Fordham Law School announced today the launch of the Center for Judicial Events & Clerkships (CJEC) led by Professor Daniel J. Capra as faculty director and Suzanne M. Endrizzi ’96 as assistant dean. In April when the School announced the creation of the Fordham Law CJEC it was noted as having two intertwined mandates: judicial engagement and clerkship support. The center will develop innovative ways to engage members of the judiciary in the life of the School. Simultaneously, it will maximize coordination among the many engagements already occurring to enrich student life. It will also build upon existing clerkship successes…
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Fordham Law School’s 46th Annual International Antitrust Law and Policy Conference in New York City, led for the fifth year by Fordham Competition Law Institute Director James Keyte, will take place Thursday-Friday, September 12-13, 2019. The conference will feature topics on the role of big tech in antitrust, antitrust and industrial policy, private litigation around the world, non-horizontal mergers and managing risk in the digital age. Keynote speakers include Makan Delrahim of the U.S. Department of Justice, Cecilio Madero Villarejo of the E.U. Commission, Isabella de Silva of the French Competition Authority, and Joseph Simons of Federal Trade Commission. Speakers…
Professor Jeffrey Colon was cited in a Think Advisor article about changes to watch out for in the U.S. ETF market. 2. Threats to the Tax Efficiency of ETFs The ETF tax efficiency advantage could end because the more popular ETFs become, the more revenue the U.S. Treasury forfeits as a result. Unlike mutual funds, ETFs are not required to distribute capital gains to shareholders when their securities are sold for a profit to meet redemptions or free up cash for new investments. When redeeming — and creating — shares, ETFs use in-kind transactions, which are not considered cash transactions…
David Udell, the Founder and Executive Director of the National Center for Access to Justice at Fordham Law School, provided comment for an ABA article that profiles attorney Tiffany Graves’ work increasing access to legal services in Mississippi and across the country. Then in 2014, Graves became executive director of the state supreme court’s Mississippi Access to Justice Commission. (Disclosure: The author provided pro bono technology support to the commission for an unrelated project while Graves was its director.) While there, she engaged the faith and medical communities to empower a more holistic set of stakeholders engaging justice issues and released…
Founder and academic director of the Fashion Law Institute, Professor Susan Scafidi, talked to the Wall Street Journal about accusations by a former Victoria’s Secret design director who says the lingerie mogul ripped off designs from her current label, Fleur du Mal. Zuccarini, 44, says that on July 1, a customer used the live chat function on Fleur du Mal’s website to share a link to a Victoria’s Secret page offering products that closely resembled the Lily designs. After that, Fleur du Mal continued receiving similar chats, emails and direct messages on social media alerting them to look-alike designs, and before…
Professor Jerry Goldfeder co-authored a Law.com article with Myrna Pérez that details the impacts and consequences of the latest rulings by New York courts concerning limitations on the public’s involvement in elections. The recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court allowing partisan gerrymanders (Rucho v. Common Cause, 139 S.Ct. 2484 (2019)) and the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit holding that members of the electoral college are free to vote their conscience (Baca v. Colorado, — F.3d.— (10th Cir. Aug. 20, 2019)) will each have far-reaching consequences for our elections—and each will be written about…
Adjunct Professor Matthew Gold remarked on a new study that examines the extreme similarities between the Trump Administration’s United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which President Trump has referred to as “the worst trade deal in history.” Comparing the USMCA to existing free trade agreements, researchers found: “The USMCA closely tracks the structure and text of the TPP. 29 out of 30 TPP chapters have equivalents in the USMCA and 72 percent of the articles in the matched USMCA chapters are found in both agreements.” In other words, not only are many of the chapter titles identical,…
Four Fordham Law alumni made Billboard’s 2019 Top Music Lawyers list that includes 113 attorneys at key companies and law firms that are on the front of the music industry’s legal battles and deals. Paul Robinson ’83, Doug Davis ’98, Ilene Farkas ’93, and Adam Zia ’04 were all recognized for their work in areas that span major copyright reform to representing major entertainment clients. Fordham Law School is also listed fourth among Billboard’s Top Music Law Schools. PAUL ROBINSON Executive vp/general counsel, Warner Music Group Fordham University School of Law In his global role for WMG, Robinson, 61, lobbied…
Professor Bruce Green co-authored an article with New York Law School Professor, Rebecca Roiphe, for New York Law Journal that discusses the unorthodox decision by Judge Richard Berman to order a hearing on the prosecutors’ decision to dismiss the indictment against now-deceased defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, and to allow his accusers to speak at that hearing. This is an odd moment for transparency in a criminal case. Normally, if a prosecutor seeks to dismiss an indictment for such an obviously worthy reason, the court would simply grant the request. The judge would not schedule a hearing and he definitely would not…
Alumna Jessica Berman ’02 has been named Deputy Commissioner and EVP of Business Affairs by the National Lacrosse League. Berman was Vice President, Community Development, Culture and Growth at the National Hockey League, as well as Executive Director of the NHL Foundation. In that role she participated in the design and execution of the League’s strategic corporate social responsibility goals, initiatives, policies and programs in the areas of importance to the League, the NHL Clubs, the NHL’s business partners and the hockey community generally, with a particular focus on ensuring the initiatives are properly aligned with the League’s overall objectives…