Two of Fordham Law’s clinicians were recently recognized for their contributions to clinical teaching work and accomplishments at the Law School. Bernice Grant, senior director of Fordham Law’s Entrepreneurial Program and the founding director of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (ELC), was named this year’s winner of the Association of American Law School’s (AALS) M. Shanara Gilbert Award. Professor Ian Weinstein received the Clinical Legal Education Association’s (CLEA) 2022 Outstanding Advocate for Clinical Teachers Award. Outstanding Advocacy Weinstein said he was “thrilled and humbled” after learning he would receive the CLEA award, which is given out annually to an individual who…
Author: Sejla Rizvic
On April 7, LatinoJustice President and General Counsel Lourdes Rosado spoke with Fordham’s Latin American Law Students Association and other members of the Law School community about her career as a lawyer and her organization’s recent successes and initiatives. Rosado joined LatinoJustice in September 2021. She previously worked as a program director at the New York Civil Liberties Union and served as the associate director of the Juvenile Law Center and chief of the Civil Rights Bureau in the New York State Attorney General’s Office. She is the third woman to occupy the top leadership role at LatinoJustice, a Manhattan-based…
New York Solicitor General Barbara D. Underwood accepted the Louis J. Lefkowitz Award at the Fordham Urban Law Journal’s (ULJ) annual Alumni Dinner on April 21. Underwood was selected for the award due to her substantial contribution to the field of urban law throughout her distinguished career in public service. Dean Matthew Diller and ULJ Alumni President Vincent Lesch ’14 presented Underwood with the Award. Underwood has worked as a top adviser to nine different leaders of law offices across local, state, and federal governments. Early in her legal career, she was a law clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall on…
On March 28, the Public Interest Resource Center (PIRC) at Fordham Law held its 31st Annual Public Interest Student Awards Ceremony, recognizing and celebrating student contribution to public interest work. The event was presented in person at Fordham Law and was also broadcast virtually for students’ families and friends. Dean Matthew Diller and Leah Horowitz ’06, assistant dean for public interest and social justice initiatives, provided opening remarks to kick off the event. “To our graduating students, we are so proud of you, and we will miss you,” said Horowitz. “You are exceptional public interest leaders in the ongoing battle…
Mina Juhn ’22 has won the 2022 Robert T. Matsui Annual Writing Competition for her article about Mitsuye Endo, a Japanese-American woman who was a plaintiff in a landmark trial related to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The Matsui Writing competition was established in 2005 by the Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund to encourage legal scholarship on issues of importance to the Asian Pacific American community. It is named in honor of the late U.S. Representative Robert T. Matsui, who was forced to live in an internment camp with his family in the 1940s. Juhn’s…
On March 21, Fordham Law celebrated the launch of its newly established Voting Rights & Democracy Project with a virtual panel discussion titled “Protecting Our Constitutional Democracy: What Lawyers Can and Should Do.” The panel, the first of a series of events organized around the launch, brought together top experts in constitutional issues and explored lawyers’ roles in preserving and protecting our democracy. The project, led by Jerry H. Goldfeder, a nationally recognized election law expert and adjunct professor at Fordham Law, aims to educate students in the law and practice of voting rights, ballot access, campaign finance, election administration,…
The Feerick Center for Social Justice held its fourth and final Social Justice Speaker Series event of the 2021-2022 academic year on March 24, featuring Estee Ward, a staff attorney at Make the Road New York (MRNY), who spoke about the campaign to provide economic relief and ongoing benefits for New York’s low-wage essential workers. The virtual event was co-sponsored by 25 other Fordham Law student organizations, centers, and organizations. MRNY is a grassroots organization that works to raise labor standards for workers through legal services, organizing, and advocacy. Ward spoke about the organization’s efforts to help build a “safety…
On March 18, the Center on National Security (CNS) at Fordham Law brought together two prominent international law experts, Oona Hathaway and Gabor Rona, to discuss the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine. The virtual panel, titled “Crimes of Aggression, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes in Ukraine,” looked at the recent events in Ukraine through the legal context of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of the country, which began on Feb. 24. CNS Director Karen J. Greenberg, who served as moderator, explained that the International Criminal Court (ICC) called for an investigation into Russia’s actions on March 2 and that the International…
On March 10, Fordham Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice held its annual Virtual FriendRaiser, where Jessie Boas ’19 was honored with the Center’s inaugural Defender of the Dream Award. Boas is a staff attorney and Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow at the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, where she represents non-detained and detained people in their deportation proceedings. The award recognizes members of the Feerick Center and Fordham Law School community who have distinguished themselves for their work and service in advancing human rights, upholding the rule of law, and transforming systems to advance justice. The event met and exceeded…
On March 4, Paul Gowder, professor of law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, spoke to the Fordham Law community about his new book The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation (Bloomsbury, 2021). The event was moderated by Tanya Kateri Hernández, the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, and was held virtually. Gowder summarized the contemporary discourse on the rule of law in the United States, which he said tends to take on two forms: those who see the United States as “the paragon of the rule of…