Professor Karen Greenberg provided her expert opinion in a Politifact article that looks at President Trump’s statement saying that he would accept information on an election opponent from a foreign government. Trump’s controversial statement came after Stephanopoulos asked if he would alert the FBI in the event that a foreign government like Russia offered dirt on an election opponent, or if he would take the information. “I think maybe you do both,” Trump said. “I think you might want to listen. There’s nothing wrong with listening.” “It’s not an interference,” he added. “They have information. I think I’d take it.”…
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Professor Andrew Kent comments in a Mother Jones article on whether Kamala Harris and other Democratic presidential candidates are going too far by calling for charges to be pressed against President Trump for obstruction of justice once he is no longer a sitting president. Back in 2016, it was candidate Trump who broke the post-Watergate norms that wall off the Justice Department from the politics of the White House when he made “Lock her up!” chants a feature of his campaign rallies and suggested in a debate that if he won, Hillary Clinton would go to prison. Those conventions have…
Professor Susan Scafidi, founder and academic director of Fordham Law School’s Fashion Law Institute was quoted in a Daily Beast article about accusations of cultural appropriation and plagiarism against Carolina Herrera creative director, Wes Gordon. The secretary’s letter was more than just the latest entry in the long, exhaustive database covering fashion houses accused of cultural appropriation. Per The Guardian, Frausto went on to write, “This is a matter of ethical consideration that obliges us to speak out and bring an urgent issue to the UN’s sustainable development agenda: promoting inclusion and making those who are invisible visible.” … “Anything that…
Fordham Law’s Leitner Center for International Law and Justice is listed in The Tibet Post among the group of 73 NGO’s and human rights organizations that have collectively called for Hong Kong to withdraw a bill that would allow China to extradite journalists and their sources. Paris-based international press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF), along with 73 other NGOs, urges Hong Kong to abandon the bill that would allow China to extradite journalists and their sources. In a letter sent on June 6th to Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of…
Professor John Pfaff was quoted in a New York Times piece about the extent to which racial bias affects the decision of prosecutors to press charges. In recent weeks, the office has begun by removing details — like race and names — from police reports before turning those cases over to prosecutors to decide whether to press charges. Starting in July, the office intends to employ computer software designed by Stanford University researchers to redact a suspect’s race and name, and that of victims. Also removed will be locations where crimes were said to have been committed. The only information…
Professor Karen Greenberg provides her expert opinion on an article in The New Yorker that details a controversial asylum case involving a young mother from El Salvador who was kidnapped by guerrillas, and the broader implications its decision will have on immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. But in June, 2018, the Board of Immigration Appeals, which reviews rulings made in immigration court, issued a two-to-one decision denying Ana’s most recent request to stay in the U.S. The judges, considering Ana’s captivity, decided that, because she had worked for the guerrillas, even under duress, she was not their victim but…
Fordham Law alumnus and current Seton Hall Professor David White ’02 was interviewed for a New Jersey Law Journal article. In it, he discusses the importance of practical learning and mentorship and points to former Fordham Law Dean John D. Feerick ’61 as a mentor who greatly impacted his outlook on being a lawyer. David White is director of the Seton Hall University School of Law Conflict Management Program and professor of legal practice at the school. After joining the school in 2010, White helped launch: the Seton Hall Consumer Arbitration Practicum in tandem with the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office; a…
In his ethics and criminal practice column for the New York Law Journal, Adjunct Professor Joel Cohen looks at abusive behavior toward opposing counsel in litigation. The Rules Many of the cases concerning aggressive, or abusive behavior toward counsel arise in the civil context, although the results would seem to be the same. In the criminal realm, prosecutors are ethically bound to “develop and maintain courteous and civil working relationships with judges and defense counsel, and should cooperate with them in developing solutions to address ethical, scheduling, or other issues that may arise in particular cases or generally in the…
Visiting Professor, Wojciech Sadurski, wrote an op-ed in EuroNews about his views on Poland’s upcoming parliamentary elections in October 2019. In response to your letter of 31 May, let me inform you that I will neither be willing nor able to vote for your party in the next parliamentary elections. My reasons divide into two categories: firstly, those having to do with what the current Polish presidency, government and parliamentary majority, all under your direct control, have already done to Poland since 2015, and secondly, those based on my reasonable predictions about what you and your party intend to pursue…
On June 10, the New York City Bar Association (NYCBA) presented the Henry L. Stimson Medal to four U.S. Attorneys, two of whom are Fordham Law School graduates. Laura D. Mantell ’97, chief of the Eastern District’s asset forfeiture unit, and Joseph N. Cordaro ’03, senior counsel in the Southern District’s Civil Division, were recognized for their “integrity, fairness, courage, and public service.” Delivering the keynote remarks for the evening was another Fordham Law School graduate, Hon. Cathy Seibel ’85 of the Southern District of New York. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Laura Mantell, Nicole Boeckmann, Joseph Cordaro and Michael Ferrara will each receive…