Daniel Abowd ’21 was awarded the 2021 Joseph T. McLaughlin Original Student Article Award at the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR)’s 39th Annual Awards. The awards honor outstanding scholarship and practical achievement in the field of alternative dispute resolution. Abowd’s winning article is titled “Imagine: Could Mediation Systems Fix Songwriter Split Disputes?” The award criteria focuses on processes, techniques, systems, commitment, and scholarship that address the resolution, prevention, or creative management of major disputes involving public or business institutions between corporations, between government and corporations, or among multiple parties. The review committee is composed of judges and…
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REAL Scholar Veenay Komaragiri ’24, REAL Scholar Roger Orellana ’24, and Shiva Sachdeva ’24 have been selected to participate in the New York City Bar Diversity Fellowship Program this summer. Komaragiri will spend his summer at Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), Orellana at Viacom, and Sachdeva at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. The program, launched in 1991 as an initiative of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Lawyers, provides opportunities for first-year students at law schools in the New York area from underrepresented populations to spend their summer in some…
Jessica Berman ’02 has been a trailblazer for women looking to break into the sports law industry for the past two decades. She has held various positions at the National Hockey League and National Lacrosse League, and now prepares to join the National Women’s Soccer League next month. After graduating from Fordham Law, Berman joined Proskauer Rose as an associate in the labor and employment department. She later brought her talents and skills to the NHL, serving in numerous roles—including vice president and deputy general counsel, then vice president of community development, culture and growth, as well as executive director…
Fordham Law School has been recognized as one of the top feeder schools for large law firms, ranking 19th in this year’s “Go-To Law School” ranking by the National Law Journal. The publication ranks law schools based on the percentage of the most recent graduating class sent to the largest 100 law firms. Nearly 130 members (32%) of the J.D. Class of 2021 joined a large firm as first-year associates after graduation. Additionally, the report ranked Fordham Law 6th on the number of alumni promoted from associates to partners. Earlier this year, Fordham Law School was ranked one of the…
The Fordham Sports Law Forum is celebrating a milestone anniversary this year—25 years. Since 1996, the group has brought together accomplished attorneys from different facets of the sports industry via a day-long symposium to have in-depth debates about contemporary issues surrounding sports law. This year’s symposium—sponsored by Herrick, Feinstein LLP—will be held in a hybrid format from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, March 11. Registration for participants is still open. “Looking back at the forum’s history and different sports law-related issues and headlines over the last 25 years, it’s an incredible opportunity to see how far we’ve come…
The Center for Judicial Events & Clerkships (CJEC) welcomed Judge Diane J. Humetewa from the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona as its speaker for the third annual First to the Bench Program. Judge Humetewa is the first Native American woman and enrolled tribal member to serve on the federal bench. The annual First to the Bench Program is a collaborative initiative between the CJEC and the First-Generation Law Students organization (F1GS) designed to provide first generation students who are immigrants, first generation college or first-generation law students to engage with esteemed members of the judiciary who are…
Approximately 100 attorneys completed virtual training to provide volunteer legal aid to incarcerated people appealing parole denials, through Fordham Law School’s Parole Advocacy Initiative (PAI) on Feb. 16. The initiative is a collaboration between the Parole Preparation Project, a New York City-based nonprofit that has advocated for the release of those serving long sentences, and Lincoln Square Legal Services, Inc., the clinical law office at Fordham Law. PAI’s work aims to increase access to high quality, pro bono counsel for incarcerated people who are serving indeterminate life sentences and are appealing denials of parole. “This work has been going on…
Drawing on their practical experience in the U.S. and abroad, three experts from Fordham’s Law School recently analyzed the ramifications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “We’ve really seen an attempt to rewrite the fundamental rules of international society. I think we have had a world order since 1945—as imperfect as it was—that kept the world, to some extent, reasonably safe … But when you hear a nuclear power talking about the possibility of using nuclear weapons in 2022, when you hear a sitting head of state threatening other European nations … You can see that the rules we used to…
More than 100 Fordham Law alumni, faculty, staff members, and friends gathered virtually on Feb. 17 to celebrate the launch of the Africa Alumni Association regional chapter. Special guests in attendance included Dr. Willy Mutunga, former chief justice and president of the Supreme Court of Kenya; Professor Kofi Abotsi, dean of University of Professional Studies Law School, Accra; Bigirimana Fructuose, dean of The Faculty of Law at the Institute of Applied Sciences-Ruhengeri; Elizabeth Black, senior manager of White & Case’s legal education programs and volunteer activities globally; James Leitner ’82, president of Falcon Management Corporation; Hon. Ann Claire Williams, head…
Manjusha P. Kulkarni, a racial justice attorney who was named among the 100 most influential individuals in 2021 by TIME magazine, delivered the lecture “Combating Hate, Racism, and Xenophobia Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders” at a Fordham Law event on Feb. 24. “What we’re talking about today is not simply acts of interpersonal racism, which are based on prejudgment bias and result in discrimination on an individual basis, but also institutional racism that has policies and practices that benefit white Americans to the detriment of people of color, whether they’re intentional or inadvertent. That, combined, creates what we have in…