Adjunct Professor Kenneth Montgomery provided his thoughts to City & State New York on the resistance that Tiffany Cabán will face within the DA’s office if elected as the next Queens District Attorney. Several former prosecutors in the Queens and Brooklyn district attorneys’ offices said that Cabán’s transition will include certain turnover within the office. “I’m sure a bunch of people there who have been there their entire careers, who never anticipated or thought about new leadership – particularly leadership like this – they’re going to look to get out,” said Kenneth Montgomery, a former assistant prosecutor in the Kings…
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Professor Jed Shugerman wrote an op-ed published in the New York Times on the need for further clarification when it comes to campaign finance laws. After the president’s cavalier comments, Ellen Weintraub, chairwoman of the F.E.C., tried to bring some clarity to the issue. “Let me make something 100 percent clear to the American public and anyone running for public office,” she said. “It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election.” The problem is that she didn’t clarify anything. What is “anything of value”? Any…
A Vox article cites Professor John Pfaff’s research for an article about Tiffany Cabán’s win in the Democratic primary in the Queens district attorney race and what more progressive prosecutors will mean for criminal justice reform. Tiffany Cabán seems poised to win in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in the Queens district attorney race — potentially giving a big victory to criminal justice reformers who want to end the war on drugs and mass incarceration. The Queens race may seem like a small local news story. But it’s not — Queens has more people than 15 states and Washington, DC, so the…
Professor Matthew Gold was quoted in a CNN Business article about what is at stake for Big Tech companies when it comes to President Trump’s planned meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Japan. The trade dispute between the United States and China has disrupted a lot companies. The stakes for tech are particularly high. “Everything in the trade war is hurting us as well as the Chinese,” said Matt Gold, a law professor at Fordham University and former trade negotiator. … Technically, trade negotiations and national security measures like the export ban are separate. But…
Professor Karen Greenberg, Director of the Center on National Security, is quoted in a Newsday article detailing the circumstances of a lighter than expected sentence delivered to Sinmyah Amera Ceasar for helping ISIS recruit prospects in the U.S. Prosecutors wanted Sinmyah Amera Ceasar jailed for 30 to 50 years, but in a sign terror cases may not inspire the fear they used to, a Brooklyn federal judge on Wednesday tilted instead toward rehabilitation for the 24-year-old after an extraordinary three-day hearing this week featuring testimony from terror and threat experts along with psychologists who described horrific childhood abuse. “You’re asking…
Founder and academic director of the Fashion Law Institute, Professor Susan Scafidi, provided her expert opinion to the HuffPost Life article that explores legal questions around workplace dress codes that differ between genders. “A dress code could require women to wear bras in theory, but only if it was equally expensive or burdensome for men to do so,” Scafidi said. “A more modern dress code would probably say something like, ‘You have to cover the area between the collarbones and the knees, or the upper torso below the collarbones, and nipples may not be visible.’ Technically, that would apply to…
Robert Mascola has been appointed as the new senior director of compliance programs. Mascola will be responsible for all of the law school’s compliance education, including overseeing the compliance curriculum for in-person J.D., LL.M., and Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.) degrees, as well as planning and executing other compliance-focused programs and events. He will also manage the new online M.S.L. corporate compliance program launching in the fall. “We are excited to welcome Robert to the Fordham Law community,” said Matthew Diller, Dean of Fordham Law School. “He has accumulated a wealth of knowledge in compliance from his time as…
The Westchester, Rockland, Putnam news journal, Lohud, published an in-depth profile on freshman New York State senator and Fordham Law alumna, Alessandra Biaggi ’12 that details her journey to the state Senate. “Our job is to represent the people and the people need to have the knowledge to be involved and to come through the door. And for so many years, Albany has functioned as a place where it’s an insider’s game,” said Biaggi. “I feel like it’s now my responsibility to keep everyone informed whether that’s just sharing a video with my constituents, getting women off the sidelines to…
U.S. Southern District Court Judge and former Fordham Law faculty member, Deborah Batts, came in at number 31 on City & State New York’s 2019 Pride Power 100 list. The list honors New York’s most powerful members of the LGBTQ community. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1994, Batts became the first openly LGBTQ judge on the federal bench. In 1984, she joined the Fordham University School of Law as its first African American faculty member. She has presided over several high-profile cases, including a lawsuit against former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, who was accused of failing to inform…
Professor Joel Reidenberg was quoted in The Washington Post on the challenges involved with regulating the world of data brokers who buy and sell the personal information of millions. Lawmakers in Koloski’s home state are at the forefront of a national movement aiming to shine a light on companies such as Amerilist — data brokers that buy and sell the personal information of millions of Americans with whom they have no direct relationship. A state law passed last year required all businesses that trade data on Vermont’s residents to register publicly and share some basic information about how they operate.…