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Fordham Law Names Inaugural Class of Professionalism Fellows
Fordham Law’s office of professionalism has launched a new one-year fellowship program for six upper-year students with an interest in and commitment to promoting professionalism, mentorship, and...
View ArticleFederal Litigation Clinic Students Argue Appeal Before Second Circuit
Prior to the coronavirus shutdown, recent graduate Katherine Anne Boy Skipsey ’20, along with Nina Riegelsberger ’21 and Ruadhan McKeone ‘20, had the remarkable and rare opportunity to argue an appeal...
View ArticleThe Criminal Defense Clinic Goes to Albany
Martha Rayner (far right), co-director of the Criminal Defense Clinic, and Kaela Economos, the Clinic’s social work supervisor, traveled to Albany last month along with two future CDC students, Rachel...
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Meet the Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program
Fordham Law School’s Stein Scholars program is designed to cultivate the next generation of public interest lawyers. Selected students with a demonstrated commitment to public interest participate in...
View ArticleFall 2020 Campus Reopening Update
A Message from Dean Diller to Students: July 7, 2020 Dear Students, I know you have been eager to learn our plans for the fall. Our current intention is to open our beautiful building for the fall...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Abolish Electors
This article was written by Andrew Vazquez ’22, relying on research and analysis that Jenny Brejt ’20 conducted for the Democracy Clinic’s study of the Electoral College. Students in the Democracy...
View ArticleChristina John ’21 Wins LSAC’s 2020 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Writing...
Rising 3L Christina John ’21 won LSAC’s 2020 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Writing Competition in the second-year law student category with her essay, “It’s Your Choice: Diversity and Inclusion or...
View ArticleElias Wright ’20 Wins First Place in the James R. Cleary Prize Competition
Recent graduate Elias Wright ’20 was awarded first place and a prize of $1,000 in the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy’s second annual James R. Cleary Prize competition for his student note, “The...
View ArticleDiploma Privilege Now
Second-year law student Winn Periyasamy ’22 and alum Mary Kate Cunningham ’20 co-authored an opinion piece for the Gotham Gazette in favor of diploma privilege, for recent graduates of New York’s law...
View ArticleCongress Can Provide Mail Voting for the Presidential Election
The article was researched and written by students in Fordham Law’s Democracy Clinic. Administering the upcoming 2020 presidential election poses unique challenges in light of COVID-19. To say the...
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Aishling Fitzpatrick ’20 Takes Second Place at Baylor Law’s Top Gun Competition
Recent graduate and outgoing Editor-in-Chief of the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center Aishling Fitzpatrick ’20 came in second place at Baylor Law’s 11th Annual Top Gun National Mock Trial...
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Fordham Law Reopens, Welcoming First-Year Students to Orientation
After closing its physical campus on March 9 due to the coronavirus outbreak, Fordham Law School reopened the building for the first time this week, welcoming new students for its first-ever hybrid...
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Meet Five Members of Fordham Law’s Newest J.D. Class
As students descended on campus or logged on remotely for the first day of classes on August 26, the Fordham Law community was joined by its incoming class of 416 first-year J.D. students. Nearly 5,400...
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Students Spread Their Wings in Virtual Summer Internships Across the U.S.
Some Fordham Law students faced uncertainty in the spring when the coronavirus forced summer internships to be shortened or canceled altogether. However, many of the Law School’s alumni quickly stepped...
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Judicial Center Launches Peer Clerkship Council
The Center for Judicial Events & Clerkships, to further the clerkship side of the Center’s mandate, has launched a Peer Clerkship Council (PCC). The founding members of the PCC are members of the...
View ArticlePresidential Candidates Should Undergo Background Checks
Joe Beery ’20, Alexis Carra ’20, and Emily Viola ’21, students in Fordham Law’s Democracy and Constitution Clinic wrote an op-ed, published in Medium, arguing that presidential backgrounds are...
View ArticleReview: A Bronx Tale
Nicholas D. Sawicki ’21, Fordham Law student and special assistant to the president and editor in chief of America Media, wrote a book review of Dean Emeritus John D. Feerick’s (’61) memoir That...
View ArticleOpportunity Zones Haven’t Fully Reached Their Potential, But Don’t Write Them...
Third-year Fordham Law Student Charlie Metzger, associate editor of the Fordham Urban Law Journal, co-authored an article for Fortune that examines the Opportunity Zones initiative and its potential to...
View ArticleFordham Law Kicks Off First Annual Wellness Week
The Office of Professionalism is expanding upon Fordham Law’s annual Mental Health Day by launching the Law School’s first-ever Wellness Week. Doubling down on the school’s already robust wellness...
View ArticleWill Lanier ’23 Honored by Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
Will Lanier ’23 (recently profiled as one of our #futurefordhamlawyers) was named Patient Advocate of the Year at the 53rd Annual Great Gutsby Gala, presented by the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s...
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