Native New Yorker Akilah Browne selected Fordham Law School to acquire the legal skills necessary to fight for a cause that is deeply personal to her: housing justice. Beginning in fall 2019, the 4L evening student will put her skills to use as a Skadden Fellowship recipient working with the New Economy Project to combat [...]

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Akilah Browne, a 2019 Skadden Fellow who will be working with grassroots projects in affordable housing and community land trusts (CLT), laid her groundwork in community lawyering in the Community Economic Clinic (CED) under the supervision of Brian Glick. Browne led a team on a community land trust project that bridged the legal and social gaps among community organizations, residents of the [...]

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Fordham Law was ranked #10 among law schools for legal tech in a list compiled by The National Jurist. The publication recently ranked 30 law schools in legal technology based on several factors: the variety and quantity of their tech course offerings, clinics, externships, and labs the availability of a specialized degree certificate in technology law [...]

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Kara Krakower and Daniella Villatoro, Fordham Law students in the Federal Tax Clinic, joined Professor Elizabeth Maresca, who directs the clinic, in conducting a one-day Veteran’s Day Legal Clinic at the Fordham University Rose Hill campus. The event was organized by the Feerick Center for Social Justice, as well as Volunteer Lawyers for Veterans and the Office of the Brooklyn [...]

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A group of Fordham Law students participating in the Federal Litigation Clinic claimed a recent victory when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in their favor in a discrimination case. The clinic’s client had previously brought a Fair Housing Act pregnancy discrimination claim in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern [...]

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In the 55 years from 1960 to 2015, the Latino population in the United States has increased by almost 900%. Demographic change of this sort raises important questions about the current standing and treatment of this diverse community, particularly as the country celebrates the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, which [...]

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Founded in 1995, the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center recently held its biannual trial advocacy competition. Over the course of five days in July, 68 competitors participated in 17 simulated trials, mentored by 21 faculty from Fordham Law as well as 24 faculty instructors from outside Fordham. Adam Shlahet ’02, director of the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center, led [...]

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The Fordham Law Clinical and Experiential Program has launched a Democracy and the Constitution clinic this fall, led by Professor and former Dean John Feerick and Professor John Rogan, who also co-taught the Presidential Succession clinic in 2016–2017. The clinic will take a holistic approach to the legal and social spheres of democracy, involving both legal research and analysis of public interaction [...]

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Federal Tax clinic students Vick Paul and Brianna Discenza, under the direction and supervision of Professor Elizabeth Maresca, negotiated a resolution of a case where the IRS was holding a woman responsible for a large tax debt created entirely by her ex-husband. The Federal Tax clinic client, who lacks a college degree, married a high-level Wall Street executive. Despite [...]

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Over the past two decades, Fordham Law School has forged sturdy ties with Ireland through numerous connections: participating in the peace process between the Republic of Ireland and North Ireland in the mid-1990s, instituting the ongoing Belfast/Dublin Summer Program in 2001, sending its students to clerk for the Irish Supreme Court, and inviting Irish Supreme [...]

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Strict privacy laws. Heated disputes involving intellectual property. The risks and rewards of offshoring. These are just a few issues that Sean Coutain has to reckon with, working in compliance for a big tech company. “If you have an app you can download anywhere in the world, you’re subject to jurisdiction anywhere in the world,” [...]

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Fordham Law’s Entrepreneurial Law Clinic has launched a podcast, Startup LAWnchpad, which will help familiarize entrepreneurs and businesspeople with the legal issues they need to be aware of as they get their companies up and running. Episodes of Startup LAWnchpad will feature Fordham Law professors, alumni, and students discussing various legal topics related to entrepreneurship, [...]

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Twenty years ago, Fordham Law convened “Rediscovering Religion in the Lives of Lawyers and Those They Represent,” a conference that brought together lawyers, judges, students, and scholars looking to help those in the legal field reconcile their deeply held religious beliefs with their professional lives. Amy Uelmen, a lecturer at Georgetown University, was one of those in [...]

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On June 20, Fordham Law’s Family Advocacy Clinic partnered with the Rose F. Kennedy Children’s Evaluation & Rehabilitation Center (CERC)—a branch of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine—to run a one-day clinic for families with special-needs children. At the CERC, located in the Bronx, children complete various psychiatric, psychological, speech, and language evaluations in order [...]

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A California federal judge’s preliminary injunction issued on June 26 forced the Trump administration to begin the process of reuniting thousands of migrant families it separated as part of its heavily criticized “zero tolerance” immigration policy. But as the ensuing weeks have demonstrated, making families whole again, particularly when no plan for doing so previously [...]

