Entrepreneurial Law Clinic Holds One-Day Legal Clinic for Small Business Owners
Students of Fordham Law’s Entrepreneurial Law Clinic recently conducted their first one-day legal clinic with Community Capital New York. Collaborating with alumnus William Malpica ’00, a partner in...
View Article100 Years after Their Welcome, Women Students Lead
In September 1918, Fordham Law School welcomed its first cohort of women students. Eight women dared to study alongside 312 men. Three years later, three of those women earned their law degrees and...
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Breaking the Ban
“It’s still hard for me to understand why they would consider us a threat to this country. This is truly affecting ordinary people, and it’s not right.” – Fahimeh (Farimah) Kashkooli LL.M. ’17 Fordham...
View ArticleTax Debt Law Harshly Affects Low-income Earners
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...
View Article2Ls Rooney and Toscano Win 2018 Tendy Competition
2Ls Patrick Rooney III and Elise Toscano won this year’s William M. Tendy Federal Criminal Trial Advocacy Competition, the annual internal trial tournament of Fordham Law School’s Brendan Moore Trial...
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Students Participate in Medical Malpractice Mock Trial
“What’s unique about this class is not only the participation of residents and teachers from St. Barnabas but the facts of the case—the witness statements and the depositions—were developed organically...
View Article3L Lisa Zivkovic Wins Writing Competition for Data Protection Paper
3L Lisa Zivkovic has won the 2018 Trandafir Award for a paper that addresses conflicts between the EU’s new data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation, and a decades-old U.S. privacy...
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Feerick Center Honored for Work with Asylum Seekers
John D. Feerick, founder and senior counsel of the Feerick Center, Samuel H. Franklin, president of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Dora Galacatos, executive director of the Feerick Center,...
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Law Clinic Provides Helping Hand for New Business Owners
Fordham graduate students Kelly Davis, Amanda Sylia-Ng, Hollis Schwanz, Roberto Cortinas, Fannie Law, Anthony Palma, ConBody owner Coss Marte; and Entrepreneurial Law Clinic director Bernice Grant Coss...
View ArticleKei Komuro to attend Fordham Law
Kei Komuro, a paralegal at the Okuno & Partners law firm in Japan, will attend Fordham Law School starting in August. Mr. Komuro and Japan’s Princess Mako announced in September 2017 that they plan...
View ArticleFamily Advocacy Clinic Partners with Medical Center for One-Day Clinic
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...
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How Does a Child Soldier Grow Up?
Across the globe, an estimated 264 million children—enough individuals to rank as the fourth most populous nation on earth—currently lack access to education. When Mohamed Sidibay speaks on their...
View ArticleFordham Law Applications Outpace National Trend
“Students understand that a Fordham Law degree opens a lot of doors. They walk away from their visit understanding that this is going to provide them a strong return on their investment.” – Kathryn...
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Fordham Law Kicks Off 100 Years of Women
In September 1918, four words were added to an otherwise customary advertisement that Fordham Law had placed in the New York Times announcing the beginning of fall classes. As brief as the statement...
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Armed Forces Appeals Court Hears Oral Arguments at Fordham
On September 13, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces heard oral arguments in Fordham Law’s Gorman Moot Court Room for a sexual assault case involving two active members of the U.S....
View ArticleRecord Number of Students Volunteer for Public Service Day
A record number of Fordham Law students volunteered their time to important legal and non-legal causes during this year’s Public Service Day. Around 140 students participated in nine projects organized...
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Fordham Welcomes Outstanding J.D. Class
Last month, Fordham Law School welcomed 417 incoming J.D. students who hailed from approximately 35 states, and possess, on average, three to four years of work experience. Meet three of them below....
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S.J.D. Students Investigate Solitary Confinement, Anti-Corruption Measures
Earlier this fall, Fordham Law welcomed a pair of highly accomplished candidates into its prestigious Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) degree program. These new students join 15 doctoral candidates...
View ArticleStein Scholar Wins Environmental Writing Competition
On October 20, Fordham Law 3L and Stein Scholar Rachel Manning ’19 will receive an award for her first place finish in the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) Professor William R. Ginsberg Memorial...
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Gender Equality and the First Amendment
When Elisa D’Amico ’06 meets with clients who have been the victims of revenge porn, the term used for the dissemination of sexually explicit photographs or videos of a person online without that...
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