Professor Bruce Green provided context to Bloomberg Law on the ruling by the judge presiding over the 2020 Census case denying the Justice Department’s request to change counsel. In denying the government’s request, Furman said the motion was “patently deficient.” The motion provides “no reasons, let alone ‘satisfactory reasons,’ for the substitution of counsel,” he said. … And while not a first, as the president insinuated, the move was extraordinary, according to Fordham ethics professor Bruce Green. In virtually all of the cases in which the federal government asks to substitute counsel, the judge will treat it as a pro forma…
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Fordham Law School is hosting the 11th annual Scales of Justice Academy, a three-week legal education program aimed to help prepare young women for entrance into law school. The current session commenced on July 8, 2019 and was kicked off with an address by the Honorable Janet DiFiore, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the State of New York and introductory remarks by the Honorable La Tia W. Martin, founder of the academy and Leah H. Hill, former associate dean at Fordham University. Judge Martin recognized a need to establish a training and support program to help young…
In a Daily Beast op-ed, Professor Jed Shugerman shares where he feels the Mueller report “failed to get the law, the facts, or even the basics of writing right.” The DOJ’s initial appointment explicitly tasked Mueller with investigating campaign “coordination,” and it is not too much to ask that he get the law of “coordination” right. The report stated that “‘coordination’ does not have a settled definition in federal criminal law. We understood coordination to require an agreement—tacit or express.” However, Congress purposely sought to prevent such narrow interpretations: in 2002, it passed a statute directing that campaign finance regulations “shall…
Fordham Law’s new Legal Education and Access Program (LEAP) was featured by the New York Law Journal for its efforts to focus on “first-generation college students and individuals who would bring racial, economic and religious-based diversity to the profession.” Ten students from eight New York colleges are beginning a Fordham University program today that is designed to promote opportunity and diversity within the legal profession. Known as the Fordham Legal Education and Access Program (LEAP), its goal is to combine legal skills development with experiential opportunities that expose students to key aspects of law, legal institutions, and legal practice at…
The Thirteenth Annual Fordham Law Summer Institute in New York City is taking place from July 8 – 26. This year’s program has 75 participants from some 17 countries around the globe. The Summer Institute begins with an introduction to the U.S. Legal System and offers a survey of the areas of law most important for global attorneys in the 21st Century – from International Arbitration to Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law to Corporations and Mergers & Acquisitions. The program also offers Legal English seminars and special sessions on applying to and preparing for U.S. LL.M. programs. Also included…
The fourth annual Pre-Law Institute in New York City began at Fordham Law School on July 1, drawing 50 participants representing some 30 undergraduate colleges and universities across the country and internationally. The Pre-Law Institute is open to all but is designed primarily for undergraduate students and others who are thinking about attending law school. The program provides an introduction to the U.S. legal system and substantive areas of law that are core to the J.D. curriculum. Faculty members are drawn from Fordham Law School’s full-time and adjunct faculty, and include Judge Denny Chin ’78 of the U.S. Court of…
Professor Tanya Hernández is referenced for a CNN article that discusses the shift in the black community’s willingness to forgive past tone-deaf or racist actions by both white and black public figures. Most commentators portray Harris’ exchange with Biden during the second night of the Democratic debate as a potential game-changer for the Democratic presidential nomination. But Harris dropped a bomb on Biden that’s bigger than politics. She exposed a psychological shift in some parts of the black community that’s been building for years. The old days of black people putting up with questionable leaders because they felt like they…
Fordham Law has launched a new program for college students designed to promote opportunity and diversity within the legal profession. The Fordham Legal Education and Access Program (LEAP) marries legal skills development with experiential opportunities that expose students to key aspects of law, legal institutions, and legal practice at the local, state, and national levels. The first cohort of LEAP students will begin their experience by participating in Fordham’s popular Pre-Law Institute, which begins on Tuesday, July 2, 2019. LEAP seeks to enhance the diversity of the legal profession and the Law School by including underrepresented students from Fordham University…
Professor Constantine Katsoris talked with John Catsimatidis on The Cats Roundtable about his newly published article titled, America is Selling Its Seniors Short, which discusses how recent tax revisions are unfairly impacting seniors. “You delve into the issue a little bit about what causes these two disturbing situations—increasing bankruptcies and depleting your retirement savings—and there’s a lot of causes. Number one there’s politics, there’s inflation, there’s underfunded pensions, there’s rising taxes, there’s poor planning. But hidden within all of this is taxes and there are two taxes particularly that were in the tax cuts and jobs act of last year.…
Rebecca Rubin ’20 won first place in the Family Law Writing Competition of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and Hofstra University’s School of Law with an article on medical-legal partnerships. The Family Law Writing Competition, which has reached its ninth year, is run in partnership with the editorial staff of the Family Court Review. In addition to a $500 cash prize, Rebecca Rubin’s winning paper will also be published in the Family Court Review in the fall. Rubin first wrote the article—entitled Medical-Legal Partnerships: How Legal Services Can Dramatically Improve Health Outcomes—as a final paper for the Poverty…