On October 27 to 28, the Fordham Law Review held a two-day symposium on the subject of law in the American territories, which include the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and Guam, among others. The symposium looked at the legal status and challenges facing the more than three million people living in the territories who—despite being U.S. citizens—often do not have the same rights as other citizens, including the right to vote for president. “One of the big goals for both the organizers and myself was first establishing a baseline education for students about the law that governs…
Author: Sejla Rizvic
The Voting Rights and Democracy Project, with assistance from the Fordham Law Advocates for Voter Rights (FLAVR), organized a discussion with U.S. Representative and Fordham Law alumnus Tom Suozzi ’89 who led a post-mortem on the U.S. midterm elections. Suozzi is the U.S. representative for New York’s 3rd District, the former county executive of Nassau County, and the former mayor of Glen Cove, New York. Suozzi was also a participant in this election cycle, having ran an ultimately unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor of New York. At the time of the event on November 9, a day…
Amelia Martella, a member of the Fordham Law’s Class of 2007 with varied experience in corporate law, returned to her alma mater this fall as the new executive director of the Corporate Law Center. She plans to work alongside Professor Richard Squire, the center’s faculty director, to reinvigorate the Center’s programming and events. “I’m thrilled that Amy has joined us as the new executive director of the Corporate Law Center,” said Squire. “She has already distinguished herself through her creative leadership as we launch multiple Center initiatives this school year. I could not be happier to be working with her…
Fordham Law held its Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal Symposium on October 7, celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the event. The symposium, titled “Duplicate, Decolonize, Destroy: Current Topics in Art and Cultural Heritage Law,” featured experts on art law from both the academic and practitioner side. The event was held as a hybrid program, with over 400 people registered to attend over Zoom. “The [IPLJ] is one of the leading journals in the field and has published fantastic pieces by both outside authors, Fordham faculty members, and students, over the past decades,” said Dean Matthew Diller at the…
Fordham Law welcomed a full audience of attendees to its Blockchain Regulatory Symposium on October 3. The invite-only event was organized by Fordham Law alumni and blockchain experts Donna Redel ’95, Joyce Lai ’13 and Greg Xethalis ’05, who co-founded the Law School’s first Blockchain Symposium in 2019. “[This year’s] symposium brought together top lawyers and regulators in the crypto-digital assets space to discuss key legal and policy issues,” said Redel, adding that the event was “a resounding success.” Wanting to ensure the privacy of event attendees, the decision was made to pause the event during the COVID-19 pandemic rather…
On September 29, Fordham Law students gathered for a screening of the documentary Free Chol Soo Lee and post-viewing discussion hosted by the Center on Asian Americans and the Law. The documentary follows the story of a wrongfully convicted Korean American immigrant, Chol Soo Lee, who was sentenced to death for a murder in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1973. Lee spent ten years in prison before a grassroots campaign led by Asian American activists, journalists, and lawyers, successfully won him his freedom. After his exoneration, Lee struggled to re-enter society and became involved in drug and gang-related activity later in…
On September 23, Dr. Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu, President of Kosovo, visited Fordham Law for an informal meeting with students while in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Osmani is the fifth president of Kosovo, which achieved independence in 2008. She received her LL.M. and S.J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and helped to draft the current constitution of Kosovo. Osmani’s remarks centered around the domestic and international challenges her country has faced as well as its triumphs as a new democracy. “Kosovo, the country that I represent, is a success story of the resilience of its…
Fordham Law’s annual Student Excellence Awards ceremony took place on September 28. The event celebrates students with the highest grade point averages in their class years, as well as students who have excelled in oral advocacy and legal writing. This year’s ceremony was the first in-person version of the event since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. “All of you here today have excelled, you’ve brought great life to our classrooms,” said Dean Matthew Diller in his welcome to students and their families. “We have a complicated world out there today and you are all going to go out there…
Two new reports released by Fordham Law School’s Rule of Law Clinic conclude that the federal government is not adequately prepared to continue functioning in a crisis. One of the reports recommends reforms to the presidential line of succession, while the other considers how Congress can continue working in the aftermath of a catastrophe. Students researched and wrote the reports during the spring 2022 semester. “The pandemic and the January 6th Capitol attack are only the most recent events to threaten the government’s ability to carry on with the people’s business,” said Dean Emeritus John D. Feerick ’61, who co-teaches…
Fordham Law’s Wellness Week, held this year from October 11 to 19, will include events aimed at teaching students strategies for cultivating their well-being by addressing topics including anxiety, implicit bias, mindfulness, and nutrition. The first few weeks of the semester have already been marked by a notable increase in student engagement on wellness topics, says Assistant Dean of Professionalism Jordana Confino. “We have seen levels of engagement in our wellness programming reach new heights, far surpassing past years,” said Confino. The difference, she says, can be chalked up to two recent changes: adjustments made to 1L orientation and increased…