Law360 profiled Fordham Law’s Black Law Student Group’s founding and the recent gala organized by current students to celebrate its 50-year anniversary. Holder and other Black students during the 1972-1973 school year founded what came to be known as the Black Law Students Association, with the idea of helping those in need in New York City and of diversifying Fordham Law’s student population. “The civil rights movement had cooled off by that point, but we wanted to keep its ideals going,” said Holder, who graduated in 1975 and went on to pursue a legal career as a tax attorney and…
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Fordham Law’s Professor Bennett Capers and Brooklyn Law School’s Professor Cynthia Godsoe co-wrote an opinion piece about the missing issue of race in deciding “reasonable” fear and society’s struggle to choose empathy over fear when navigating interactions with mentally disabled individuals. Read “Neely’s death and reasonableness: Like in the Bernhard Goetz case, how the word is interpreted will determine if the subway killing by Daniel Penny is lawful or not” in the Daily News.
Professor of Constitutional Law, Thomas Lee, explains why President Joe Biden invoking the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to raise the federal borrowing limit would be unlikely to hold up. “As applied to what President Biden might do today, it would be a unilateral presidential action, without congressional authorization…I don’t know exactly what that would be. He can’t borrow money to pay the debt: Congress has the power ‘to borrow Money on the credit of the United States’ under Article I, Section 8. I’m not a finance expert and so other than borrowing money, I am not sure exactly what the President…
Professor Tanya K. Hernàndez explains why Latinos who feel othered could be susceptible to supporting a white supremacist hate group. Tanya Hernández, a law professor at Fordham University and author of “Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias,” said Latinos are often viewed “as an unwanted other” in the U.S. “If you are a Latino who is already affected by being viewed as other and want desperately to be part of the club that is the U.S., what better way to make a claim … than to be part of the enforcement, the policing of whiteness within a white supremacist hate…
Professor Tanya K. Hernàndez provides insight into how White supremacy groups are attracting and seeking out non-White members. “Until we deal directly with the notion that many people can be complicit in and uphold white supremacy — if we keep looking at it with blinders on as simply something that a White, English-speaking, Ku Klux Klan member, neo-Nazi does … that is what will permit the growth of other groups being a part of it,” she said. “It goes under the radar.” Kateri Hernandez said Latinos who gravitate toward White supremacy are often reacting to elements within their community that…
Professor Abner S. Greene unpacks the recent Supreme Court case, Loper Bright Enterprises, Inc. v. Raimando, which has re-ignited the debate over the permissible scope of delegated power from Congress to regulatory agencies. The case hinges on interpreting statutes and precedents set by the nearly 40-year-old case, Chevron v. NRDC. The case, Loper Bright Enterprises, Inc. v. Raimando, threatens to upend the regulatory state as we know it. The underlying question is whether a nearly 40-year-old Supreme Court precedent, Chevron v. NRDC, should be overruled. Written by Justice John Paul Stevens, the unanimous Chevron opinion reconfirmed what had already been the case: When a…
Prof. Ian Weinstein provided the ground rules for juror and witness conduct for grand jury proceedings in a Newsday article on the Suffolk County grand jury investigation into the CPS workers overseeing Thomas Valva’s case, which included dozens of reports of abuse. The 8-year-old froze to death on Jan. 17, 2020, after his father and the father’s fiancee forced him and his 10-year-old brother, Anthony, to spend the night in their unheated garage. Unlike a criminal trial, which is public, grand jury proceedings are secret, and jurors and prosecutors cannot publicly discuss testimony and other matters, said Ian Weinstein, a professor…
Assistant Dean of Professionalism and Positive Lawyering Professor, Jordana Alter Confino, joined Jonah Perlin on How I Lawyer podcast to discuss tips and techniques for living a life of value & purpose in the legal profession. Click here to listen to episode #110 of How I Lawyer: Jordana Confino – Lawyer Well-being & Positive Lawyering Expert, Assistant Dean of Professionalism at Fordham Law.
In a Times Union op-ed, clinical associate professor of law, Martha Rayner, criticizes the lack of transparency around an evaluation tool called COMPAS Re-entry used by the New York Parole Board to determine whether a person is eligible for parole. Read “Commentary: This algorithm is used to deny inmates parole. We’re not allowed to know anything about it.” in Times Union.
Professor James Brudney provides legal analysis on how the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit will rule on Starbuck’s challenge to an order requiring the reinstatement of union supporters discharged last year. “If [the Sixth Circuit] announces a general standard for when chill either evaporates or abates, it might have consequences for other cases, but may also be sufficiently fact-specific to allow for further development in future instances,” Brudney said. “To the extent that Starbucks has demonstrated a systematic approach to resisting unionization in its stores, the outcome of a case like this may affect its behavior going…