Sarina Chohan ’26, returned to her hometown of San Francisco this summer to work as an intern in the city’s Public Defender’s Office. She had the opportunity to meet with clients in jail, write motions, and even appear in court. Chohan said she was thrilled to spend her summer in San Francisco, where she feels connected to the local community. “Public defense work requires a lot of passion,” said Chohan. “So having a deep connection to the city, and my family and friends to support me, makes me even more passionate about doing the work.” Where are you interning this…
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Future litigator Adetoun Adelana ’27 spent her summer traveling all of New York’s five boroughs as a trial division intern at Nationwide Insurance. Shadowing the company’s attorneys, Adelana conducted legal research, drafted motions, and wrote memoranda, gaining a view of how the New York City court system functions from the inside. “It’s been a great mix of practical writing experience and exposure to litigation in action,” said Adelana, who sees a future in corporate law. “I’ve always enjoyed making strong arguments and thinking quickly on my feet,” said Adelana. “Litigation lets me do all of that while constantly learning more…
Fordham Law students visited South Korea this summer as part of the annual Summer Program in Seoul, a two to three-week long academic program that provides students with a unique opportunity to not only learn firsthand about the South Korean legal system, but also experience the country’s dynamic culture. The program is co-sponsored by Fordham Law School and Sungkyunkwan University College of Law in Seoul, which allows students to obtain law school credit and internship opportunities with legal employers in Seoul. “The program provides valuable lessons about how a legal system works in a different country or in an international…
Andrew Jeong ’26 spent his summer gaining experience in cross-border transactional work as a summer associate at White & Case in New York City. He said the experience gave him “clarity and direction” for his future career as an attorney working in mergers and acquisitions and a stronger sense of the practice areas he would like to focus on, such as private equity. The opportunity also came with some great perks, including the chance to attend a Beyoncé concert in a VIP suite with his colleagues. Where are you interning this summer? I am working as a summer associate at…
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…
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…