On May 20, the Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer’s Work (IRLLW) at Fordham Law held its fourth and final expert panel discussion in its yearlong “New Frontiers of Human Rights” seminar series. The conversation, “The Future of Freedom of Religion,” was presented 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. The series, which ran throughout the 2021-2022 academic year, examined the interplay between foundational concepts and societal changes to create a dialogue on contemporary challenges for the…
Author: Erin DeGregorio
The sixth annual Pre-Law Institute and 14th annual Summer Institute began at Fordham Law School on July 5. This year’s programs have drawn nearly 80 participants from the U.S., Puerto Rico, and 15 other countries—Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay. Also attending this year’s Pre-Law Institute are 10 participants from the Increasing Diversity in Education and Law (IDEAL) pipeline program, which seeks to address issues relating to disadvantaged and underrepresented individuals in law school and the increasing need for racial and socioeconomic diversity in the legal profession.…
On June 8, Fordham Law School welcomed Thomas Byrne, Ireland’s minister of state for European affairs, to discuss post-Brexit issues impacting the island of Ireland. The main focus was the Northern Ireland Protocol, an agreement between the European Union (EU, of which Ireland is a member) and the U.K. in 2019 as part of the Brexit negotiations. The protocol is a unique trade arrangement that keeps Northern Ireland (a part of the U.K.) aligned with the EU single market for goods and avoids a hard border on the island of Ireland. Even after its implementation in 2021, it has encountered…
Dean Emeritus and Norris Professor of Law John D. Feerick ’61 added yet another honor to his illustrious list of accolades—a doctorate of laws honoris causa from University College Dublin (UCD). The honorary degree was bestowed upon Feerick on June 14 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the American legal field. Feerick, 85, said he was overcome with emotion upon receiving the invitation from UCD, and thought of his late parents who hailed from County Mayo. “I am overwhelmed and humbled by this high honor, for which I feel unworthy,” Feerick said. “I consider this honorary degree as a…
Below are the full remarks delivered June 14, 2022 by John D. Feerick ’61, Dean Emeritus and Norris Professor of Law, at University College Dublin (UCD), after being conferred with the degree of doctor of laws, honoris causa: I am overwhelmed and humbled by this high honor, for which I feel unworthy. I wish to thank UCD’s former dean, Imelda Maher, for launching the selection process for this honor. This honor has great meaning to me, both emotionally and professionally, coming as it does from a University of grandeur in the history of Ireland. I mention emotionally because of my…
Below is the full citation for the doctorate of laws, honoris causa, conferred by University College Dublin (UCD) on John D. Feerick ’61, Dean Emeritus and Norris Professor of Law, and delivered June 14, 2022, by Professor Imelda Maher, former dean of law at UCD: Professor Feerick is the former—and celebrated—dean of Fordham Law School, whose professional life falls into three chapters. Two years after becoming a lawyer, he published an article on [U.S.] presidential inability in the Fordham Law Review, of which he had been editor-in-chief. It was 1963 and, within a matter of weeks, President John F. Kennedy…
Fordham Law School is pleased to announce that Norrinda Brown Hayat, one of clinical legal education’s rising stars and an award-winning housing advocate, has been appointed to the full-time faculty. She will join the faculty in the fall and will be teaching a housing-related clinic in the upcoming spring semester. “I am excited to join Fordham’s wonderful faculty and to teach and engage with students interested in aiding the right to counsel in eviction cases and joining the fight for the right to housing in New York City and beyond,” said Professor Hayat. Hayat comes to Fordham Law from Rutgers…
A Message from Dean Matthew Diller June 17, 2022 Dear Fordham Law Community, As you know, our campus will be closed on Monday in observance of Juneteenth. In the message he sent earlier this week, Father McShane stressed why it is so important for us to honor this day, which commemorates the end of legal slavery in the United States. At a moment when there seems to be so many obstacles to our collective vision for true equality and equal justice under the law, we must remember how far we as a nation have come and reinvigorate our commitment to…
Following the May 2020 murder of George Floyd and the ensuing outcries about structural racism in society, Fordham Law School, like institutions everywhere, looked inward—and, a few months later, produced a plan for addressing racism within and beyond the campus community. While Fordham Law School was founded to serve people who had traditionally been excluded from the legal field, “we have significantly more work to do … to truly ensure that all of our students, particularly those from underrepresented communities, experience a learning environment that is supportive and free from bias,” Matthew Diller, dean of the Law School, said in…
Several authors of articles recently published by the Fordham Law Review returned to Fordham Law School on April 28 for a virtual discussion to continue a conversation on “subversive lawyering.” In October 2021, the Center on Race, Law and Justice and the Stein Center for Law and Ethics held a colloquium in collaboration with the Fordham Law Review on what it means to be subversive when practicing law. Practitioners and academics from across disciplines, including housing, criminal justice, and legal education, came together to tease out this question. Their discussions resulted in seven essays examining the idea that lawyers, in…