Specific legislation designed to strip localities of their power has been introduced in several states, all in the name of government efficiency. Nestor M. Davidson, the Albert A. Walsh Professor of Real Estate, Land Use, and Property Law at Fordham Law School, told Route Fifty why he believes state legislators are likely moving forward with these bills. Read “State DOGEs’ next frontiers could preempt local authority” on Route Fifty.
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As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids sweep Los Angeles, Fordham Law Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández’s 2022 book, which examines Latino anti-Black racism, is resurfaced in this Word In Black article on identity and racial solidarity. Afro Latina civil rights lawyer Tanya Katerí Hernández, a Fordham Law professor, explored this dynamic in her 2022 book “Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias.” She argues that Latinos are often seen as racially diverse and welcoming, but they hide anti-Black attitudes. Latinos, she wrote in the book, are “entangled with denigrating Blackness as a device for performing Whiteness.” But Hernández also warned African…
Susan Scafidi, founder and director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, spoke with Women’s Wear Daily about the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) lawsuit between fashion technology company CaaStle and the company’s founder and former CEO Christine Hunsicker. Susan Scafidi, founder and director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School, said the complaint “recasts” the scandal, replacing a single mastermind with a conspiracy. “It appears intended not only to get ahead of a government investigation but also to distribute the blame — and thus the potential financial liability — for alleged extreme financial misrepresentations, and…
Fordham Law Dean Emeritus Matthew Diller spoke with The National Law Journal about the harms of nonacquiescence—the refusal of an administrative agency to apply the law of the reviewing court. Read “‘Intracircuit Nonacquiescence’: What Is It, Why Did It Arise in SCOTUS’ Birthright Citizenship Hearing?” in National Law Journal.
The U.S. Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section has been stripped of power to fight political corruption, losing its authority to file new cases. Fordham Law Professor Andrew Kent was quoted in a Reuters special report about the overhaul. Beyond the Justice Department, Trump and his administration have sought to weaken or eliminate other institutions meant to be insulated from political influence, including firing independent inspectors general, who audit federal agencies for fraud and waste. Those moves risk steering the U.S. toward a more autocratic style of government, some constitutional specialists warn. “What is happening here is utterly unprecedented,” said Andrew…
In this interview with the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College, Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout weighs in on the current age of corruption. Roger Berkowitz: Ivan Krastev rightly focuses on Trump’s blatant corruption and asks: why does nobody seem to care? Last week, I offered one answer grounded in the rage against hypocrisy. Corruption that once disqualified a politician is now overlooked — or even admired — so long as it is without pretense and when it is perceived to be the privilege of real and raw power. At a moment when trust in liberal institutions is collapsing,…
Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout explains to New York Times columnist Ezra Klein what she objects in “Abundance,” the new book written by Klein and the Atlantic writer Derek Thompson, on how Democrats have governed in the places where they have held power. “Abundance” is an effort to focus more of American politics on a surprisingly neglected question: What do we need more of, and what is stopping us from getting it? It is that focus that some of my friends on the populist left object to. Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham law professor who’s a central figure on the anti-monopolist left, told…
The financial entanglements of Dr. Casey Means—President Donald Trump’s pick to be U.S. surgeon general—is raising eyebrows. Fordham Law Professor Olivier Sylvain, who was previously a senior advisor to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan, was quoted in an ABC News article, commenting on the disclosure requirements rarely enforced by the FTC. President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next U.S. surgeon general has repeatedly said the nation’s medical, health and food systems are corrupted by special interests and people out to make a profit at the expense of Americans’ health. Yet as Dr. Casey Means has criticized scientists, medical schools…
Fordham Law Professor Rebecca Kysar—who served as counselor to the assistant secretary of tax policy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 2021 to 2022—talked to Tax Notes Today Federal about the retaliatory taxes included in President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” and other red flags. Read “Tax Bill’s ‘Revenge Tax’ May Run Afoul of Senate’s Byrd Rule” in Tax Notes Today Federal.
Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jordana Confino, Fordham’s former—and inaugural—assistant dean of professionalism, published a report on a major research project she conducted in partnership with the National Association for Law Placement on perfectionism in the legal profession, lawyer mental health, and well-being. Read and download the full report, “THE PERFECTIONIST PARADOX: Report on the 2024 Lawyer Perfectionism & Well-Being Survey.” Watch the related webinar discussing the results, “The Perfectionist Paradox: Results from the 2024 Lawyer Perfectionism and Well-Being Survey.” Read the June 2025 Bulletin+ article, “The Perils of Perfection: Why Lawyers Need to Rethink Their “Badge of Honor.”