Author: Simone Somekh

The Peggy Browning Fund has awarded a 10-week summer fellowship to Fordham Law student Maura Moosnick ’21. Moosnick will spend her fellowship working at Gladstein, Reif & Meginniss, LLP in New York. Each year, the Peggy Browning Fund sponsors about 80 summer fellowships for law students at labor-related organizations around the country. The Fund’s mission is to “educate and inspire the next generation of law students to become advocates for workplace justice.” Moosnick, one of this year’s winners, was born and raised in New York City. She graduated in 2016 from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. As…

Fordham Law alumna Adela Hurtado ’17 was one of 100 delegates selected from thousands of applicants to attend this year’s edition of the Yenching Global Symposium, which took place in Beijing, China, in late March. Delegates were awarded with an all-expense paid trip to Beijing to attend the event. The Yenching Global Symposium is an interdisciplinary conference on China held annually at the Peking University of Beijing, the oldest university in the country. During the three-day event, delegates from all around the world attend lectures, panel discussions, workshops, and cultural excursions. This year, the theme of the symposium was “Women:…

Adjunct Professor James Goodale spoke with WNYC’s On The Media about the Assange indictment, Trump’s push to pardon war criminals, the Navy spying on reporters, and how to wage a civilized war. It means that the journalist who tries to get classified information is really now under a cloud because he can be tried under criminal laws for just gathering information so that amounts, as you say, to criminalizing the journalistic process. Listen to full podcast.

Daniel Katter ’20 has won the 2019 edition of the Hartrick Scholar Writing Competition of the Institute for Energy Law. In addition to receiving a $2,500 prize, the Fordham Law student was also invited to attend the Institute’s 70th Annual Oil & Gas Law Conference in February. Katter’s winning paper, entitled Two Birds, One Stone: How Incidental Take Permits Can Strengthen Bird Conservation and Alternative Energy, was originally inspired by an article published in the New Yorker about the dangers that wind turbines pose to birds. After reading the article, Katter started thinking about ways to expand wind power while…

Fordham Law student Elliot Fink ’20 wrote an op-ed for Environmental Health News on the findings from his recent paper published in the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal titled, Dirty Little Secrets: Fracking Fluids, Dubious Trade Secrets, Confidential Contamination, and The Public Health Information Vacuum. My study examined two viable solutions to repair trade secret law and fix this issue of fracking fluid chemical disclosure. The first is a new law adopted by Montana in 2017 which required the state’s Board of Oil and Gas Conservation (BOGC) to substantiate each trade secret claimed by fracking companies. Even…

Professor Andrew Kent spoke to Bloomberg’s June Grasso about the new charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that allege he violated the espionage act by conspiring to obtain and disclose classified information. Does this establish a precedent? I take it that that’s one of the things that news organizations and defenders of the first amendment are worried about. Again, it depends a bit on what the government proves and what a court requires the government to prove. A court could interpret the statute to require a showing that Assange acted with some bad purpose to harm the United States, harm…

Professor Howard Erichson is quoted in a Law360 article that profiles Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s fight to protect consumers in class action lawsuit settlements. While Brnovich’s interventions might have earned him some enemies in the plaintiffs bar, others in the class action sector say monitoring settlements definitely falls under the umbrella of an attorney general’s responsibilities, and they hope Brnovich’s work is the start of a trend. Professor Howard M. Erichson of the Fordham University School of Law, whose research focuses on settlements, said the consumer protection responsibilities of attorneys general jibe with Brnovich’s activism. “It’s an act of consumer protection…

Gina Reif Ilardi ’05, the co-chair of DLA Piper’s National Advertising team, was named to the New York Law Journal’s inaugural list of New York Trailblazers. The editors recognized Reif Ilardi for her representation of such notable clients as Chrysler and its promotion of the installation of Apple’s Carplay app in all of their vehicles, and also her work with Chance the Rapper, the Backstreet Boys and their music publishers for a Super Bowl ad for PepsiCo’s Doritos brand. Reif Ilardi concentrates her practice on sports marketing, entertainment marketing, e-commerce and branded entertainment, preparing endorsement agreements and sponsorship agreements, implementing…

Adjunct Professor Matthew Gold appeared on Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia to discuss the trade war between the U.S. and China, and how being part of the TPP could help negotiations and the rise of China as a superpower. The TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership served many important purposes for the United States. One of the biggest is that it really put China in a corner and it gave the United States great leverage for future trade negotiations with China. It was made of twelve countries, all of which touched the Pacific, but it was also designed for more countries who touched the…

Adjunct Professor Matthew Gold appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” to discuss ongoing trade talks between the U.S. and China, and who stands to lose. I see these tariffs going past 2021. I think President Trump has dug himself into a hole here and I don’t see any clear way of him climbing out of it between now and after the re-election. I think if we get a different president in, in 2021, they will probably roll back all of these retaliatory tariffs very quickly. I think if President Trump is president after 2021 I think he’s still going…