From cleaning up Central Park, advocating for gender-affirming care, and studying neighborhoods in Chinatown, around 200 Fordham Law students spread across New York City for the school’s annual Public Service Day. The event is an annual tradition at the law school that brings together first year and returning students to volunteer the Saturday before the fall semester begins and encourages them to live the school’s motto of working “in the service of others.” “This year’s Public Service Day was absolutely fantastic, touching on various topics of public interest law and service,” said Mia Jackson-Rosenthal, a director for the Public Interest…
Author: Sejla Rizvic
Over the summer, Fordham Law students gathered together for a town hall event to discuss the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling made in late June. The two cases, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina, upended current procedures that allowed colleges to consider race as a factor in admissions. Academic institutions and student groups across the country, including Fordham Law student affinity groups, published statements outlining their position following the reversal. Fordham’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) quoted a line from Supreme Court Justice…
Fordham Law students and alumni traveled all over the globe this summer—from right here in New York City, to Seoul, and Paris. We caught up with some of them to ask where they traveled and what they did. Start exploring here.
The Center on Asian Americans and the Law held its Second Annual Summer Scholarship Conference on July 13. The day-long event was co-sponsored by the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY), as part of the Center’s continuing effort to promote Asian American legal studies. Building upon the success of last summer’s program, the Second Annual Conference had two parts. In the morning session, the Center’s co-directors—U.S. Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin ’78 and Leitner Family Professor of International Law Thomas Lee—presented a “master class” on Asian Americans and the Law, surveying the topics covered in their co-compiled course…
On June 8, the Scott Simpson Cross-Border Institute at Fordham Law held the 2023 Transatlantic Conference, titled “How Geopolitical Instability Affects the Global Deal Market.” The conference was held at the Law School and featured a keynote address by John Brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, followed by expert panels on China and Ukraine. More than 100 guests convened for the conference, which was hosted by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and the Fordham Corporate Law Center. Brennan’s keynote, informed by 30 years of working in national security, provided a snapshot of the current global ecosystem including…
Sarah Seo ’23 has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Policy Fellowship. Seo will be joining the Legal Defense Fund (LDF)’s New York office this fall for a two-year period to work on issues related to education and economic justice. After completing a policy internship with LDF this past year, Seo said she was ecstatic to be returning to one of the most prestigious civil rights organizations in the country as a fellow. “So many amazing advocates have worked at LDF, and I knew I wanted to be a part of its…
The Center on Asian Americans and the Law hosted a “Professionalism and Career Advice Panel Discussion” for Fordham Law students featuring three accomplished Asian American speakers, who spoke about their legal careers and how they got to where they are today. The panelists included U.S. Magistrate Judge Sanket J. Bulsara of the Eastern District of New York; Una A. Dean, vice president, assistant general counsel, and head of global investigations at IBM, and Richard K. Kim, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. The event was moderated by Professor Thomas H. Lee, Leitner Family Professor of International Law and…
On June 12, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that Fordham Law Professor Atinuke Adediran will serve the agency as a senior advisor on racial justice on a yearlong Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment. Adediran will be working in the newly-formed Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, where she will advise on policy and legal issues related to race equity and the environment. She is tasked with analyzing the administration of the EPA’s civil rights, affirmative employment, and diversity programs, making policy recommendations on national civil rights issues, and implementing strategic plans for civil rights programs. The advisory…
Shanice Scantlebury ’25, Yannick Twumasi ’25, and Cristian Vega ’25 have been named the 2023 recipients of the Hon. Deborah A. Batts Scholarship. The scholarship was established in 2021 soon after the death of Judge Batts, a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York and the Law School’s first Black faculty member to receive tenure at Fordham Law. Working with Fordham Law’s Center on Race, Law and Justice, Batts Scholars are dedicated to using their legal education to promote social justice, civil rights, and equality. We spoke with this year’s recipients about their work on social justice…
Fordham Law students Daniel Akilov ’24 and Makayla Ashe ’24 won first place at the Cardozo BMI Entertainment and Media Law Moot Court Competition in March, triumphing against 14 other teams. The competition centered around trademark, copyright, and NFTs—areas of law neither Akilov nor Ashe were familiar with before they began preparing for it. “In some ways, the most difficult part of [the competition] is that you are exploring an entirely new area of the law and have to have a working knowledge of it before you even start practicing oral arguments,” said Ashe. The team turned to their coach,…