JCFL Volume XXV Call for Submissions The Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law is now accepting submissions for its 2019-2020 issues! As one of the premier student-edited business law journals in the country, the Journal ranks as the single most-cited specialty journal in banking and finance, and among the top-ten specialty journals in corporations and associations. Academic journals, the financial press, and the U.S. Supreme Court have cited the Journal. The Journal welcomes articles and essays addressing important issues in banking, bankruptcy, corporate governance, capital markets, finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities, and tax law and practice. Text and footnotes…
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The law journal Jotwell examined Law and Neighborhood Names, a paper written by Fordham Law Professor Nestor Davidson and University of Houston Law Center Professor David Fagundes. In it, they investigate how “law both enables and constrains the ability of city residents to claim, name, and often rename their neighborhoods,” and the greater implications this has on urban governance and community relations. Law and Neighborhood Names provides a new perspective on this complex phenomenon. The authors also provide a pragmatically effective set of tools for addressing the injustices that so regularly flow from gentrification. To be sure, gentrification is just one…
Professor John Pfaff’s research was cited in a Daily News article that looks at the role of local district attorneys in addressing the issue of mass incarceration. Less well known is local prosecutors’ outsized role in this system. Only one in 10 criminal cases are prosecuted at the federal level. Federal prisons and jails hold approximately 221,000 people, a figure dwarfed by the more than 1.9 million people held in state prisons and jails. And the rise of mass incarceration has been fueled primarily by local prosecutors, who have immense discretion to pursue criminal charges. Fordham University law professor John…
Professor Abner Greene was consulted for a Bloomberg Law article about a Supreme Court ruling on the registration requirements of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. A divided court said in Gundy v. United States that Congress didn’t violate the non-delegation doctrine when it allowed the attorney general to decide if the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act’s registration requirements should apply to those convicted of sex crimes before the law’s passage. The doctrine bars Congress from transferring its legislative power to another branch of government. Conservatives see the doctrine as a potential bulwark against Congress giving too much power to…
Slate podcast Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick brought on Professors Jed Shugerman and Andrew Kent to discuss recent Supreme Court cases and their award-winning Harvard Law Review article, “Faithful Execution and Article II”. I think one of the challenges we’re kind of laying down is, you can either be an originalist or you can be in favor of super expansive presidential power but it’s very very hard, if not impossible, to be both. – Professor Andrew Kent Listen to full podcast.
Professor Constantine Katsoris wrote an op-ed for The Hill on how state and local taxes are unfairly impacting seniors and what changes need to be made in order to assist the elderly during their declining years. Politicians frequently boast in headlines and on cable news about their efforts at tax reform, but too often we short change our seniors at the expense of funding varying pet projects of our representatives. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, for example, raised the standard deduction with great fanfare, however, it was accompanied by placing a cap of $10,000 on the itemized deductibility of…
Professor Kimani Paul-Emile talked with Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford on the June episode of the podcast, Ethics Talk, produced by the AMA Journal of Ethics. In it, they discuss Professor Paul-Emile’s recently published paper, How Should Organizations Support Trainees in the Face of Patient Bias? This month on Ethics Talk, Dr Fatima Cody Stanford discusses a delicate tension between preserving relationships with patients who express bias and preserving one’s own dignity, and Dr Kimani Paul-Emile describes how organizations can support clinicians who experience bias, discrimination, or harassment. Listen to full podcast.
Fordham Law professor and retired Navy captain and maritime law expert, Lawrence Brennan, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on the dispute over whether an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone shot down by a missile was actually in Iranian airspace. The question of whether the drone was hit in international airspace rests in part on a longstanding dispute between the U.S. and Iran over Tehran’s claim of territorial sovereignty over the waters and airspace up to 12 miles off its coastline, said Lawrence B. Brennan, a retired Navy captain and maritime law expert at Fordham University in New York. The…
Professor Lawrence Brennan was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article comparing the Trump administration claims that blame Iran for several tank explosions to the U.S.’s involvement in the “tanker war” of the 1980’s. The United States and other nations entered the fringes of the conflict when the warring neighbors launched attacks on international oil tankers transiting the strategic waterway — at that time, the route for most crude reaching the rest of the world. The U.S. Navy was among several forces that began to escort the vessels, clear mines floating in the sea and patrol the shores in search…
Fordham Law alumna Irena Royzman ’03 has joined Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP as a partner in their growing intellectual property litigation practice in New York. She joins them after about 15 years of representing some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP. Irena Royzman, who has litigated patent and trademark infringement matters under the Hatch-Waxman Act and Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act for companies like Janssen Biotech Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., joined Kramer Levin as a partner on June 10 after about 15 years at Patterson Belknap.…