International Mediation Team Wins at ICC in Paris
Fordham Law students on the international mediation team competed at the International Chamber of Commerce mediation competition in Paris, France this past month. The team won the Distinction in Public...
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Fordham Law students in the Center on Law and Information Policy’s Privacy Educators Program were featured in on CBS New York for their work educating New York public school students on online privacy...
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Assembly Member Aravella Simotas ’04 Speaks at Women’s History Month Event
To celebrate Women’s History Month, Fordham Law Women sponsored an event at the Law School on March 5 honoring women’s contributions from the suffrage movement until today. The featured speaker, New...
View ArticleFordham Law Student Nadav Ben Zur ’20 Wins National Legal Writing Award
Nadav Ben Zur ’20 first learned about the distinction between legislative and nonlegislative rules in his 1L Legislation and Regulation (“Leg-Reg”) class. This is an important concept in administrative...
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Nine Ways Law Students Can Practice Self-Care During the Coronavirus Outbreak
Throughout the year, Fordham Law School provides a wide range of services and support to help students with their mental health and well-being. Though the Law School’s physical facilities remain closed...
View ArticlePhysician and Law Student Maureen Zakowski ’20 is on the Front Lines of the...
By night, Dr. Maureen Zakowski ’20 is studying to earn her J.D. in Fordham Law’s evening program. By day, she is a pathologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, where healthcare providers are on the front lines...
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Fordham’s 45th Annual Kaufman Moot Court Competition Goes Remote Amid Pandemic
The annual Irving R. Kaufman Memorial Securities Law Moot Court Competition, held at Fordham Law School, honors Judge Kaufman, a Fordham alumnus who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the...
View ArticlePeter Friedman Founds Summer Fellowship to Honor His Grandmother Lillian...
In 1925, just seven years after Fordham Law School admitted its first women and one year after the first female graduated, Lillian Rosenbaum graduated from Fordham Law. Ninety-five years later, her...
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Law School Clinics Work to Help Prisoners Vulnerable to Coronavirus
Social distancing saves lives. But how are you supposed to guard against infection from the coronavirus if you’re trapped in an environment where social distancing is impossible? For the past five...
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Alex Berke ’14 Hosts Training Webinar on Workers’ Rights During the...
As the coronavirus outbreak unfolds, students have concerns about how the job market will be impacted and, in particular, their plans for summer employment. Employee attorney and former Fordham Law...
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Fordham Law Takes Trial Advocacy Online
As law schools around the country canceled their in-person events in response to the coronavirus pandemic, many students who had been preparing for trial advocacy competitions saw their hard work at...
View ArticleFordham Law to Host First-Ever Virtual Diploma Ceremony
On May 18, Fordham Law School will host its 113th annual diploma ceremony. Due to the coronavirus outbreak and the cancellation of all in-person events at Fordham University, this year’s ceremony will...
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Training Webinar Highlights Sexual Harassment in the Age of Telework
As work has transitioned from the office to the home during the coronavirus outbreak, sexual harassment will continue to be a workplace issue—even in a virtual setting—according to Alex Berke ’14, an...
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Rep. Thomas Suozzi ’89 Meets with Democracy Clinic
Congressman Thomas Suozzi ’89 recently met by videoconference with Fordham Law’s Democracy and the Constitution Clinic. The second-term congressman gave the students feedback on their proposals for...
View ArticleTwo Stein Scholars Awarded Equal Justice Works Fellowships
Two members of the graduating class of 2020, Emma-Lee Clinger and Maura Tracy, have been awarded prestigious postgraduate fellowships from Equal Justice Works (EJW), an organization dedicated to...
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Meet the #FutureFordhamLawyers
On Monday, May 18, Fordham Law School will celebrate the accomplishments of the 565 members of the Class of 2020 in its first-ever Virtual Diploma Ceremony (stream the videocast starting at 11:00 a.m....
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Fordham Law Celebrates the Class of 2020
On May 18, 2020, Fordham Law School celebrated the Class of 2020 with a first-ever virtual diploma ceremony. Over 2,000 people tuned in to watch a live videocast of the online celebration (the entire...
View ArticleLeitner Center Research Contributes to PEN America Report on the Right to...
A critical report on recent restrictions on the right to protest in the United States was released by PEN America this month, developed with research conducted by Fordham Law School students at the...
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Mariam Zein-El-Abdin ’22 Gives Back to Sudanese Community Impacted by COVID-19
As she was finishing her first year at Fordham Law School, Mariam Zein-El-Abdin ’22 added to her already packed schedule by helping to organize relief efforts for Sudanese immigrants whose health and...
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New Remote Networking Program Fosters Alumni-Student Relationships
As the coronavirus outbreak unfolded, not only did it disrupt the Law School’s traditional in-person curriculum, it also threatened crucial networking opportunities for students seeking to enter the...
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