One week after the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6—and just minutes after President Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives—Adjunct Professor Jerry Goldfeder and Professor Jed Shugerman shared their perspectives on impeachment and the 25th Amendment at a Jan. 13 panel discussion hosted by the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA). Both serve on the NYSBA Task Force on the Presidential Election, which is chaired by Professor Goldfeder. “No matter how you feel about this president of the United States, and no matter how you feel about the article of impeachment and what the…
Author: Erin DeGregorio
Years before the coronavirus pandemic turned the world upside down, Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey, Ph.D., MPH, JD, FCRH ’79, LAW ’82, GSS ’11, knew that expanding her knowledge of public health and research would be beneficial to her practice as a health care attorney. She earned her Master of Public Health degree in 2005 and, thereafter, received a Ph.D. in health and gerontological social work research at Fordham Graduate School of Social Service in 2011. Leading the Pandemic Response Morrissey has worked with many scientists and public health officials over her 25-plus-year long career, including while serving as president of…
Felsenfeld, a Faculty Member for Nearly 40 Years, Helped Launch the LL.M. Program in Banking, Corporate, and Financial Law The Fordham Law community mourns the passing of Professor Carl Felsenfeld, an expert on a broad range of commercial law subjects. After teaching as an adjunct professor for nearly a decade at Fordham Law while serving as a vice president at Citicorp, he joined the Law School’s full-time faculty in 1983. He educated thousands of students during his four decades at the school before his retirement in 2017. Felsenfeld died on Jan. 4 at the age of 93. He is survived…
In an op-ed published in the New York Daily News, students Kelly Lin ’21 and Sarah McShane ’21 explore the history of the pardon power and discuss whether it would be constitutional for President Donald Trump to pardon himself. The U.S. Constitution limits the pardon power in two ways: The president may not pardon in cases of impeachment and may only grant pardons for offenses against the United States. It doesn’t say anything about whether he can pardon himself. But the history of the pardon power and the overall context of the Constitution prevent him from exonerating himself as he…
Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law Tanya Hernández was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about the incoming Biden administration looking to boost pay transparency for all U.S. workers through better data collection. The EEOC is studying how to proceed with some form of a data collection, but that report won’t be complete until the end of the year. “The world doesn’t fall apart by a little bit of regulating, and trying to put a little fairness into the world,” said Fordham University School of Law professor Tanya Hernández. … The National Women’s Law Center found in its most recent report that Latina workers…
Adjunct Professor Leila Amineddoleh has been named one of the top women attorneys in the art world by Art She Says. Amineddoleh owns her own practice, Amineddoleh & Associates, and represents major art collectors, museums, galleries, dealers, non-profits, artists, estates, foundations, and foreign governments. As a leading specialist in art authentication, Amineddoleh collaborates with the world’s foremost forensic scientists and art historians to assist collectors and arts institutions through the complex authentication process. An internationally recognized expert on art and cultural heritage crime and law, Leila has lectured at esteemed institutions, including the Frick Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, the…
Stein Scholar Luna Garzón-Montano ’21 has been selected as a fellow in the E. Barrett Prettyman and Stuart Stiller Fellowship Program at Georgetown Law. She will be Fordham Law School’s first Prettyman Fellow. Upon accepting the offer, Garzón-Montano thanked Fordham Law’s Aisha Baruni, Leah Horowitz, and Criminal Defense Clinic supervisors, as well as her mentors at Southern Center for Human Rights (where she interned her 1L summer) and Federal Defenders of New York, for their unwavering support. “I’m excited to begin my career representing people who can’t afford lawyers in our criminal legal system and to do it with the…
On Nov. 6, Fordham Law School hosted a virtual symposium examining how lawyers’ mental health is affected by the interplay between legal practice and contemporary societal stressors—notably the coronavirus pandemic, racial violence and discrimination, and political polarization. For the first time ever, the Fordham Law Review, the Neuroscience and Law Center, the Center on Race, Law and Justice, and the Stein Center for Law and Ethics partnered together to present such an event. The symposium featured four panels with social scientists, senior and junior legal scholars, a judge, and a journalist. “This symposium tackled a subject of great importance from…
On Nov. 21, college students gathered remotely with Fordham Law faculty and students to learn more about law school and the application process after participating in the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity Program. “CLEO, which just celebrated its 52nd anniversary in November, has a very long, solid history with providing access to opportunity and is a gateway for marginalized students to enter law school,” said Kamille Dean, Fordham Law’s new director of diversity, equity, and inclusion. “For us, to be a part of that legacy is huge, and we are so honored.” Fordham Law,…
During the fall 2020 semester, the Center for Judicial Events and Clerkships (CJEC) reprised its popular Alumni Clerk Chat Roundtable series in a virtual format. The series is designed to expose students to the notion of clerkships early on and to enable them to engage with alumni who are or were judicial clerks through these informal and interactive roundtables. “We are lucky to have such a diverse and vibrant group of alumni clerks across the country,” said Suzanne M. Endrizzi ’96, CJEC assistant dean. “Though the Law School events were held virtually during the fall semester, due to the health…