Professor Deborah Denno talks in The Appeal about the approval of three states, Mississippi, Alabama, and Oklahoma to use nitrogen gas for executions. Mississippi and Alabama followed Oklahoma in 2017 and 2018 in approving nitrogen for executions. But none of the states has actually come up with a way to use it. That comes as a relief to opponents who say there’s no way to predict whether it will be painless. … The Oklahoma Department of Corrections did not respond to a request for comment on its approval of nitrogen for executions. “We are still working with the Attorney General’s…
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Professor Nestor Davidson wrote an article for Law360 about a major settlement two counties reached with drug companies and how it will serve as a model for thousands of other pending opioid cases being brought by local governments. On Oct. 21, two Ohio counties reached a $260 million settlement with four drug companies, just before opening arguments were scheduled to begin in the federal opioid multidistrict litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. The deal can serve as a model for the literally thousands of cases from cities, counties, Native American tribes and others yet…
Amidst intense political debate over the case for removal of a president, Cass Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard, led an insightful lecture into historical roots of our impeachment process. Sunstein is the author of 48 books, including, most recently, Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide. An expert in constitutional law, regulatory policy and economic analysis of law, he is noted as the most cited legal scholar in the U.S. “We are now witnessing–for one of the few times in the history of this country–a sitting president of the United States being the subject of the formal impeachment inquiry by the…
Judy Mok ’07 was selected by The New York Law Journal as a Rising Star, an award that recognizes the region’s most promising lawyers under 40. Judy Mok is a member of Ballard Spahr‘s consumer financial services group and focuses her practice in the payments space. She advises leading banks, hotel chains, airlines, retailers, and fintechs in negotiating and drafting complex strategic partnership agreements that are essential for the success of their businesses. ….. Ms. Mok is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the profession. She serves as co-vice president of strategic development and marketing for the Don H. Liu…
Fordham Law professor and MacArthur “Genius” Award-winner Gay McDougall has been championing human rights within the UN for more than three decades. She has held several important positions, including as the first UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues. This post took her to over 17 countries to meet with heads of state, cabinet ministers, human rights organizations and most important, members of oppressed communities to learn and make recommendations about their law and policies around racial discrimination. She also was Special Rapporteur on the issue of systematic rape and sexual slavery practices in armed conflict for the UN Sub-Commission on…
The New York Law Journal covered the remarks of impeachment expert, Cass Sunstein, during his appearance at Fordham Law School on October 15th. Sunstein’s talk centered around the legal process and ramifications of impeachment as it relates to the current impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Just last week, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone wrote in a letter to Democratic leaders in Congress that they took issue with not being afforded the opportunity to review evidence, cross-examine individuals, and subpoena their own witnesses. But Sunstein said, during his remarks at Fordham Law, that the Trump administration isn’t afforded that right during…
Fordham Law School announced today that New York State Solicitor General Barbara D. Underwood is the 2019 recipient of the Fordham-Stein Prize. The Fordham-Stein Prize is awarded annually to a member of the legal profession whose work embodies the highest standards of their legal profession. Prize recipients exemplify outstanding professional conduct, promote the advancement of justice, and bring credit to the profession by emphasizing in the public’s mind the contributions of lawyers to our society and to our democratic system of government. From its inception, the winners of the Prize have been men and women with distinguished careers who reflect…
The Wall Street Journal published the findings of a new report produced by the Fordham Law School Feerick Center for Social Justice titled, Screened Out: The Lack of Access to NYC Screened Program Admissions Criteria. The years-long fact-finding effort spotlights the failure of New York City high schools to make admissions screening rubrics publicly available and of the New York City Department of Education to hold these schools accountable. Selective New York City public high schools are supposed to make it easy for families to see their detailed admission criteria, but only a fraction of schools do so, according to…
Fara Tabatabai ’06 was recognized by The New York Law Journal as a Rising Star lawyer under 40 for her work with Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. Fara Tabatabai’s practice focuses on complex commercial, products liability, securities, and employment litigation and arbitration. She represents U.S., Canadian, European, and Asian clients in a variety of industries and has served as litigation and trial counsel in numerous high-stakes domestic and international disputes. Among other notable cases, she represented Lehman Brothers in a trial against Barclays that resulted in a $5 billion verdict in Lehman’s favor and also represented the European affiliates of Nortel…
Professor Joel Reidenberg provides his expert opinion to TechNewsWorld on why people using Apple’s new “safe browsing” option for Safari should be concerned about their data privacy. Apple offers the following explanation in Safari’s settings section: “Before visiting a website, Safari may send information calculated from the website address to Google Safe Browsing and Tencent Safe Browsing to check if the website is fraudulent.” That should concern consumers, maintained law professor Joel R. Reidenberg, founding academic director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham University School of Law in New York City. “Safe browsing should not only…