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Clinic Professor Martha Rayner wrote an op-ed in Crains New York about Mayor DeBlasio’s stance in marijuana and drug enforcement laws. The Police Department’s recent announcement that it will no longer arrest people for publicly smoking marijuana is welcome news, but carving out an exception for those with arrest histories violates the constitution, state statutes [...]

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During his decorated Fordham Law career, Frank Kearl ’18 helped organize over 30 events on hot-button issues such as immigration, LGBTQ rights, and mass incarceration, participated in public interest projects across the United States and in Mexico, and held leadership roles in a number of student-run public interest groups at the Law School. For his [...]

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Coss Marte does not need help starting a business. In fact, Marte is by any measure a success story. After serving time in prison for drug dealing, he returned to his native Lower East Side and opened ConBody, a boutique gym where New Yorkers learn a workout regime that he taught himself in prison—one that enabled [...]

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Attorney Andrew Weisfeld, Christina Eadie, and clinic interns Deborah Levine and Sloane Lewis collaborated with the Albert Einstein Medicial College to run a one-day, pop-up clinic at LSLS, Inc. on the 9th floor.  LSLS, Inc., the law firm arm of the Fordham Law Clinic, performed intakes and gave brief advice in person after reviewing client family documents. The [...]

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Professor Ron Lazebnik, who teaches the Intellectual Property and Information Law Clinic, will be presenting at the NYC Women Filmmakers Workshop, “Protecting Your Film’s Intellectual Property,” on Wednesday, June 20th, at New York University. Together with transactional attorney Andrea Cannistraci, they will discuss their expertise in intellectual property in the film industry and how one can better understand and [...]

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Earlier this week, the Securities Arbitration Clinic held its annual roundtable event. Professor Paul Radvany hosted representatives from the Securities and Exchange Commission, FINRA’s Office of Dispute Resolution, and a number of clinical professors from various law schools. Together, they met to address current issues and trends in the Securities industry as well as discuss these areas in their own clinics.

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Students in Fordham’s Legislative Policy and Advocacy Clinic convened with elected officials and authored an op-ed during the spring semester as part of ongoing efforts to reform the state’s tax debt law so that thousands of New Yorkers facing extreme financial hardship would be exempt from license suspension. Under the supervision of Clinical Professor Elizabeth [...]

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Since November 2017, the Department of Homeland Security has announced the end of Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 people, many of whom have worked, paid taxes, and raised children in the United States for almost two decades after environmental disasters, armed conflict, or other extraordinary conditions forced them to flee their native countries. [...]

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Fordham Law alumna Jessica Rose ’01 has been named executive director of Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A after a distinguished 15-year career at the public interest nonprofit. Rose joined Brooklyn A’s Community & Economic Development Program in 2004 as a staff attorney and became the director of the CED Program in 2008. This summer, she [...]

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In the following abstract of a forthcoming article, Professor Elizabeth Cooper proposes that appearance conformities of lawyers are challenges to self-identity in the The Appearance of Professionalism, 70 Florida L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2019) The dominant image of a lawyer overwhelmingly remains a neatly dressed person wearing a conservative, dark suit, white shirt, and appropriate [...]

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Elaina Aquila and Gabrielle Kornblau, along with Emerson Argueta and Jessie Boas, all students in the Legislative and Policy Advocacy Clinic, wrote an op-ed for the Times Union about a tax law that allows the state to suspend an individual’s driver’s license for owing back taxes. Imagine struggling to keep a roof over your head and [...]

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Students in the Legislative & Policy and Federal Tax clinics worked together to advocate for a change in the tax law which they believe disadvantages the poor. It all began with a Tax Clinic client who couldn’t pay his back taxes and had his driver’s license suspended as a penalty, thereby disadvantaging him even further because he needed to drive to work and [...]

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Deema Nagib, a student in the Criminal Defense Clinic, received this year’s Public Service Valedictorian Award.  Nagib committed over 1,000 hours to public service during her three years of law school. As a law clinic student, she was able to work with other law students, a social work student, and the clinic’s supervising psychologist, using an interdisciplinary approach to solving [...]

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Leah Hill, associate dean for experiential education and director of the Family Advocacy Clinic, partnered this semester with the Rose F. Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, a program of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The Family Advocacy Clinic and the Bronx Defenders comprise the partnership’s legal arm, which will help prepare a cadre of disability-informed legal professionals, [...]

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Ian Weinstein will receive Fordham Law’s Teacher of the Year award at the Law School’s diploma ceremony on May 22. Weinstein joined Fordham Law in 1991 as a full-time clinical legal educator and has played a key role in the growth of the clinical program since then. He was named the School’s first associate dean for clinical legal education, in [...]

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