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Second Circuit Court Visits Fordham Law
As part of its yearlong 125th anniversary celebration, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit visited Fordham Law on February 22 for a day in residence. Nine judges from the court...
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Grad Ed Students Talk Teamwork With Law Students
GSE student Liat Zabludovsky, left discussed the results of the MBTI assessment with Law School students Bronwyn Roantree and Elizabeth Snyder. Photos by Dana Maxson Students in Fordham Law’s Advanced...
View ArticleSome Children Left Behind
America’s zero-tolerance approach to public school discipline has created an epidemic of suspensions and expulsions that punishes everyday behavior, disproportionately targets African-American...
View ArticleFordham Reaches Quarterfinals in International Mediation Competition
A team of two students from Fordham Law’s Dispute Resolution Society advanced twice to reach the quarterfinal round last month at the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Commercial...
View ArticleLaw Students Of The Year: Lorena Jiron, Fordham School of Law
Fordham Law student Lorena Jiron ‘17 was featured in National Jurist’s 2017 “Law Student of the Year” special issue list. Lorena Jiron was raised in Miami by a single mother, who immigrated to the...
View ArticleCriminal Defense Clinic Fights NYPD Transit Recidivist Policy
One semester after arguing the case before the New York Civil Supreme Court, Fordham Law School’s Criminal Defense Clinic is continuing its fight to have the NYPD’s transit recidivist policy, which...
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Fordham Trial Advocacy Teams Enjoy Spring Triumphs
Student members of Fordham Law’s Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center have, over the past three weeks, notched a quartet of rousing successes in national competition. Since the beginning of March, teams...
View ArticleFordham Law Wins Cardozo Moot Court Competition
Fordham Law School bested 25 teams from across the country to capture the 2017 Cardozo/BMI Entertainment and Communications Law Moot Court Competition earlier this month in New York City. The 2L team...
View ArticleFordham Student Wins National Award for Writing on Legal Ethics
The Burton Awards for Legal Achievement has honored Fordham Law School student Joshua Liebman ’17 with a 2017 Distinguished Legal Writing Award. The Burton Awards, a nonprofit program administrated in...
View ArticleWhen Pro Sports Effects Social Change
The Fordham Sports Law Forum’s 21st Annual Symposium convened on March 24 with a dynamic group of front-office executives, player agents, legal scholars, and journalists addressing cutting-edge issues...
View ArticleImmigration Advocacy Project Wins New York State Pro Bono Award
The Immigration Advocacy Project, one of Fordham Law’s public service student groups, received the 2017 NYSBA President’s Pro Bono Service Award for its outstanding volunteer efforts on the behalf of...
View ArticleGrowing Number of Public Schools Instruct Students How to Be Safe Online
Fordham Law’s five-week privacy program was featured in an NY1 Spectrum News video. The video also features Andrea Flink, privacy fellow at Fordham Law. “We talk about location services and how not...
View ArticleFordham Clinics Win Soap Trademark Case
Lincoln Square Legal Services, Inc., the nonprofit law firm running many of Fordham Law’s clinics, scored a major court victory this spring for a Long Island bath products manufacturer embroiled in a...
View ArticleFederal Tax Clinic Scores Victory for Client Denied Hardship Waiver by IRS
Students in Professor Elizabeth Maresca’s Federal Tax Clinic recently won a victory for a man whose hardship waiver for an IRA rollover had been denied by the IRS. The below analysis of the case was...
View ArticleA Service-Oriented Spring in Their Step
Whether investigating racial matters in Havana, advocating for asylum seekers in Texas, or building a home in Florida, dozens of Fordham Law students served the public interest in a myriad of ways on...
View ArticleSpringtime Thaw
When Fordham Law Professor Catherine Powell and students Lorena Jiron and Tina Milburn visited Havana over spring break, the old buildings and vintage cars gave them the sensation that time had stood...
View ArticleStein Scholars Set to Expand Legal Knowledge Near and Far This Summer
This summer, members of Fordham Law School’s Stein Scholars program will promote the public good and advance their legal aptitude with domestic and international externships in a wide variety of fields...
View ArticleNY AG Eric Schneiderman Addresses Fordham Law Graduates
New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman served as the graduation speaker at Fordham Law School’s 110th Law School Diploma Ceremony on Monday, May 22. The ceremony was held on Fordham...
View ArticleLeading the Way to Careers in Justice
Throughout the summer, Fordham Law School will host a trio of programs aimed at preparing high school and college students from underrepresented communities for careers in the legal field. Students...
View ArticleRecent Fordham Grad Honored with Scholarship for Aspiring Latino Attorneys
On July 27, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund named recent Fordham alumna Lorena Jiron ’17 as one of its 2016–2017 Law School Scholarship Program recipients. A civil rights...
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