Fordham Law School announced that Pamela Bookman, Courtney Cox and Sepehr Shahshahani have been appointed to the faculty. The three professors will begin teaching classes in the fall term. “We enthusiastically welcome Pamela, Courtney and Sepehr to Fordham Law School,” said Fordham Law Dean Matthew Diller. “They are all extremely accomplished and bring diverse backgrounds, intellectual rigor and exceptional teaching skills that will benefit our students and the entire law school community.” Associate Professor Pamela Bookman comes to the law school from Temple University Beasley School ofLaw, where she was an assistant professor. Prior to entering academia, Bookman was counsel…
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Leslie Mauro Connolly ’92 of Harter Secrest & Emery will be honored at this year’s 2019 Excellence in Law Awards in the category for Top Women in Law. “This year’s Excellence in Law honorees are exceptional. Not only are they professionally accomplished, but they are committed to making a difference in their community,” said Suzanne Fischer-Huettner, publisher of The Daily Record. “The honorees, in the categories of Top Women in Law, Up & Coming Attorneys, and Unsung Legal Heroes, uphold the highest legal standards and improve communities throughout Western New York. It is an honor for The Daily Record to recognize…
Professor John Feerick interviewed former Vice President Dan Quayle about how he planned with President George H.W. Bush for the possibility of Bush becoming incapacitated in office. Such situations are addressed by the 25th Amendment, which Feerick helped draft in the 1960s. Before Bush and Quayle, presidents and vice presidents did not engage in extensive planning for the amendment’s use. An excerpt of the interview appears in Feerick’s new article in the Indiana Law Review on the history of presidential succession and impeachment. The article is adapted from a speech that Feerick gave at a symposium at the Indiana Statehouse in March…
A group of Fordham Law students from the Securities Litigation and Arbitration Clinic traveled to Washington, D.C. in early April to participate in an SEC Investor Advocacy Clinic Summit organized by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Joined by their supervisor Prof. Paul Radvany, the group attended the one-day summit with more than 60 fellow students and clinic directors from 10 Law School investor advocacy clinics from across the country. In the morning, they participated in a session on ways to reduce fraud against retail investors; in the afternoon, they made a presentation recommending changes to ensure that brokers made…
Professor John Pfaff is quoted in an Elle article profiling CNN political analyst and former FBI agent Asha Rangappa. At the same time, though, marginalized communities have catalyzed a public reckoning over institutional failures like police brutality, mass incarceration, and voter suppression. When I ask how someone who understands racial disparities in sentencing can put their faith in the impartial machinery of justice, Rangappa protests that I’m bringing up an issue related to bad policy or individual judges, not the justice system itself. During the Trump presidency, she says, the justice system is “the only branch that’s doing its job.”…
Fordham Law was ranked number 23 on the list of the top 25 best law schools for Black students in this year’s Lawyers of Color, Black Student’s Guide to Law Schools & Firms. Law schools were evaluated based on 10 criteria that included the school’s bar passage rate and the percentage of jobs law students received that required a JD degree. A bonus was calculated for law schools with Black deans, of which there are a record 29. A quarter of law schools have more than 10 percent Black faculty. This increased diversity is due to increased mentoring and training of prospective law…
A Fordham Law Review article by Drexel University law professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba was cited in an article published in Law360 about the use of algorithms in the civil justice system. According to a forthcoming Fordham Law Review article by Drexel University law professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba, the uneven success and application of lawsuits demonstrates that the best way to ensure transparency is legislation, not litigation. Her paper, “Access to Algorithms,” calls on transparency advocates to consider not just affected individuals but rather “the affected public.” “The people who are directly affected by these kinds of tools — whether it’s risk assessment or Medicaid…
Professor Jed Shugerman’s recent New York Times Op-Ed on the Mueller report is cited and analyzed by Josh Marshall in an article published by Talking Points Memo. I wanted to flag your attention to a really important opinion column that appeared yesterday in the Times. It’s by Jed Shugerman, a law professor at Fordham. Shugerman gets into a number of points about the collusion portion of the Mueller Report that I’ve been trying to make sense of myself. To put it more specifically, I’ve been trying to make sense of the disconnect between the Report itself and its media portrayal. Trump’s campaign didn’t…
Adjunct Professor Joel Cohen wrote a piece for the New York Law Journal on record-keeping when it comes to privileged conversations between attorneys and their clients. But, I digress. The real issue is note taking. Now, I suspect that the president was at least partly correct about McGahn–McGahn knew what and who he was dealing with. Accordingly, he wanted his recollections–that is, the “record”–to be precise, especially if he was ever called upon. But remember, in fairness to McGahn, he was a lawyer for the “presidency,” not the president, and creating a record for the White House was indeed a…
Professor James J. Brudney was quoted in a Washington Post exposé that details the accounts of former Trump National Golf Club Westchester employees who say they experienced numerous labor law violations during their employment. In interviews, six former Trump workers told The Washington Post that they felt systematically cheated because they were undocumented. Some told The Post about being denied promotions, vacation days and health insurance, which were offered to legal employees. The same pattern of unpaid labor was also described by a former manager. … On a few occasions, he said, he and his son would work about 60 hours…