Law360 interviewed Fordham Law alumnus Norm Ashkenas ’92 about his twenty-year career in compliance and his current position as chief compliance officer for Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC and Fidelity Personal and Workplace Advisors LLC. You’re a graduate of Fordham University School of Law. Are you involved in Fordham’s new compliance program? I’m not currently involved, but I’m certainly supportive of those efforts. I think it demonstrates where compliance has gone in the last 20, 25 years. There were no such programs then, and now there are schools building them. How has the field or philosophy of compliance changed since you…
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The publication CyLab from the Carnegie Mellon University Security and Privacy Institute reported on a $1.2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Fordham University, and Penn State University to develop a “privacy assistant” tool. Professor Joel Reidenberg at the Center of Law and Information Policy (CLIP) at Fordham University will act as one of the principal investigators on the project. The goal is for the privacy assistant to not only automatically read the text of privacy policies, but to also be equipped with general knowledge of common data collection and…
Adjunct Professor Joel Cohen wrote a piece for Law.com that looks at how John Sexton, President Emeritus of New York University, has approached offensive campus speech while protecting academic freedom and open dialogue. Sexton, as he tells us, made a choice when he was named NYU’s president—rather than opine on every issue he was asked to publicly comment about (from Iraq to ARod to the Washington Square Park dog run), he chose, instead, to publicly opine on nothing, unless it was specifically related to the mission of the university. He even refused to join other law school deans in signing…
Professor and former U.S. Navy captain, Lawrence Brennan, appeared on Al Jazeera Inside Story to discuss sub-standard regulations and unlawful practices that often accompany the practice known as Flag of Convenience in which commercial ship owners register their vessels with a foreign country. I think there’s no dispute that the United States has encouraged Panama, Liberia, the Marshall Islands, and maybe others to take appropriate actions to ships that are engaged in improper and unlawful conduct such as smuggling, trafficking drugs, violating sanctions, such as was done in the early 19th century by the U.S. and British navy in fighting…
Professor Lawrence Brennan was quoted for a BBC article on the benefits and risks of unmanned commercial shipping. For Lawrence Brennan, a retired US navy captain and adjunct professor of admiralty and maritime law at Fordham University School of Law, all these virtues of uncrewed cargo ships come with certain caveats. Ships with no sailors mean no risk to human life from fires or other hazards at sea. No-one needs to recruit staff, pay them, keep them trained or guard against unlicensed crew. The boats can go anywhere. But, in Prof Brennan’s view, the first Achilles heel of unmanned shipping…
Professor Howard Erichson was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article regarding a major set back in the tentative $44 million settlement for the sexual-misconduct lawsuits pending against Harvey Weinstein. After lawyers in May reached a tentative $44 million deal to settle all sexual-misconduct lawsuits pending against ex-Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, two alleged victims said they wanted out, appearing to scuttle an agreement roughly a year in the making. … The proposed agreement to address these two women—who could still reverse course before the deal is completed—illustrates the difficulty of reaching what are known as global settlements, where plaintiffs with…
Professor Abner S. Greene, Leonard F. Manning Professor of Law, remembers his time clerking (1987-1989) for Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. I met Justice Stevens in July of 1986, when he invited me to the Court to interview for a clerkship with him. I recall three main things about that interview — he was incredibly kind and unpretentious; we talked about his opinion in a case the Court had just decided (Bowsher v. Synar); and we talked about our beloved Cubs (him) and Mets (me). He had a baseball on his desk autographed by members of the Cubs team.…
Professor Lawrence Brennan, a retired Navy captain and maritime law expert, was quoted in a CNS News article on E.U. efforts to save the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. “The fact that the U.S. is around 25 percent of the global economy essentially means that INSTEX or any ‘special purpose vehicle’ is merely lip service.” Lawrence Brennan, adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, also suggested INSTEX may not work in easing tensions. “Iran stated that the European nations must do more to guarantee trade and investment dividends it was due to receive in return for U.N.-monitored…
Professor Howard Erichson was quoted in a Wall Street Pro Bankruptcy article on the conflict of interest in law firm Weil Gotshal’s representation of Insys Therapeutics Inc. and its executives in multiple lawsuits. While one team of lawyers at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP was guiding opioid maker Insys Therapeutics Inc. through a thicket of legal and financial troubles, others at the firm were defending a former Insys sales director against federal racketeering charges in Boston. Now Insys is in bankruptcy, former sales chief Richard Simon has been convicted, and Weil Gotshal is still representing both the company, which helped…
Professor Deborah Denno is quoted in Bloomberg Law discussing the Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’ strong opposition to the death penalty. Stevens was an evidence-based thinker who relied on statistics and sophisticated research to support his arguments while also couching the numbers with a passion and eloquence that underscored their significance, said Deborah Denno, law professor at Fordham University. … After Baze he would expound further in speeches and talks in which he highlighted the numbers of exonerations of innocent inmates, the high cost of prosecuting capital cases, the lack of the death penalty’s benefit relative to the reduction of harm,…