Fordham Law Holds 24th Annual IPLJ Symposium
Fordham Law School’s 24th annual IPLJ symposium, held on September 30, featured exciting and wide-ranging discussions on cutting-edge topics such as viral videos, the changing landscape of antitrust...
View ArticleMeet Three New J.D. Students
This fall, Fordham Law welcomed 401 new J.D. students to the School. The students come from 23 states, three provinces, and the District of Columbia. Over 130 different colleges and universities are...
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An Impressive LL.M. Class
Members of this year’s incoming Fordham LL.M. class have sprinted in Olympic trials, litigated high-value cases before international courts, and volunteered on a presidential campaign. Amid their...
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Moore Advocates Start Fall in Spectacular Fashion
The Brendan Moore Trial Advocates started their fall 2016 campaign in spectacular fashion, winning the Florida National Trial Advocacy Tournament and finishing second at the Mockingbird Challenge...
View ArticleFordham Offers Pioneering M.S.L. Programs
Seventeen M.S.L. candidates joined Fordham Law earlier this fall. The new students join 12 returning M.S.L. students, all of whom specialize in one of two fields: corporate compliance or fashion law....
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Fordham Law Welcomes Four Distinguished S.J.D. candidates
Earlier this fall, Fordham Law welcomed four new candidates into its prestigious Doctor of Juridicial Science (S.J.D.) degree program. These new students join 15 doctoral candidates who are continuing...
View ArticleNitza Escalera Appointed Inaugural Dean of Diversity Initiatives
Nitza Milagros Escalera has been appointed Fordham Law’s first assistant dean of diversity initiatives. She will hold the position concurrently with her longtime position of assistant dean for student...
View ArticleStudents in Federal Tax Clinic Continue Fight Over Driver’s License...
Last week, students from Fordham Law’s Tax Clinic, under the guidance of Professor Elizabeth Maresca, filed suit in New York County Supreme Court, challenging a state tax statute that strips tax...
View ArticleFordham Law Student Honored for Winning Inaugural Latino Judges Association...
Fordham Law student Andrea Rodriguez ’18 was recently honored by Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Joanne Quinones ’97 for having served as the inaugural participant in the Latino Judges Association’s...
View ArticleAppellate Litigation Clinic Wins Second Circuit Case
A Fordham Law School Appellate Litigation Clinic team consisting of four part-time evening students and two LL.M. students from France recently won a case before the United States Court of Appeals for...
View ArticleFordham Law Student Honored for Helping to Prosecute Government Contracting...
Last month, Fordham Law student and Stein Scholar William Passannante ’19 was honored, along with a team of prosecutors, for his work relating to a sizable government-contracting fraud. The prosecution...
View ArticleFordham Law Wins Pepperdine Entertainment Law Moot Court Championship
Fordham Law School bested 20 other law schools from across the country to win the 19th Annual Pepperdine Entertainment Law Moot Court Competition earlier this month in California. The 2L team featuring...
View ArticleLL.M. Student Named One of Best Lawyers in Spain
Fordham Law LL.M. student Luis Divar has been named one of the best lawyers in Spain by Best Lawyers, one of the oldest peer-review publications in the legal profession. Divar has been recognized in...
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Turkey Native Becomes Fordham Law’s Fifth S.J.D. Graduate
A decade ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg provided Zehra G. Kavame Eroglu a prescient piece of advice during a two-week summer school law course she taught in Istanbul. Attend an...
View ArticleImmigration Rights Clinic Students Prevent a Father’s Deportation
Earlier this month, students from Fordham Law Professor Gemma Solimene’s Immigrant Rights Clinic succeeded in halting the deportation of a lawful permanent resident of the United States whose...
View ArticleFamiliar Discoveries
After a paralegal career in e-discovery, Joshua Demopoulos finds Fordham Law—and a family. When Joshua Demopoulos ’17 received his undergraduate degree from NYU, he had many academic interests, but no...
View ArticleInvesting in Community
Near the beginning of his Urban Lab capstone presentation, 2L Frank Kearl directed his teachers and classmates to a slide featuring a map of the Bronx that showed three different-colored dots connected...
View ArticleGetting Educated
Family Advocacy Clinic succeeds in yearlong struggle for student’s special education rights. Students from Fordham Law’s Family Advocacy Clinic recently secured a Brooklyn high school student access to...
View ArticleFordham Law Alumnus Featured As Associate-To-Watch in Chambers & Partners...
Fordham Law LL.M. student Esteban Maira has been featured as an associate-to-watch in Chambers & Partners Latin America-Chile in Real Estate. Read the full profile.
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Warm Welcome
On February 6, Fordham Law students, accompanied by Dean Matthew Diller and Assistant Dean Tom Schoenherr, gathered at JFK airport’s Terminal 1 to support their fellow student Fahimeh (Farimah)...
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