. Companies will surely want their complex cases heard by courts that frequently handle such matters, she said. “Why is it a bad thing to allow the litigants the discretion to choose the most experienced courts?” Block-Lieb asked. But questions surface when…
Ahead of National Hispanic American Heritage Month, Fordham Law Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández participated in a Q&A with El País English about the new Spanish translation of her book, Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality, originally published in English in 2022 by Beacon Press. She says she hopes Inocencia racial: Desenmascarando la antinegritud de los latinos y la lucha por la igualdad—now available in paperback, e-book, and audiobook—will help Latinx families confronting bias. But for many Latinos, whose skin is lighter, their hair straighter, their noses and lips smaller, racism is a subject that has always…
In the aftermath of the South Carolina Supreme Court ruling on July 31 that the death penalty is legal—including firing squad, lethal injection, and electric chair—Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, spoke to The Post and Courier about how several published accounts of executions pre-1976—specifically botched electrocutions—were gruesome. “It’s been problematic from the very first execution,” said Dr. Deborah Denno, an expert on capital punishment methods at the Fordham University School of Law. “We just have page after page of all the problems associated with electrocution, all the botches…
In this op-ed featured in The New York Review of Books, Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout explains why embracing Lina Khan as chair of the Federal Trade Commission would send a clear signal of economic leadership from Vice President Kamala Harris. She adds that, as president, Harris could take further steps toward a fair and free economy—or roll back her predecessor’s antitrust gains. By my lights, the strongest test of Harris’s priorities will be whether she retains Khan as the chair of the FTC. Wall Street loathes Khan. Two billionaire donors to Harris—Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn, and IAC chairman…
Professor Bennett Capers, director of Fordham Law School’s Center on Race, Law and Justice, was quoted in a Washington Post article discussing the Trump campaign’s usage of misleading posts and a racist trope to attack Vice President Kamala Harris on crime. Bennett Capers, a law professor at Fordham University who studies race and policing, described the Trump campaign’s tactic as: “Put up a photo of a scary Black man and it will rally your fearful base.” He added: “You have not just the Black defendant but you have him next to the Black woman, painting both with the same brush, even…
In the wake of Elon Musk posting on X (formerly Twitter) a digitally altered “deepfake” video, insidiously manipulating a campaign ad for Vice President Kamala Harris, Professor Catherine Powell, Eunice Hunton Carter Distinguished Research Scholar at Fordham Law, wrote a post for the Council on Foreign Relations’s Net Politics blog, examining the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes in the 2024 presidential race. This blog post builds on Powell’s earlier post on AI entering the political arena. Powell is an adjunct senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Beyond the derogatory nature of…
Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, appeared on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show to discuss the new book she co-edited, Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue (NYU Press, 2024), in which experts weigh in on the risks to national security posed by election insecurity. She and co-author Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, CNN political analyst, and NPR contributor, argue that when the integrity of elections is threatened, so too is national security. Listen to the full segment “Election Integrity and National Security”…
Students in Fordham Law School’s Rule of Law Clinic had an important hand in drafting legislation introduced in the New York State Senate to reform the state’s gubernatorial succession policies. The legislation is the latest progress in the Clinic’s work over three semesters to develop and advocate for succession reforms. Clinic students have written four reports, published op-eds, met with lawmakers and legislative aides, interviewed experts, and coordinated with stakeholders. Dean Emeritus John D. Feerick ’61 and Senior Fellow John Rogan ’14 teach the Rule of Law Clinic. Two years after graduating from Fordham Law, Feerick played a central role…