Professor Bruce Green commented on the unprecedented nature of courts having to set trial dates for defendant who is also a campaigning presidential candidate. “The courts will have to decide how to balance the public interest in having expeditious trials against Trump’s interest and the public interest in his being able to campaign so that the democratic process works.” Read “Trump’s Legal Woes Mount as Trial Dates and Campaign Calendar Collide” in The New York Times.
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Professor Tanya K. Hernández talked with Refinery29 about the colorism and racism Black Latinos contend with. “I saw lots of ‘Brown Lives for Black Lives’ banners and people marching saying ‘We’re Brown, and marching in support of BLM,’ which is a beautiful allyship,” Hernández says. “But Latinos are not just one appearance as lumping us all together as Brown suggests. We are not just in allyship of Black Lives Matter; we are part of Black Lives Matter.” Read “The Problem With Calling All Latines Brown” on Refinery29.
In a The Washington Post op-ed, Fordham Law Professor John Brooks and Georgetown University Law Center Professor Brian Galle suggest that the solution to the Biden administration’s battle for student loan forgiveness lies in revamping existing income-driven repayment plans and automatically enrolling borrowers to remove the administrative roadblocks that keep many from accessing them. Of the 32 million federal borrowers currently in repayment or default, only about one-third — 9 million borrowers — are enrolled in repayment plans that adjust for income such as SAVE. The barrier to entry, once more, is the hassle. Because payments can change each year, the…
Founder and director of #FordhamLaw’s Fashion Law Institute Professor Susan Scafidi appeared on CBS News to discuss the lawsuit against fast-fashion company Shein which includes allegations of copyright infringement and racketeering. Watch “Shein lawsuit accuses fast-fashion site of RICO violations” on CBSNews.com.
MTA Inspector General Office’s Shareema Abel, and Fordham Law’s director of the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center, Adam Shlahet, share tips on closing arguments from their time practicing in the Bronx when Abel was a prosecutor, and Shlahet was a criminal defense attorney with the Legal Aid Society. “After they’re done listening to you, and after they’re done listening to the judge, they’re actually going to have work to do,” Shlahet said. “They need to understand what the evidence means—need to understand the exact issues they have to decide. They need to know what the legal standards are going to…
Professor Deborah Denno joined the podcast Consider This to discuss failures of lethal injection as a method of execution. Listen to “Alabama’s Last Two Executions Failed. They’re Trying Again Next Week” on NPR’s Consider This.
Professor Andrew Kent discusses scenarios for reinstatement for attorneys disbarred for misappropriation in the New Jersey Law Journal. Typically lawyers in other states who have misappropriated funds are allowed to resume practicing if they retake the bar exam or attend continuing legal education classes, Kent said. But he’d like to see such lawyers held to provisions such as mandatory disclosures to clients about past misappropriation and periodic audits of attorney trust accounts. And if the misconduct was related to age-related cognitive issues, mental illness or substance abuse, Kent said, he wants to see those issues addressed before the lawyer is…
Professor Bruce Green appears in The Messenger Politics to discuss how far former president Trump can go with his public criticism of federal prosecutor Jack Smith. “A defendant cannot engage in speech that violates a law because it is defamatory, incites violence, defrauds others, or obstructs justice – because no one can,” said Fordham Law School professor Bruce Green. “But if Mr. Trump wants to insult the prosecutor’s appearance, he almost certainly has a First Amendment right to do that, and the judge is unlikely to try to stop him.” Read “Why Trump Is Free to Call Jack Smith a…
Associate dean for academic affairs, Professor Joseph Landau, and Intellectual Property & Information Law Clinic/Center on Law and Information Policy director, Professor Ron Lazebnik, provide a framework for navigating the convergence of legal technology and legal education in a piece published by the National Law Journal. Naturally, law schools must consider the rules of the road for student use of generative AI, including the primacy of academic integrity in the wake of new technologies. At Fordham, we quickly convened our permanent and adjunct faculty following Open AI’s release of ChatGPT and made critical policy changes so that unauthorized use of…
Professor Deborah Denno appears in an article about the costs of having someone on death row versus the costs of housing someone for life in prison. “It’s public misinformation,” said Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor. “I don’t know how anybody could possibly argue with these statistics or even question them at all. It’s across the board, across the country, different states, but across different times, too, given the length-of-time cost studies conducted.” Read “Let’s be honest about death penalty in Idaho: Revenge killing despite the cost” on YahooNews. Read “Price of death: What we know about execution costs…