Adjunct Professor Raymond Dowd ’91 was quoted in Variety on the latest prejudgment interest rulings handed down regarding Nazi-looted art. He recently argued in front of the Appellate Court in Manhattan, stating that the current estimate in prejudgment interest in Reif v. Nagy was “too low by half.” Last week, in a New York courtroom, Dowd was there, as he has been since 2005, fighting for the claims of the Grunbaum Foundation as they try to recover the rights to artworks stolen from Grunbaum and his widow, Lily, more than 80 years ago. Two Schiele works, “Woman in a Black Pinafore” (1911) and “Woman…
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The latest report from the Feerick Center for Social Justice, titled The Next Step: Prioritizing Equity and Recovery in NYC High School Admissions, was highlighted in an article in Chalkbeat. Dora Galacatos ’96, executive director of the Feerick Center, and Karuna Patel, deputy director of the Feerick Center, were also quoted in the article discussing the role geographic screens play when it comes to student diversity across New York City schools. New York City’s high school system rests on a patchwork of choice and exclusivity. Thousands of students criss-cross the five boroughs each day on subways, buses, and ferries to get to schools…
Dean Emeritus and Norris Professor of Law John D. Feerick ’61, who helped draft the 25th Amendment in 1964, and Visiting Clinical Professor John Rogan ’14 co-authored an article for The Washington Post on why use of the 25th Amendment should be normalized and not reserved for exceptional circumstances. Vice President Harris was spared from having to confront any crises that demanded immediate attention during her brief but historic tenure as acting president on Friday morning. Still, President Biden was right to formally transfer his powers and duties to her under the 25th Amendment, even if it was for just 85…
Professor Courtney Cox received an honorable mention from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in its 36th Annual AALS Scholarly Papers Competition. The competition is open to new and emerging law school faculty members who have been teaching for five years or fewer. Using trade secrets as a case study, Professor Cox’s paper, “Legitimizing Lies” (forthcoming in the George Washington Law Review), shows how the law sometimes accepts lies as a legitimate option for fulfilling legal requirements—and may even require lies in increasingly common circumstances. “Legitimizing Lies” was selected to be presented for the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum 2020…
Eight members of the Fordham Law faculty recently spoke about the big ideas that drive their work—from frontline workers’ rights to changing power dynamic between cities and states to privacy and crime control—as part of a limited video series. “Our nation is at a crossroads as we grapple with fundamental questions covering a range of issues that define our society and shape our culture,” said Dean Matthew Diller. “Legal scholarship plays a critical role in helping us understand these issues, the backdrop against which they arise, and in identifying promising ways forward that are true to our core values.” Their…
On Nov. 10, Fordham and the FBI co-sponsored a special webinar, “Out of the Shadows: Shining a Light on the Next Cyber Threats,” featuring three experts who spoke about recent threats and how ordinary citizens can protect themselves. “Today as we seek to better conceptualize the threats and adversaries that face us all, none seems to be more global, threatening, and in need of attention than today’s cyber environment,” said the event moderator, Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at the School of Law. “Cyber vulnerabilities stand to affect governments, the private sector, institutions, organizations, and individuals—in a…
Two Fordham graduates were recently named to the Middle East Policy Council’s inaugural cohort of 40 Under 40 awardees. Jayson Browder, PCS ’13, and Mohamed Sweify, S.J.D., LAW ’21, were both included on the list of people “shaping the present and future of U.S.–Middle East relations,” according to the council, which aims “to contribute to American understanding of the political, economic and cultural issues that affect U.S. interests in the Middle East.” Browder, a decorated veteran of the U.S. Air Force, is the founder and chairman of Veterans in Global Leadership, a nonprofit that provides executive-level leadership development programs for…
Fordham Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice today released The Next Step: Prioritizing Equity and Recovery in NYC High School Admissions, urging New York City to implement desegregative reforms urgently needed for middle and high school admissions. Currently, New York City lags behind other major cities that have adopted pandemic-era reforms and made admissions to selective high schools significantly more equitable. The report makes recommendations to improve New York City schools at a time when the NYC Department of Education (NYCDOE) has yet to announce high school admissions policies for 2022-2023 or beyond. The Next Step provides NYCDOE with…
On Wednesday, October 27, the Center for Judicial Events & Clerkships (CJEC) welcomed more than 100 students to its first in-person event since March 2020. The event titled “Judges and Clerks’ Roles in the Courts: Perspectives from First-Generation Alumni” is part of the Center’s first-generation initiative developed in partnership with the Fordham First Generation Students (F1GS). The event featured remarks by Senior Judge Denny Chin ’78, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Fordham Law’s inaugural Lawrence W. Pierce Distinguished Jurist in Residence, and welcomed 10 first-generation Fordham Law alumni who are or were clerks for a…
On Friday, October 29, the Center for Judicial Events & Clerkships (CJEC) and Reed Lecture Series co-hosted a virtual event on the life and legacy of Judge Harry Pregerson. The two-part event opened with a screening of the documentary film titled “9th Circuit Cowboy: The Long, Good Fight of Judge Harry Pregerson” followed by a discussion with two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Terry Sanders and Judge Dean Pregerson of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and son of the late Judge Harry Pregerson. Judge Harry Pregerson—who was often seen wearing a cowboy hat and leather boots—served on…