Professor John Pfaff’s research is cited in a closer look at how Americans are voting when it comes to crime and safety. But, as Shenker-Osorio reminds us, to win elections candidates have to engage the base and persuade the middle. They don’t have to win over everyone. We already know from Fordham law professor John Pfaff’s research that communities of color most directly affected by violence and crime are the ones most eager to support a nuanced and multifaceted approach to safety that focuses on making key quality of life investments. As he wrote: “The desire to think differently is…
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Director of Graduate Admissions, Martin D. Slavens, shares advice on what to consider when becoming a student again after years of full-time employment. Read “Becoming a full-time student again after years of employment can be a challenge, so forward planning is key” in LLM Guide.
Two lawyers face potential sanctions after submitting a court brief that cited six nonexistent cases due to relying on ChatGPT to help complete it. Professor Bruce Green says, “This isn’t really a new problem; lawyers have offloaded or delegated work for years,” but it is ultimately up to the supervisory lawyers to ensure it is accurate and complete. Advances in technology are no substitute for checking work, said Bruce Green, a Fordham Law School professor. Attorney professional conduct rules include provisions on technological competence and the responsibilities of supervisory lawyers. Read “Lawyer’s AI Blunder Shows Perils of ChatGPT in ‘Early…
Sourcing Journal profiled Professor Susan Scafidi and Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute as it prepares to welcome its 14th cohort this month and remains the only full-fledged program of its kind in the U.S. Read “Fashion Law Institute Welcomes 14th Cohort” on Sourcing Journal.
Professor Deborah Denno told The Spectator that Idaho’s decision to bring back the firing squad as a method of execution “is a good step forward.” “The firing squad is the quickest, most certain, and least painful method, and it’s the only method for which we have experts who conduct it,” she told The Spectator. “None of these adjectives applies to lethal injection.” Read “Why Idaho brought back the firing squad” on The Spectator.
Professor Cheryl Bader provided her legal expertise on the likelihood of criminal liability with regard to the list of recent allegations against former New York City Mayor and Donald Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani. “Sexual assault requires forcible compulsion,” Cheryl Bader, who teaches criminal law at Fordham University School of Law, told Yahoo News in an email. “Manipulation and emotional coercion are not enough, but the complaint alleges an encounter that involved holding onto her hair to force oral sex—which could constitute forcible compulsion.” Read “Allegations in Giuliani lawsuit could lead to criminal investigations, experts say” on Yahoo! News.
Professor Tanya K. Hernández contributes to a VOA article on a recent trend of people of color joining right-wing causes, including white supremacy groups. A Latino who looks and identifies as white but is not fully accepted as white may join an extremist group in order to prove his self-identify, said Hernandez of Fordham University. Read “Why Some Nonwhite Americans Espouse Right-Wing Extremism” on VOA.
Prof. Bruce Green, Director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, responds to a recent study that identifies “14 New York City judges who are more likely than their peers to order defendants held in jail while awaiting trial.” Green said the information gathered from statistically analyzing judges’ decisions might be useful to voters when the judges run for reelection, to officials in deciding whether to reappoint judges and for judicial administrators in deciding where to assign them. On the other hand, Green said, limiting judges’ discretion through legislation requires careful consideration. In the past, it brought mixed…
Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández appeared on Slate’s “What Next” podcast, to discuss identity complexities and racialized thinking within the Hispanic community. She also discussed findings from her book, “Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality.” Listen to “The Roots of Latino White Supremacy: When race cuts across ethnicity.” on Slate.
Professor Tanya Hernández explains the different racial identifications within the Latino culture in an article on the Dallas mall gunman. This disbelief is naive at best. Racial identity is a social reality, not a biological one, and Hispanic people can be of any racial background. “Latinos are a pan-ethnic group that have very many racial identifications within that grouping. So, you know, we can be Latino by ethnicity, but Latinos are also white, Black, Indigenous, Asian,” Tanya Katerí Hernández, a professor at Fordham Law and the author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality, told…