Fordham Law is pleased to announce that Cecilia Caldeira has been appointed assistant dean for international and non-J.D. programs. Caldeira, who arrives with deep experience in program building at law schools, will lead Fordham Law’s efforts to grow its educational offerings and expand its reach across the globe. “I am looking forward to being a part of the Fordham Law community and hope to help shape and grow all graduate and non-J.D. offerings,” Caldeira said. Caldeira comes to Fordham Law from Brooklyn Law School, where she served as director of international programs. She also taught Fundamentals of American Law and…
Author: Erin DeGregorio
Professor Deborah Denno was quoted in The Atlantic, in an article discussing Alabama’s execution practices, where she shared her insight on the execution of Joe Nathan James Jr. Deborah Denno, a law professor and the founding director of the Neuroscience and Law Center at Fordham Law School, emphasized to me that James’s case is only the latest in a long sequence of botched executions that challenge the constitutionality of lethal injection on Eighth Amendment grounds. “From the very first lethal injection execution to the last—that of Joe Nathan James—the method is predictably disastrous, all the more so in the last dozen years given…
On August 15, the Legal English Institute (LEI) at Fordham Law School welcomed 22 new participants. The participants are practicing lawyers and law students from 11 countries around the world: Albania, Algeria, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, France, Ghana, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey. For the first time since spring 2020, the program will take place fully in person at the Law School’s campus in New York City. “We are thrilled to welcome such a diverse and impressive roster of students for our first in-person cohort since the pandemic began,” said Bernard Daraz, associate director of international and non-J.D. programs and a…
U.S. Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin ’78, Lawrence W. Pierce Distinguished Jurist in Residence, and Thomas Lee, Leitner Family Professor of International Law, led a lively teaching workshop on July 20, focusing on the relationship between Asian Americans and the law. Topics of conversation and opportunities for information sharing included teaching objectives and desired learning outcomes, how to use history to teach and inform analysis of current events, and methods and materials for the classroom. “We know that we have a lot to learn from all of you, and we want to have conversation all day long as we go…
Fordham Law School announced today that Ornela Rudovic has been appointed as director of alumni relations. In her new role, Rudovic will be responsible for leading the Law School’s alumni relations team, where she will strengthen the school’s expansive global alumni network, provide effective strategies and management, and create a pipeline to help the next generation of alumni and legal professionals. She will be working closely with the Fordham Law Alumni Association board, Recent Graduate Committee, Dean’s Planning Committee, and the Law School’s various student groups, to re-envision events and programming as well as find new ways to connect and…
Fordham Law School will begin its second annual Academy for the Advancement of Women in Law: RISE—Resilient, Inspired, Strategic, Empowered on Friday, October 7. This online executive education program will meet Friday mornings via Zoom, 9:00 – 10:15 am (New York time), through November 11. Continuing Legal Education Credits for New York and New Jersey will be available. Bringing together female and male attorneys and other thought leaders in the area of women’s empowerment, participants and speakers will share ideas and best practices for creating more inclusive environments that enable the advancement of women lawyers globally. The Academy for the…
Stein Scholar Shivani Parikh ’24 was selected to participate in the first ever Summer Academy on Law, Organizing, and Power Building, hosted by The Action Lab (TAL), the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project, and the Initiative for Community Power. This month, Parikh and a small cohort of rising second- and third-year law students from the New York City area will be introduced to critical LPE and organizing frameworks, with a focus on housing justice and decarceration. According to the academy’s website, programming will include: an overview of the law’s role in constituting the political economy of neoliberalism and a…
President Joe Biden announced on July 29 the nominations of eight new federal judicial nominees and his intent to nominate a ninth federal judicial nominee, including Justice Maria Araújo Kahn ’89 of the Connecticut Supreme Court for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Justice Kahn has served as an associate justice on the Connecticut Supreme Court—the state’s highest court—since November 2017. She previously served as a judge on the Connecticut Appellate Court for one term in 2017, as a judge of the Superior Court for 11 years, and as an assistant U.S. attorney in New Haven for…
A Fordham Law School Clinic is calling for improvements to New York’s procedures for gubernatorial succession and inability. There have been several unexpected turnovers in the state’s highest executive offices in recent years, but the Rule of Law Clinic says in a newly released report that “New York is unprepared to deal with a panoply of issues relating to gubernatorial succession.” The clinic’s report outlines reform proposals in four areas: Procedures for declaring the governor unable to discharge the office’s powers and duties; Removal of the state constitution’s provision that transfers power to the lieutenant governor whenever the governor leaves…
Observed annually in July and formally known as Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Month, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Mental Health Month was established in 2008 to enhance public awareness of mental illness, especially within minority communities. Today, the month highlights the unique mental health challenges and needs of historically disenfranchised or oppressed racial and ethnic groups in the United States, as stated by the American Counseling Association. Madeline Maldonado, LCSW-R is a designated after-hours counselor for Fordham Law and is available for mental health support for the student body, with a focus on students from…