Professor Bruce Green provided his take on former President Donald Trump’s public comments about the judge overseeing his indictment for election fraud. “I don’t think the judge will respond to his public statements, and I don’t think she should,” Green said. “If he wants to make a recusal motion and there’s a nonfrivolous recusal motion to be made … he’s entitled to make the motion if he wants to make it.” Read “Trump directs rage at DC judge handling his Jan. 6 case” in The Hill.
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Associate Professor Sepehr Shahshahani and Princeton’s Professor Nolan McCarty share their research and finding on the relationship between market power and political power in a ProMarket article. We find no positive correlation between an industry’s economic concentration and its concentration of lobbying expenditures—meaning economically concentrated industries are not necessarily politically concentrated in terms of lobbying. This casts doubt on the premise that economic concentration breeds concentration of political influence. We also find no correlation between an industry’s economic concentration and the share of industry revenue dedicated to lobbying (a result that is forthcoming in a new version of the paper).…
Professor Atinuke Adediran contributed to a Wall Street Journal article on current and expected legal challenges to diversity initiatives in corporate America. Companies are evaluating diversity programs in light of litigation threats that often seem designed to stoke public fear, said Fordham University law professor Atinuke Adediran. She has received inquiries on the subject from an association of human-resources officers at large companies. “Most of what the firms are doing for diversity is legal,” she said. “Companies may need to be ready to defend themselves.” Read “The Legal Assault on Corporate Diversity Efforts Has Begun” in the Wall Street Journal.
As former President Donald Trump’s legal team prepares to defend him on federal criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election, Professor Cheryl Bader discusses what the prosecution will be focused on. “Smith is going to focus on the evidence of all the instances where advisers, staffers, court decisions, intelligence agencies, the Department of Justice are all telling him that there’s nothing there, that the emperor has no clothes. And yet, Trump persisted and actually ramped up the pressure campaign.” Read “Trump’s defense in the 2020 election case, explained by legal experts” on Vox.
Professor Bruce Green is quoted in a New York Times article on the many potential conflicts among Trump’s legal team representing him for two indictments charging him with illegally hoarding classified documents and trying to overturn the 2020 election. “This is boundary breaking,” Bruce Green, who teaches legal ethics at Fordham Law School in New York, said about the totality of the issues involved. “What I’m most curious about is why these lawyers want to play so many roles. Usually, lawyers just want to be lawyers.” Read “Trump’s Legal Team Is Enmeshed in a Tangle of Possible Conflicts” in The…
Professor Julie Suk, author of After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It, joined Robert Scheer on his podcast Scheer Intelligence to discuss how modern-day societal challenges for women tie back to our Constitutional framework. Click below to listen or watch.
Professor Julie Suk, author of After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It, joined law school deans Jackie Gardina and Mitch Winick on their podcast SideBar to discuss the legal and economic framework in the United States that fails to fairly recognize and value women’s work. Unfortunately, the U.S. remains a leader in unequal pay, no pay, inadequate support for childcare, healthcare, and social services, and irregular parental leave policies and protections. Professor Julie Suk explains how other countries have enacted constitutional protections and inclusive lawmaking processes that result in more equitable outcomes for women…
Professor Karen Greenberg, who has researched Guantánamo Bay prison for decades, wrote a piece for TomDispatch about recent site-visit reports calling for American officials to address human rights violations. Twelve years later, in March 2022, Ni Aoláin, five years into her role as special rapporteur wrote a follow-up to the report, highlighting “the abject failure to implement the recommendations” of that study and the “tragic and profound consequences for individuals who were systematically tortured, rendered across borders, arbitrarily detained, and deprived of their most fundamental rights.” Her update “reiterates the demand that accountability, reparation, and transparency be implemented by those states responsible…
Professor Cheryl Bader and Professor Bennett Capers both contributed to a USA Today article on whether Hunter Biden was treated equally under the law compared to other defendants with regard to his plea agreement for tax evasion and firearm offense. Read “Did Hunter Biden get a sweetheart deal? How these cases play out with other defendants” on USA Today.
Federal Southern District Judge, Hon. Loretta Preska ’73, issued an order to the City of New York requiring officials to address failures to provide crucial services to public school students with disabilities in a timely manner. Read “Judge Orders New York to Move Faster to Help Special Education Students” in The New York Times.