Professor Abner S. Greene was quoted in an article by The Times of Israel discussing the separation of church and state as nearly 1,600 bills nationwide seek to insert religion into public school. Challenges to many of today’s bills seeking to re-inject religion into schools, including the chaplain bill, are expected. And as they wend their way through the legal system, the courts will need to decide whether any of these laws are tantamount to coercion, said Prof. Abner S. Greene, Leonard F. Manning Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. “Let’s say a chaplain in a public school —…
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On June 8, nearly two dozen legal scholars gathered at Fordham Law School for the annual Criminal Justice Ethics Schmooze in which they presented and discussed papers on the professional conduct and regulation of prosecutors, defense lawyers, and their offices. Organized and hosted this year by the Law School’s Stein Center for Law and Ethics, the informal, seminar-style forum encourages scholarship on criminal prosecution and criminal defense by supporting and incubating writing at the early stage. The invitation-only event, inaugurated at Fordham Law in 2014, is organized by several New York-area law school faculty with an academic interest in the…
Professor Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, was quoted in a National Law Journal article discussing the decision made by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras of the District of Columbia to send a disciplinary proceeding against one of former President Donald Trump’s top lawyers back to D.C. Superior Court. Fordham Law legal ethics professor Bruce Green was also not surprised by the venue dispute’s outcome. Contreras cited D.C. Court of Appeals precedent, which states that sanctions not only punish the attorney but “protect the public and the courts, safeguard the integrity of the profession,…
A Message from Dean Matthew Diller June 7, 2023 Dear Fordham Law Community, Congratulations on finishing a busy school year. Thank you for all your tremendous work. It was a pleasure to collaborate with you on so many projects and to be able to support the great energy and vitality of our community. Looking to the future, I wanted to inform you of an important development. I have decided that this next school year will be my last as dean, and I will step down a year from now, on June 30, 2024. At that time, I will be returning…
The Peggy Browning Fund has awarded fellowships to Ben McDonald ’25 and Anushka Sarkar ’25. The application process is highly competitive, and the award is a tribute to their outstanding qualifications. With more than 550 applicants competing for the honor this year, the Peggy Browning Fund accepted over 105 law students into its nationwide fellowship program—the largest cohort in its history. These fellows, according to the Fund, are distinguished students who have not only excelled in law school but who have also demonstrated their commitment to workers’ rights through their previous educational, organizing, work, volunteer, and personal experiences. The mission…
New reports released by Fordham Law School’s Rule of Law Clinic outline reforms to protect the fairness and integrity of elections. The respective topics of the three reports are: responding to emergencies that disrupt presidential elections, preventing third-party candidates from unduly impacting presidential elections, and addressing representation and participation of individuals convicted of crimes. The Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Forum published the reports this month. Students in the Rule of Law Clinic—including eight recent graduates—authored the reports. As part of their research, they met with over a dozen experts, including scholars, policy advocates, former government officials, and former…
Thousands of guests, family members, and loved ones joined Fordham Law School’s graduating Class of 2023 for the Law School’s 116th Diploma Ceremony. Held May 22 at Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus, the entire Law School community gathered at the ceremony to celebrate the achievements of the graduates. Guests included this year’s distinguished speaker Hon. Jeh C. Johnson, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security; U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Fordham University President Tania Tetlow. Of the 630 students who graduated at the ceremony, 413 received J.D. degrees, 102 received M.S.L. degrees, 112 received LL.M. degrees, and three received S.J.D. degrees.…
Earlier this month, the student leaders of Fordham Law’s three highly-successful competition teams, Bianca Bernardi ’23, Millicent Kastenbaum ’23, and Sofia La Bella ’23, wrapped up their final year of law school. Bernardi served as chairperson of Fordham Dispute Resolution Society, Kastenbaum as editor-in-chief of Moot Court, and La Bella as editor-in-chief of Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy for the 2022-2023 academic year. All three women played instrumental roles in reviving their teams’ in-person programming this season after two-and-a-half years of remote competitions, and led their respective groups to many successes. We asked them about their experiences as leaders this year,…
In celebration of Earth Day, Fordham Law’s Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work (IRLLW) invited a group of scholars to discuss the right to a healthy environment through a human rights framework. The insightful conversation—the sixth in the institute’s “New Frontiers of Human Rights” seminar series—was presented April 24 in partnership with the Center for Research in Politics and Human Rights at Sophia University in Florence, Italy, and the Observatorio de Derechos Humanos at Universidad de Valladolid in Spain. “Earth Day is an opportunity for us to not only reflect on our impact on the environment, but to also…
Fordham Law School will celebrate the accomplishments of the Class of 2023 at its 116th diploma ceremony this Monday, May 22. This month, we have been highlighting outstanding members of the graduating class previously featured as part of Fordham Law’s #futurefordhamlawyers series. Below, read the stories of other #futurefordhamlawyers who will soon receive their diplomas at Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus in the Bronx. Follow @fordhamlawnyc for more #futurefordhamlawyers stories. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Fordham Law (@fordhamlawnyc) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Fordham Law (@fordhamlawnyc) View this…