Bernice Grant, founding director of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic and senior director of the Entrepreneurial Law Program, has been appointed associate clinical professor. She teaches students how to provide transactional legal services, using an integrated law and business perspective informed by her background as a corporate attorney and certified public accountant. Grant has published articles in the Hastings Law Journal and the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law. In 2018, she created the Startup LAWnchpad Podcast, which educates entrepreneurs about legal issues affecting startup ventures. Students in Fordham Law’s Entrepreneurial Law Clinic are involved in all aspects of…
Author: Erin DeGregorio
The Office of Professionalism is expanding upon Fordham Law’s annual Mental Health Day by launching the Law School’s first-ever Wellness Week. Doubling down on the school’s already robust wellness offerings, the week is designed to spark conversations about holistic approaches to well-being and to promote mental health awareness in the Fordham Law community. “We firmly believe that wellness is a community effort,” said Jordana Confino, director of professionalism and special projects. “With COVID-19 and everything else that’s been going on in the world, it has never been so important for us to find ways to help the members of our…
Professor Bruce Green, Louis Stein Chair and director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, shared his expert opinion with The Washington Post regarding grand jury proceedings. He noted that grand juries have different functions and procedures than trial juries. They hear evidence and only weigh whether criminal charges are warranted, which involves a lower standard of proof than what is required in court, said Bruce A. Green, a law professor at Fordham University and a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. “Their work is one-sided, in the sense that they only consider evidence presented by the…
Professor Kimani Paul-Emile, who was a featured panelist at an event hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, was quoted in an article published by Harvard Law. She and other interdisciplinary scholars discussed the relationship between the law, race, and health. Structural racism “refers to the disadvantage that results from the operation of several interconnected social and economic systems, such as education, employment, credit financing, housing, policing, incarceration,” added Kimani Paul-Emile, professor of law, associate director and head of domestic programs and initiatives at Fordham Law School’s Center on Race, Law & Justice, and faculty…
Dean Matthew Diller, Assistant Dean Toni Jaeger-Fine, and Professor Nestor Davidson were quoted in an article by The National Jurist, which highlights the Law School’s recently-launched LL.M. in Real Estate program. Fordham is the only law school in New York City—and one of three in the United States—to offer a graduate law program in real estate. “Fordham’s robust real estate offerings and central location in the real estate capital of the world provides a unique opportunity for students to enhance their careers,” said Dean Matthew Diller. … “Students in our program will have access to our law school’s exceptional faculty and many real…
Professor Bruce Green, Louis Stein Chair and director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, co-authored an article for Bloomberg Law with Rebecca Roiphe New York Law School. In the piece they argued an expansion of powers of the Department of Justice inspector general can serve as a remedy to abuse of prosecutorial power. Read the full article here.
On October 1, Professor Zephyr Teachout was a witness at the House Antitrust Subcommittee’s seventh and final hearing in a series examining if Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are operating as illegal monopolies. She told the subcommittee that Congress, not the Supreme Court, should regulate Big Tech. “It is quintessentially a congressional job to respond to this threat,” Teachout said, calling for “significant” new legislation. … When acting to regulate Big Tech, Teachout argued, Congress should limit certain large companies to a single line of business, preventing Amazon, for example, from controlling businesses for online commerce while also controlling shipping and fulfillment.…
Professor Susan Scafidi, director of the Fashion Law Institute, was mentioned in an article for Law.com’s Daily Business Review. Patricia Flanagan, partner at Fox Rothschild, named Professor Scafidi as her favorite mentor. Professor Susan Scafidi at Fordham Law School founded the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham, where I earned a certificate in 2016. She inspired me with her determination to pursue her goal despite any number of naysayers. She truly pioneered the study of fashion law and others are now copying what she did. Read the full article.
Professor Olivier Sylvain was featured in a panel discussion on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and was mentioned in a Broadband Breakfast article. The Federal Communications Bar Association hosted the discussion. Sylvain of Fordham said he supported the “common sense” bipartisan efforts to change Section 230 along procedural grounds. He called for a further exploration about how implicated platform intermediaries are in content creation, and said that intermediaries are not like the electronic bulletin boards of the past. Because of their location in the market and their two-sided position between advertisers and users, intermediaries are reshaping the way consumers…
Professor Mark Patterson shared his expert opinions with The Economist regarding the ongoing legal battle between Apple and Epic Games, maker of the popular online video game “Fortnite.” Professor Patterson sees parallels with Microsoft’s run-in with trustbusters in 2001. The software giant’s bundling of its web browser with its Windows operating system was eventually found to be anticompetitive. Apple exerts more power over iPhones than Microsoft did over Windows PCs, Mr. Patterson says. But its share of the market for mobile operating systems is smaller than Microsoft’s was in desktops. Read the full article. Professor Patterson was also the featured…