On May 3, Fordham Law School and the McGannon Communication Research Center honored Virginia Eubanks for her recent book, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. Eubanks, an associate professor of political science at the University of Albany, spoke with Ifeoma Ajunwa, assistant professor of labor and employment law at Cornell University and Cathy O’Neil, a data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, in a panel discussion moderated by Fordham Law Professor Olivier Sylvain. In recent years, we’ve accepted that algorithms make simple suggestions for us—friends…
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Professor Sean J. Griffith wrote a piece for the Yale Journal on Regulation concerning governance through guidance. Inhabitants of the administrative state who are concerned about the rule of law may be comforted by the fact that there are rules about making rules. The Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) requires regulatory agencies to expose prospective rules to democratic processes, most notably the notice and comment period, before they become binding. “Guidance” – regulatory pronouncements issued in the form of advisory manuals, policy statements, interpretative letters, FAQs, and so on – is exempted from these processes. Yet guidance often has the same…
Fordham Law Alum and Adjunct Professor Sean R. Weissbart ’07 has joined Blank Rome LLP as a partner in its Tax, Benefits, and Private Client group per an announcement made by Blank Rome LLP in CityBizList. Rich and Sean bring extensive experience in estate planning services, including probate and estate administration; trust administration; estate and trust litigation; nonprofit matters; matrimonial matters; and domestic and cross-border income, estate, and gift taxation. “We are thrilled to welcome Rich, Sean, and the team to our Firm,” said Grant S. Palmer, Blank Rome’s Managing Partner and CEO. “They have built strong reputations as respected trusts…
Fordham Law student, Shaoul Sussman ’19, was featured in a New York Magazine article talking about his recent paper, in which he argues that Amazon’s business practices violate antitrust laws. With its ever-growing dominance of online retail, Amazon has long drawn accusations that it is a monopoly — or at least a monopoly in waiting. When the company acquired Whole Foods last year, that scrutiny only intensified. But maybe “monopoly” isn’t quite the right word for what Amazon is up to. Shaoul Sussman, a Fordham University law student, has a different perspective. In a paper for the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement and in…
Professor Deborah Denno wrote a piece for the New England Journal of Medicine on the medical community’s involvement in lethal injection as a method of execution. Sourced from The New England Journal of Medicine N ENGL J MED 380;19 NEJM.ORG MAY 9, 2019 On April 1, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Missouri death-row inmate’s claim that executing him using the state’s lethal-injection protocol would violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” because blood-filled tumors in his head, neck, and throat could rupture and cause him to choke and suffer “excruciating” and “prolonged pain.”(1)…
Professor Lawrence Brennan is quoted in a Washington Post article discussing the administration’s decision to deploy an aircraft carrier and Air Force bombers to counter Iranian threats. The proposal to send the USS Abraham Lincoln and its associated escort ships and Air Force bombers to the region originated with U.S. Central Command, which oversees operations in the region, a defense official said. The official was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity. Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, who recently took over leadership of Centcom, has visited the Middle East several times recently. McKenzie submitted the request Sunday, and it was…
Professor and former Fordham Law Dean, John D. Feerick ’61, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article on David Blake’s quest to convince the American voters that they should reclaim their democratic right to elect the vice president of the United States. In an era of political tectonic shifts from President Trump shaking up White House protocols to Democratic presidential candidates calling for ending the Electoral College, Mr. Blake is aiming to spark a change to two centuries of precedent for the way vice presidents are elected. “We’re living through a time when a lot of norms are getting thrown…
Fordham Law alumna Gina DelChiaro ’05 was featured in a Law360 article on Akerman LLP’s announcement that DelChiaro will be the firm’s new head of pro bono projects. Gina DelChiaro, who is joining the firm as a partner and was previously with Lawyers Alliance for New York, will work with Akerman and its 700 attorneys to see how they can best serve the needs of the communities they call home, according to the firm’s April 25 announcement. … While at Lawyers Alliance, she also organized a network of pro bono providers in 15 cities throughout the United States that were…
Professor Robin A. Lenhardt is featured in an Insider NJ article announcing that she has joined the NJ Institute for Social Justice’s Board of Trustees. Professor Lenhardt and Reverend Adkins-Jones join a dedicated team of highly respected leaders committed to advancing progressive solutions to the greatest social and racial justice challenges of our time. Professor Lenhardt is a Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Center on Race, Law and Justice at Fordham University School of Law. She specializes in legal matters involving race, family, and citizenship. A former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer…
Professor Jeffrey Colon was quoted in a Bloomberg article discussing questionable trade practices intended to dodge taxes. Why would someone make such a large bet—five times bigger than any previous transaction in the fund—and then reverse it so quickly? It turns out that transfusions like these are tax dodges, carried out by the world’s largest asset managers with help from investment banks. The beneficiaries are the long-term investors in exchange-traded funds. Such trades, nicknamed “heartbeats,” are rampant across the $4 trillion U.S. ETF market, with more than 500 made in the past year. One ETF manager calls them the industry’s “dirty…