Traditionally, ULJ hosts a Cooper-Walsh Colloquium in the fall and a Symposium in the spring. At these events, scholars present and respond to issues relevant to public policy and legal discourse today
2023 Fall Cooper-Walsh Colloquium
Public Health History and the Future of Gun Regulation after Bruen
October 13, 2023
Fordham University School of Law
Skadden Conference Center (Live broadcast on Zoom)
Presented by Fordham Urban Law Journal and co-hosted by Northwell Health’s Center for Gun Violence Prevention and the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Bloomberg School of Public Health
About the Program
The Fordham Urban Law Journal and co-hosts Northwell Health Center for Gun Violence Prevention and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Gun Violence Solutions are thrilled to announce the 2023 Cooper-Walsh Colloquium on Public Health, History, and the Future of Gun Regulation After Bruen. This event brought together a diverse group of scholars of law, public health and policy, and history to discuss the future of firearms regulation, including Fordham University’s Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History, Saul Cornell, a prize-winning author and one of the nation’s leading authorities on early American constitutional thought.
2024 Spring Symposium
With People Struggling and the Law Failing, What are the Solutions to the Access to Justice Crisis in America?
Fordham University School of Law
Skadden Conference Center (Live broadcast on Zoom)
About the Program
Everyday, the civil legal system fails to deliver justice for all. Debt collection actions threaten people’s financial stability and liberty, evictions threaten their security in their homes, and neglect prosecutions threaten the rupture of their family bonds. In fact, millions of people annually face complex legal obstacles and powerful opponents without legal assistance of any kind. The consequences often fall hardest on communities of color and pose a special burden in metropolitan centers where the density of people and volume of disputes affect millions.
With people struggling and the law failing, the Fordham Urban Law Journal is devoting the 2024 Symposium to bringing together scholars and activists to consider civil legal system responses. The first panel will discuss policy solutions that are abolitionist with their promise of sharply reducing the footprint of the civil legal system in people’s lives. A second will focus on the tenants’ civil right to counsel, considering its advance into four states and 17 cities, its benefits for tenants and for communities, and its challenges in the course of implementation. A third will examine approaches that are authorizing people to obtain legal help from trained advocates who do not have law degrees. The final panel will zoom in on additional policy solutions – new laws, procedures, technologies, and programs – that are increasing access to justice. Join us as we face the justice gap, learn what’s being tried, how it’s working, and whether to scale it up.