After several right-wing political influencers called into question Vice President Kamala Harris’s eligibility for office, despite her serving as vice president for three and a half years, Fordham Law Professor Thomas Lee spoke with The Dispatch Fact Check about her eligibility for office from the perspective of originalism. In a 2018 survey article on the original meaning of the phrase, Fordham law professor Thomas Lee determined that “natural born citizen” applied to almost any individual born in the U.S. regardless of parentage. “I believe that the constitutional natural born citizen requirement to be President, as a matter of original public meanings, meant…
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Susan Scafidi, director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, predicts in a Bloomberg Law article that Nike’s lawsuit against a sneaker artist known as “The Shoe Surgeon,” if decided in Nike’s favor, will cause a shift in the customization market. But Nike has now accused Dominic Ciambrone’s growing business of an illegal scheme fraught with counterfeits and unauthorized collaborations with brands like Jack Daniel’s, eBay Inc., and Ruffles. The iconic brand sued him on July 15 seeking $60 million for trademark infringement and counterfeiting. … “This is about a pair of cultural movements—the movement of customization, but also the resurgence of logo mania…
Following New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez’s bribery conviction on July 16, Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader spoke to The New York Times about how a landmark 2016 Supreme Court decision has narrowed the definition of political corruption, including what is considered “official acts.” Cheryl Bader, a law professor at Fordham University, said the McDonnell ruling noted that its more limited interpretation of “official act” left “ample room” for prosecutors to pursue corruption. “There’s a lot of areas within the law where there’s shades of gray,” Professor Bader said. “But at some point, we want to think about how to draw…
Amy Martella ’07, executive director of Fordham Law School’s Corporate Law Center, shares with Pod Bible Magazine her journey from a podcast listener to a host, her motivations behind creating a business law podcast (“Bite-Sized Business Law”), and the future business law trends that will shape the corporate world. What motivated you to start a podcast focused on business law? As the Executive Director of the Corporate Law Center at Fordham Law School, I’m constantly convening events, lectures, roundtables, conferences, and debates to study and discuss business and financial law. Our students, faculty, and alumni really like the work we…
As the Federal Trade Commission prepares to launch a broad study on the burgeoning practice of charging different people different prices for the same thing based on their individual circumstances, Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout was quoted in a POLITICO article, saying this “surveillance pricing” practice and price-gouging are, indeed, related. “Surveillance pricing and price-gouging are related,” said Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor who also worked on consumer pricing issues at the New York Attorney General’s office. “It’s a really substantial revolution in pricing with all sorts of implications,” Teachout said. It’s not just a matter of fairness, she…
Susan Scafidi, director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, spoke to Women’s Wear Daily about the potential $2.65 billion merger of Saks and Neiman Marcus and what it would mean for the luxury retail market as Federal Trade Commission regulators sharpen their focus on corporate dealmaking and fashion. The combination of Saks and Neiman’s — particularly since it’s being funded in part by Amazon and Salesforce — promises to alter what’s left of the world of department store retailing. “Department stores are a 19th-century phenomenon struggling to survive in the 21st,” said Susan Scafidi, founder and director of the Fashion…
Elizabeth “Beth” Acevedo has been chosen as the new assistant dean of the Career Planning Center at Fordham Law School. Her first day will be Aug. 5. Most recently, she was the assistant dean for the Center for Career Development at Rutgers Law School in Newark. There, she oversaw Rutgers Law’s career service initiatives. “I am delighted to welcome Beth Acevedo to Fordham Law School,” said Dean Joseph Landau. “Her extensive experience in career planning, deep compassion for students, and unwavering enthusiasm for a vast range of legal careers means that our students will be in exceptionally good hands as…
Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader was quoted in an article by the Associated Press following U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, on the grounds that the appointment of and funding for special counsel Jack Smith were unconstitutional. Special counsel Jack Smith’s appeal of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s order is expected to tee up a court fight that might reach the U.S. Supreme Court and could result in the reinstatement of the indictment and even conceivably the reassignment of the case to a different judge. …. It is unclear if…
On ABC News, Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, discusses U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissing the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, on the grounds that the appointment of and funding for special counsel Jack Smith were unconstitutional. Watch the full interview segment on ABC News.
More than 130 rising second- and third-year Fordham Law students are engaging in rewarding and meaningful full-time public service work this summer at non-profit organizations and government agencies across the country. Alexa Jean-Baptiste ’25 is spending the summer months gaining hands-on experience in public service work under the Susheel Kirpalani LAW ’94 Public Interest Fellowship Fund. Thanks to Kirpalani’s generosity, she is working at Advocates for Children of New York, whose mission is to ensure a high-quality education for New York students facing barriers to academic success. Established in 2017 by Kirpalani, founder and chair of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &…