On July 27, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund named recent Fordham alumna Lorena Jiron ’17 as one of its 2016–2017 Law School Scholarship Program recipients. A civil rights organization that pursues litigation concerning a range of issues pertinent to Latinos in the United States, MALDEF uses its Law School Scholarship Program to recognize law students whose work furthers the organization’s mission. “MALDEF looks at any kind of legislation or policy that seems to be targeting Latinos, or else is disproportionately affecting them, and they fight back,” says Jiron. “If I were to have a dream organization to work for,…
Author: sdanaher
…of Fordham Law School, in Order to Form a More Perfect Narrative, Do Ordain and Establish This Story of the 25th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America In October 1963, a recent Fordham Law graduate published an article in the Fordham Law Review on the “esoteric” topic of presidential succession. Arguing that an “able, healthy, and young” President John F. Kennedy had made the time ripe for the issue’s discussion, the article advocated for the adoption of a constitutional amendment to resolve the ambiguities and gaps in the Constitution’s original succession provision that had been exposed…
The Dean’s Scholars Initiative draws contributions from Fordham alumni intent on securing the School’s future. Two years ago, Fordham Law launched an ambitious campaign to increase its scholarship fund by $25 million. Now, halfway into the Dean’s Scholars Initiative, the School has raised well over half its goal. “The support of the Fordham Law community for future generations of Fordham lawyers is inspiring,” says Dean Matthew Diller. “These gifts allow talented students to attend Fordham Law, who will then go on to effect great change in their communities. These scholarships create a ripple of service that radiates out through society.…
On April 7, a group of attorneys and legal scholars convened at Fordham Law School for a day-long symposium entitled “How the Poor Still Pay More: A Reexamination of Urban Poverty in the Twenty-First Century.” Co-sponsored by Fordham’s Stein Center for Law and Ethics, Urban Law Center, Urban Consortium, and Center on Race, Law, and Justice, the symposium framed its discussion using sociologist David Caplovitz’s landmark 1963 book The Poor Pay More: Consumer Practices of Low-Income Families. The study earned universal praise for revealing the ways in which the consumer economy exploited and marginalized the poor. “Essentially you had a…
Joel Cohen wrote an op-ed for The Hill on the topic of immunity and how it might bear on former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn as he faces pressure regarding his communications with Russian and Turkish dignitaries. This article is not about the potential criminal liability of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, if any. Nor is it about whether Flynn is in a position to provide meaningful cooperation and information to the Justice Department or House or Senate Intelligence committees about Donald Trump or anyone associated with his campaign. Rather it’s about the strategy he – or more likely,…
Dean John Feerick stopped by Bob Herbert’s Op-Ed.TV for a lengthy interview concerning the 25th Amendment and Presidential succession. We have a 25th Amendment that speaks about the disability of a President, and if a President, such as Wilson, was not able to perform the powers and duties of the office, my sense is that the media and the country, having a Constitutional Amendment there, would insist that the Vice President should become the Acting President. Watch the full interview here.
In discussing his new book “The Brain Defense” with “Discover Magazine,” author Kevin Davis referenced research pioneered by Fordham professor Deborah Denno. Deborah Denno at Fordham University in New York published an interesting paper called “The Myth of the Double Edged Sword,” in which she made a strong case that rarely, if ever, does the issue of future dangerousness come up or that using neuroscience can sabotage a case [for the defense]. I found that surprising, but she reviewed two decades worth of cases. Read the full story.
Africa is a Country quoted Fordham adjunct professor Victor L. Essien in an essay about New York City’s Ghanaian diaspora. Also citing Nkrumah’s 6th of March speech that “the independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa” Mr. Victor Essien, a law professor from Fordham University who was also honored on the night instructed the audience in his keynote to keep in mind “as we Ghanaians accept this honor, to think that this recognition is meaningless unless it it is linked with the recognition of all immigrants, be they Muslim, Christian or…
The ABA Journal referred to Fordham professor Bruce Green in an article concerning North Carolina’s move to require all lawyers to reveal evidence of innocence that they discover after a conviction. Bruce Green, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law, told the Associated Press that North Carolina is the first state to apply the disclosure rule to lawyers in private practice. The North Carolina Supreme Court approved the ethics rule earlier this month. Read the full article.
Fordham professor John Pfaff’s book “Locked In,” which traces the role of prosecutorial discretion in creating the United States’ booming prison population, was mentioned in an article concerning Brooklyn’s acting District Attorney Eric Gonzales. Circulating around the room was a copy of Fordham University Law Professor John Pfaff’s book “Locked In”, the thesis of which is that it is prosecutors, rather than the war on drugs or legislators seeking easy “law & order” votes, that is responsible for the immensity of America’s prison complex. Cases that might previously have been charged as misdemeanors are now filed as felonies, even in…