Tanya Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham Law and an internationally recognized expert on anti-discrimination and comparative race law. Hernández is a leading voice on issues of race and the law, with extensive scholarship on critical race theory, implicit bias, and racial equity in the legal system. She teaches classes on comparative employment discrimination, critical race theory, and other topics at Fordham Law. She is also the author of four books, including Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law and the New Civil Rights Response and Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino…
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The Fordham Law Dispute Resolution Society (DRS) traveled to locales as far as France, Georgia, and Hong Kong this past year to compete and earn awards in prestigious international dispute resolution competitions and hone their oral advocacy skills. The Society’s excellence in international competitions has helped Fordham Law achieve a 12th-place national ranking in the 2025 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Law Schools” specialty rankings. The student-run organization enables a select group of second- and third-year law students to develop practical skills in oral advocacy, brief writing, research, negotiation, mediation, and arbitration through rigorous preparation, practice, and…
Fordham Law’s Center on Race, Law, and Justice, in collaboration with Defying Legal Gravity, hosted the inaugural Youth Legal Empowerment Conference, a first of its kind event for high school students in the New York City area that brought together youth leaders, community members, and advocates “to explore practical strategies for community-built justice.” Students learned about the law through peer-led panels and also participated in workshops that taught them real world legal skills, how to review lease agreements and how to safeguard their federal education law rights. “The inaugural Youth Legal Empowerment Conference illustrated how important it is to recognise,…
When Ralph Craviso FCRH ’69 LAW ’73 was deciding what form his donation to Fordham Law might take, he determined he wanted to contribute in a way he could “relate to on a more personal basis.” Craviso decided to fund a named scholarship that would provide crucial financial support for students to attend Fordham Law School. He was first connected with Carolyn Egervary ’25 when she was an incoming 1L from Montana with aspirations of practicing law in New York City. During her legal education at Fordham, she benefited significantly from Craviso’s generous support. “I’ve always invested in people,” said…
With degrees in labor relations and public policy, Bennett Cicoski-Sherr ’27 came to Fordham Law determined to turn his passion for workers’ rights into a career working for labor unions. This summer, Cicoski-Sherr, who is also a Stein Scholar for Public Interest and Ethics, is taking a major step toward realizing his dream by serving as a Peggy Browning Fellow with the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The highly competitive legal fellowship provides funded externship opportunities for law students interested in working on the union side of labor law and “advancing the cause of workers’ rights.” What is your hometown?…
In April, Fordham Law, represented by Professor Bruce Green, joined six leading law schools at the inaugural meeting of the Global Network of Centers on the Legal Profession, a new global organization of law school centers focused on examining the legal profession, legal education, and legal ethics. Green, director of Fordham Law’s Stein Center for Law and Ethics, was joined by faculty members from the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, the LawAhead Center at IE Law School, the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession, Georgetown University, King’s College London, and Tilburg University, for the day-long session at…
At Fordham Law, Hooman Yazdanian ’25 has translated his bachelor’s degree in media studies and experience as a journalist into a long term interest in media law and first amendment rights. While at Fordham, he worked as a legal writing teaching assistant, the bench editor on the executive board of the Fordham Moot Court team, and a research assistant for Professor Howard Erichson. After graduation, Yazdanian will be working as a judicial law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge K. Michael Moore in the Southern District of Florida. Where did you grow up? I was born in Hanover, Germany, to…
The Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center celebrated its 30th anniversary at Fordham Law with a banner year of victories at national competitions, further cementing its standing as one of the most competitive trial advocacy programs in the country. This year the Center experienced several significant successes, finishing as finalists at the Texas Young Lawyers Association National Trial Competition, co-hosting the regional American Association for Justice Student Trial Advocacy Competition, and winning the championship title at the National Court-Martial Challenge. The Center was established in 1995 “to foster the teaching and study of lawyers as advocates at the trial level,” and…
During her law school education, Sherry Gui ’25 found two legal areas she is passionate about: transactional work and criminal law. She observed trials as the guest of Judge Gerald Lebovits of the New York Supreme Court 1st Judicial District, and as a member of the Criminal Defense Clinic, she had the opportunity to represent clients in court. Gui is excited to start her legal career at Hogan Lovells, where she will be doing general transaction work while continuing to pursue her interest in criminal law in a pro bono capacity. Where did you study before Fordham Law? I completed…
Cristian Vega ’25 made a lasting impact at Fordham Law by serving as the president of the Latin American Law Students Association, which he calls one of his “most meaningful experiences at Fordham.” Vega was also involved in the Housing and Environmental Justice Litigation Clinic and has an interest in education law and policy impacting underserved students. In the fall, he’ll be joining Cahill, Gordon, and Reindel LLP as an associate, but in the future he hopes to pursue a career in politics. What is your hometown? I was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. Where did you…