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Be Aware of Bias
As part of the School’s ongoing diversity initiatives, Fordham Law held a lunchtime lecture on August 30 to educate the entering 1L class about the idea of implicit bias and its relevance to the legal...
View ArticleReal Estate–Focused Student Group Launches
The Fordham Law Real Estate Society launched Oct. 17 with an event featuring three industry leaders discussing the varied career opportunities available for students entering the field. The Real Estate...
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Five Fulbright Scholars in Entering LL.M. Class
Of the 124 LL.M. students who entered Fordham Law this fall, five are Fulbright scholars. The Fulbright Scholarship is a merit-based international academic exchange program created by J. William...
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Urban Law Journal Hosts Food Policy Colloquium
The Fordham Urban Law Journal hosted its 2017 Cooper-Walsh Colloquium, “Taking a Bite out of the Big Apple: A Conversation About Urban Food Policy,” on Oct. 20. The colloquium, which addressed the...
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Moore Advocates Successful In Fall Competitions
The Brendan Moore Trial Advocates achieved tremendous team and individual success in three national competitions during the first weekend of November. A Moore team consisting of 3Ls finished runner-up,...
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What Does It Mean To Have A Right to the City?
Right to the city scholars and activists shared historical perspectives and contemporary grassroots insights into the global phenomenon during an Urban Law Center event on Nov. 9. The lunchtime...
View ArticleMoot Court Team Reaches Finals In Regional Competition
Fordham Law School reached the finals in the regional rounds of the National Moot Court Competition, the country’s premier moot court event, on Nov. 16 at the New York City Bar Association. The 3L team...
View ArticleDispute Resolution Society Off To Outstanding Fall Start
Fordham Law School’s Dispute Resolution Society launched its fall campaign in outstanding fashion reaching the finals in two prestigious competitions in New York this month. The 2L DRS arbitration team...
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Stein Scholars Sharpen Legal Tools With Externships
This semester, members of Fordham Law School’s Stein Scholars Program have utilized the legal tools and knowledge they obtained participating in domestic and international externships this summer to...
View ArticleArtist Representation Society Launches
Though artists enrich society’s culture and its members’ imaginations, they are often deprived of justice. Fordham Law’s Artist Representation Society, a new organization of the Public Interest...
View ArticleMasterpiece of Talent
The art of making it in the Big Apple Alex Kirk was raised in Dallas, Texas, but she was destined for New York City. The daughter of a lawyer, she was raised with a deep appreciation for the law. “When...
View ArticleProfessing Her View
For LL.M. student Wejdan Alhaid, studying corporate law is her own business. As a young woman growing up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital and most populous city, Fordham Law School LL.M. student...
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A Silver Anniversary More Precious than Gold
Twenty-Five Years of Service with the Stein Scholars Program In the early 1990s, Professor Bruce Green observed an emerging core of Fordham Law students who were oriented toward public interest work...
View ArticleImmigrant Rights Clinic Wins Asylum for Chadian Man
After years of research and preparation, students in the Immigrant Rights Clinic have helped an African man secure asylum in the United States. The man had suffered punishment for his sexual...
View ArticleEmbracing Diversity, Empowering the Next Generation
“I’m a big believer in paying it forward,” said 3L Khasim Lockhart, a community-minded individual who, in all his professional activities, seeks to promote the success of black and diverse law...
View ArticleFordham Law Student Wins Tax Law Writing Award
3L evening division student Michael Benison, a certified public accountant, has won second place in the 2018 Donald C. Alexander Tax Law Writing Competition, sponsored by the Federal Bar Association...
View ArticleNew Historical Society Student Group to Host Presidential Succession Event
On April 24, the Fordham Law Historical Society will co-host with the Feerick Center for Social Justice an event on presidential succession, which will feature a discussion of the New York court system...
View ArticleDRS Team Competes in National Representation in Mediation Event
Fordham Law’s Dispute Resolution Society seeks to wrap its spring campaign in victorious fashion this week when it participates in the American Bar Association’s 19th Annual National Representation in...
View ArticleFordham Wins Jessup Moot Court Regional Championship
Fordham Law won the championship as well as the best brief award in the south region of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, held Feb. 21–24 in New Orleans. The team consisted...
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More Success for Brendan Moore Trial Advocates
Fordham Law’s Brendan Moore Trial Advocates, which contributed to the recent ranking of the School’s trial advocacy program as No. 12th in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, won victories in...
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