Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law Tanya Hernández is currently writing her third book, On Latino Anti-Black Bias: “Racial Innocence” & The Struggle for Equality. “I didn’t plan it this way, but it feels like part three of a trilogy and seemed so inevitable,” she said about the book, which is two years in the making. “I like to look at things in a comparative and hemispheric manner because it’s very illuminating to think through issues regarding race in that way.” In her first book, Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of State, Customary Law, and the New Civil…
Author: Erin DeGregorio
This year’s Public Service Day, hosted by Fordham Law’s Public Interest Resource Center, certainly looked and operated very differently from years past, as it was held virtually (with the exception of one in-person project). Nevertheless, 167 incoming students spent their Saturday working on 13 different projects with 16 upper-class student leaders. Despite the pandemic, this was the largest number of students to engage in the annual day of service, according to Assistant Dean for Public Interest and Social Justice Initiatives Leah Horowitz ’06. “Our student leaders always do a fantastic job with organizing, leading, and implementing interesting projects. However, the…
The Center for Judicial Events & Clerkships, to further the clerkship side of the Center’s mandate, has launched a Peer Clerkship Council (PCC). The founding members of the PCC are members of the J.D. Class of 2021 who have worked closely with the CJEC to secure their clerkships with state and federal court judges. In the true spirit of Fordham Law, these students will now “pay it forward” by providing guidance and support to their fellow students who seek to pursue clerkships. The PCC will play a key role in helping the CJEC to foster a broad and inclusive clerkship-oriented…
Some Fordham Law students faced uncertainty in the spring when the coronavirus forced summer internships to be shortened or canceled altogether. However, many of the Law School’s alumni quickly stepped up to take those students under their wings and provide remote work opportunities throughout the country, from Miami to Los Angeles and beyond. From the Big Apple to Albany Recent J.D. graduate Claudia Bennett ’20 landed a summer internship with Kathy Walter ’17, program counsel with the New York State Division of Consumer Protection. Bennett—who was spending her 3L year abroad at LUISS University in Rome as part of a…
As students descended on campus or logged on remotely for the first day of classes on Aug. 26, the Fordham Law community was joined by its incoming class of 416 first-year J.D. students. Nearly 5,400 applicants from throughout the U.S. and around the globe competed for the 416 slots in the J.D. program. Women make up nearly 55 percent of the new class, and 34 percent of incoming students self-identify as a minority—including 37 Black students, 45 Latinx students, 41 Asian students, and 17 students who identify as multiracial. The class also includes 23 international students from 6 countries. “Our…
After closing its physical campus on March 9 due to the coronavirus outbreak, Fordham Law School reopened the building for the first time this week, welcoming new students for its first-ever hybrid orientation. This year’s orientation consisted of online elements—watching pre-recorded videos and taking part in interactive Zoom exercises—and optional in-person programming. Incoming 1Ls had the opportunity to speak with their house leaders, professors, fellow classmates, and upper-year students during small-group virtual meetings and coffee chats. Fordham Law School Dean Matthew Diller welcomed the new class in a video, emphasizing the importance and need for lawyers at this time. “All…
Recent graduate and outgoing Editor-in-Chief of the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center Aishling Fitzpatrick ’20 came in second place at Baylor Law’s 11th Annual Top Gun National Mock Trial Competition—the most prestigious, invite-only individual trial advocacy competition in the country. She was nominated to represent Fordham Law at the tournament, which took place from May 27 to 31, due in part to her stellar cross examination at Faulkner’s Mockingbird Competition in the fall of 2019. Fitzpatrick will be working for Kasowitz, Benson & Torres, a litigation firm in Manhattan, once she takes the bar exam. What Makes Top Gun Unlike…
Veronica Dunlap ’14—a graduate of the J.D./M.B.A. program—has been named a 2020 recipient of the Outstanding Public Service Award by the National Bar Association (NBA) Women Lawyers Division (WLD). The WLD was established in 1972 as a vehicle for women in the practice of law to address the issues and problems that particularly affect, interest, and concern African American women. Annually, the WLD recognizes women lawyers for their outstanding achievements and select women are nominated for the following awards: outstanding corporate (in-house) counsel, outstanding solo/small firm, outstanding minority partner in majority firm, excellence in the judiciary, outstanding young lawyer, outstanding…
Recent graduate Elias Wright ’20 was awarded first place and a prize of $1,000 in the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy’s second annual James R. Cleary Prize competition for his student note, “The Future of Facial Recognition Is Not Fully Known: Developing Privacy and Security Regulatory Mechanisms for Facial Recognition in the Retail Sector.” Prizes are awarded to three authors of published scholarly papers that most creatively and convincingly propose solutions to significant problems in the field of media law and policy. Wright’s note focused on facial recognition technology—specifically examining how private sector biometric technologies play a role…
Associate Professor of Law Zephyr Teachout’s latest book, Break ‘Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money (All Points Books), argues that Google, Facebook, and Bayer are evolving from monopolists into political entities that bend state and federal legislature to their will and create arbitration courts that circumvent the U.S. justice system. In the book, Teachout suggests that in order to build a better future, these monopolies must be broken up and eradicated from the private sector—making a compelling case that they are the root cause of many of the issues that today’s progressives care…