Professor and Director of Fordham Law’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, Jerry Goldfeder wrote an expert opinion piece on the lack of existing procedures for how to address the absence of an incapacitated senator. Read “If Diane Feinstein Were President” on Just Security.
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Professor and Director of Fordham Law’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, Jerry Goldfeder, has been appointed to the working group of 27 attorneys tasked with examining the nomination process for adding judges to New York State’s Court of Appeals. Read “NYC Bar To Review Process For Picking Top Court Candidates” on Law360.
Professor Susan Scafidi talked with host June Grasso about recent legislation aimed at banning drag shows. Listen to “Supreme Court Puts Hold on Transgender Sports Ban” on Bloomberg Law Podcast.
Professor James Brudney talked to Bloomberg Law about proposed legislation that would stop companies from getting tax deductions for “union busting” activities. These tax code changes would apply to what is identifiable as an anti-union practice. And it includes things that are not yet determined to be unlawful. Read “Lawmakers, Unions Eye Tax Code Change to Advance Labor Agenda” on Bloomberg Law.
Fordham Law’s Banking, Corporate and Finance Law LLM program was included in LLM Guide’s list of top ten LLM programs for Corporate Law. Read “Top 10 LLMs in Corporate Law” on LLM Guide.
In collaboration with with Gregory Day, Professor Bennett Capers wrote an article published in ProMarket about the disproportionate effects that anticompetitive activities have on minority communities. Read “Race and the Consumer Welfare Standard” on ProMarket.
Professor Cheryl Bader appeared on CBS News to discuss how former President Trump’s April 13 deposition will differ from his criminal arraignment the week prior. What the segment “What to expect from Trump’s deposition Thursday in NYC” on CBS News.
The Scott Simpson Cross-Border Institute recently launched by Fordham Law School in partnership with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom was featured in New York Law Journal. Read the full story in New York Law Journal.
Professor Julie Suk’s new book, After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women & What to Do About It, was released today. Published by the University of California Press, After Misogyny explores why feminism is essential to constitutional democracy, and examines efforts to end male over-empowerment around the world. Professor Suk discussed the central themes of the book and how they relate to current legal events on the Constitutional Crisis Hotline podcast, which she cohosts with Professor Jed Shugerman, along with guest Deb Tuerkheimer. She also joined Samuel Moyne to discuss the book on Digging A Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast.…
Professor Bruce Green weighs in on the debate over the constitutionality of closed door trials as it pertains the recent case People v. Dwight Reid. The very premise of implicit bias is that it’s not overt, so there is no way to say whether judicial conduct was or was not motivated by implicit racial bias or another cognitive bias. Rules of procedure have to factor in the possibility that judges, being human, have biases of which they themselves may not be aware,” Green said. “A trial judge must do the best she can to rest her decision on the facts,…