Federal Litigation Clinic Students Claim Victory in Second Circuit Court Case
A group of Fordham Law students participating in the Federal Litigation Clinic claimed a recent victory when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in their favor in a discrimination...
View ArticleA New Kind of Prosecution
3L Stein Scholar Dana Kai-el McBeth appeared in a recent New Yorker article for two questions she posed to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner at a Fordham Law event. The magazine also...
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Dispute Resolution Society Off to Wonderful Fall Start
Fordham Law School’s Dispute Resolution Society launched its fall 2018 campaign in spectacular fashion with a regional championship at one competition and two award recipients at another. The 2L team...
View ArticleHousing Justice Advocate Akilah Browne Awarded Skadden Fellowship
“Right now, there are people being pushed out, but I’m most concerned for the people in the margins who are not being protected by affordable housing.” – Akilah Browne Native New Yorker Akilah Browne...
View ArticleRemembering William Pickering Jones III ’20
The Fordham Law community is mourning the death of William Pickering Jones III ’20. Will passed away on Christmas day, Tuesday, December 25. He was 27. “I came to know Will well during his time at...
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Brazilian Federal Labor Judge Attends Fordham’s LL.M. Program
Judge Milena Barreto Pontes Sodré In her native Brazil, Federal Labor Judge Milena Barreto Pontes Sodré presides for eight to 10 hours each day over disputes that are destined to move slowly through a...
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Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center Fall Competitions
This past fall semester the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center fielded teams at a number of prestigious interscholastic trial competitions across the country, earning winning results at many. The...
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Fordham 1L Team Wins Baseball Arbitration Competition
A trio of Fordham 1Ls in the Sports Law Forum bested 40 teams from across the country to claim the championship trophy at Tulane Law School’s International Baseball Arbitration Competition, held in New...
View ArticleA Former Child Soldier Tells How UNICEF Aided His Transition to Peace
Fordham Law 1L student Mohamed Sidibay was interviewed by Forbes about his life as a Revolutionary United Front child soldier and what inspired him to become a lawyer. What was your life like before...
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Displays of Courage
“The stories of our honorees remind us that those of us who are part of the Fordham community have an obligation.” – Professor Robin Lenhardt In the summer of 1924, Ruth Whitehead Whaley, the first...
View ArticleDoes Supervised Injection Make it Safe?
The United States is in the throes of an opioid crisis. A recent report by the National Safety Council has revealed that it is statistically more likely for Americans to die from an opioid overdose...
View ArticleFordham Law Review Online Publishes All-Woman Issue
For the first time in its history, the Fordham Law Review Online has published an all-woman authored issue of the publication, in honor of the School’s celebration of 100 Years of Women. The issue was...
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Moore Advocates Emerge as Champions in Regional Competition, Advance to...
A team of Fordham Law students from the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center won the New York Regional of the American Association for Justice Student Trial Advocacy Competition, which took place the...
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Fordham Student Awarded NLG Haywood Burns Fellowship
For 1L Luna Garzón-Montano, public interest work is a natural inclination. “I feel like I have a sense of purpose when I do this kind of work,” she says. Garzón-Montano, a native New Yorker and Vassar...
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Fordham’s Moot Court Team Victories
This winter, two of Fordham’s moot court teams triumphed in media and international law competitions. On March 17, Fordham’s team won the national championship in the Cardozo/BMI Entertainment and...
View ArticleAccess to Justice Leaders
Fordham Law School was the first to be profiled in an article in the spring 2019 issue of PreLaw Magazine. It identifies 10 law schools that are at the forefront of the access to justice movement...
View ArticleFor the Poor, Tax Law Change Eases the Burden a Little
Fordham Law student Daria Schieferstein along with classmates Elaina Aquila, Gaby Kornblau, Rachel Smith, and Sam Zuckerman wrote an op-ed featured in Times Union, Albany’s daily newspaper, discussing...
View ArticleTalking to the Law Student With a Novel Theory About Amazon’s Power
Fordham Law student, Shaoul Sussman ’19, was featured in a New York Magazine article talking about his recent paper, in which he argues that Amazon’s business practices violate antitrust laws. With its...
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Robert Chislett, From The Army To The Classroom
Robert Chislett ’21 had an eventful first year at Fordham Law. While attending the School’s evening program, he received an honorable mention for the Peter Fugiel Scholarship, co-founded a tech...
View ArticleDaniel Katter ’20 Wins Energy Law Writing Competition
Daniel Katter ’20 has won the 2019 edition of the Hartrick Scholar Writing Competition of the Institute for Energy Law. In addition to receiving a $2,500 prize, the Fordham Law student was also invited...
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