Law360 reported that on May 30 Barnes & Thornburg announced that Fordham Law alumnus Charles “Chuck” G. La Bella ’78 has joined the firm as counsel. La Bella also joined Barnes & Thornburg after working for the Justice Department for more than two decades, serving as a U.S. attorney in both the Southern District of New York and the Southern District of California. From 2010 to 2016, La Bella was also the deputy chief of the DOJ’s Fraud Section, where he oversaw national white collar investigations and helped convict more than 40 defendants in the largest fraud case in Nevada’s…
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The Fordham Environmental Law Review was cited in a Huffington Post article about a new series of legislative bills being considered that would replace the Riker’s jail facility with a solar farm and wastewater treatment facility. The New York City Council is preparing to consider a trio of bills that would set the stage to convert the infamously violent jail complex on Rikers Island into a solar farm and wastewater treatment facility. The bills mark what Queens Councilman Costa Constantinides, whose district lies just south of the jail complex, described as a bid to not only ensure the 400-acre island…
Fordham Law professor and Harvard Law alum, Jennifer Gordon, took part in a panel discussion at a Harvard Law event honoring labor and civil rights activist, Dolores Huerta. Today Huerta is the president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, which, according to its website, is “a community benefit organization that organizes at the grassroots level, engaging and developing natural leaders.” Among her many honors are the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. The day began with a morning multidisciplinary panel on the problems facing the U.S. food system, moderated by O’Brien and featuring Sara Bleich, Ph.D.…
Professor Bruce Green was quoted in a Law360 article about the controversy surrounding a proposed amendment to a Virginia state ethics rule concerning evidence disclosure. The U.S. Department of Justice is lining up with state prosecutors across Virginia to squash a novel ethics rule that would require them to highlight defense-friendly evidence in criminal case files. The controversy over a proposed amendment to state Rule 3.8, which outlines the special duties of prosecutors, is focused on a scant few words prosecutors say will force them to do the work of opposing counsel and decide how each piece of evidence might…
Professor Cheryl Bader, a former Assistant US Attorney, provides her legal opinion to NBC New York on the discovery process in a high profile case that has resurfaced from the late 1990’s involving a violent armored car robbery. After spending more than two decades in prison, a Queens felon says he has obtained a document that could help exonerate him. Robert Majors, one of three men found guilty in a violent 1997 armored car robbery, says prosecutors cheated during his two trials — by hiding a hand-written statement from a police informant who named an alternate suspect. The Queens District…
On Friday, June 7, Professors Andrew Kent, Ethan J. Leib and Jed Shugerman were named the winners of the Twelfth Annual Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law by the American Constitution Society at their 2019 National Convention. They were recognized for their paper Faithful Execution and Article II (Harvard Law Review June 2019) in the Lawyer Category. Fellow honorees include Bryan Stevenson of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project and Amaha Kassa of African Communities Together (ACT). The Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law is in honor of Judge Cudahy. His distinguished contributions to the fields of regulatory…
A Law Technology Today article about the potential of legal tech and e-discovery to diversify the legal profession cited a Fordham Law Review statistic on the disparity between male and female lawyers that ultimately make partner. The legal field has come a long way in recent years. However, there are many areas where it lags, primarily in diversity. Following natural sciences and dentistry, the American Bar Association finds lawyers are one of the least diverse groups of professionals. Progress has been made in recent years to diversify the field. In the United States, racial and ethnic minority groups constitute approximately…
Fordham Law’s Professor Kimani Paul-Emile accepted the prestigious John Hope Franklin Prize at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association on May 30 in Washington, D.C. She received the award for her article “Blackness as Disability?” published last year in the Georgetown Law Journal. The John Hope Franklin Prize is awarded each year to recognize “exceptional scholarship in the field of Race, Racism and the Law.” It is named after John Hope Franklin, a professor of history and law known for his work on racial inequality in the United States. Professor Paul-Emile, who specializes in the areas of…
On June 4, Professor Carl Minzner joined the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission for a congressional hearing hosted by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs titled “Tiananmen at 30: Examining the Evolution of Repression in China.” The intention of the hearing was to “review the events in China in 1989, the aspirations of the ‘Tiananmen generation,’ and the censorship and lack of accountability by the Chinese government.” “Then came 1989. Chinese leaders were put to the test. Do you allow the forces that you yourself unleashed begin to fundamentally reshape your political system or do you revert to…
Professor Carl Minzner is mentioned in a Washington Post article regarding his study of the post-Tiananmen regime in China and the long term impacts 30 years after Tiananmen Square. The Communist Party reshuffled the top leadership, following the suppression of dissidents in Beijing and other major cities. Many liberal reformers were removed, replaced by conservatives. Many political reforms, such as introducing more intraparty competition, ended. In one study, Fordham legal scholar Carl Minzner and I show that the post-Tiananmen regime in China has become more repressive, reflected in the heightened power of police chiefs and skyrocketing police spending. Over the…