On May 19, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mr. Preet Bharara, will deliver the commencement speech for Fordham Law School’s 106th graduation ceremony. If you would like a relatively short, and decidedly bland, bio of Preet, you can check out the official Fordham Law description. On the other hand, if you’d rather find out what …
Read the full story »Faculty Award Winners to be Honored at Graduation
Each year before graduation, Fordham Law students honor individuals in the Fordham community. This year, Professor Joseph Landau was selected as Teacher of the Year, Judge Richard J. Sullivan was named Adjunct of the Year, and Hillary Exter, Director of Student Organizations and Publicity at the Public Interest Resource Center, was given the Eugene O. Keefe award.
Landau, famous for his enthusiastic approach to Civil Procedure, said he enjoys teaching the topic “because it provides lawyers with a framework based on certain foundational premises—party autonomy, efficiency and fairness—and gives lawyers mechanisms for thinking creatively about how to resolve unforeseen problems that arise in litigation.” Read the full story »
Dean Martin Comments on Fordham Law’s Nine-Place Rankings Drop
In March the US News and World graduate school rankings listed Fordham Law at 38 out of 194 law schools, a nine-place drop from the law school’s place at 29 in 2012. This year, Fordham tied with University of Arizona (Rogers) and University of California-Davis.
Several specialty programs received consistently favorable US News rankings, including the dispute resolution program (12), clinical …
Evening Student Struggles with Administration Over Unclear Policies
In January, Sarah (her name has been changed to protect her privacy) began petitioning administrators at Fordham Law to take her Constitutional Law exam early, but her request was repeatedly denied. According to the Registrar’s rules governing examinations, students can only take exams up to one day early, and only for religious reasons. Sarah requested to schedule her exam a …
Law Review: 42
Watching 42, Brian Helgeland’s film about color-barrier breaking baseball player Jackie Robinson, leaves viewers with a number of questions. Why, for instance, have we waited so long for a major Jackie Robinson biopic? There have been a few attempts to tell the story of his life, but it has been a while since one of quality came out. Robinson played …
Right to Choose?
During the past two years, the right to choose has experienced an unprecedented attack at the state level. Several states have passed laws that limit access to abortions or effectively ban abortions completely. For example, North Dakota recently enacted a law that bans abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detectable—as early as six weeks into pregnancy. Arkansas adopted a similar …
SBA Announces Policy Changes in Funding at Student Leaders Meeting
At the last student leaders meeting of the year this past April 24, outgoing SBA President Chris Rodriguez announced that unused student group funds will now roll over to the larger SBA budget from year to year.
Until the change, finalized last week, all unused SBA funding was returned to the greater Fordham University account and would have to be reallocated …
Law Review: Alpha House
For those of us who plowed through the first season of Netflix’s House of Cards within 48 hours of its release, waiting for Season 2 seems like a daunting prospect. Fortunately, Netflix’s would-be competitor Amazon is trying to fill the gap with Alpha House, a more humorous take on the business of governance. In a devious marketing ploy, Amazon has released the full …
Moot Court Prepares for Intra-school Competitions
The Fordham Moot Court Board is thrilled to announce the completion of another successful year for the program in 2012-2013. Under the unparalleled guidance of Professor Maria Marcus, the Board competed in seven different competitions across the country, fielding six teams comprised of second-year students, and one team, the National Team, comprised of the three top third-year students. By the …
Have we forgotten about the North Korean people?
North Koreans live in a fragile economy under institutionalized oppression. The United Nations Children’s Fund reports that an estimated six million North Koreans are living without adequate food allotments and as many as forty percent of all North Korean children are physically stunted from malnutrition. Though information must be digested with apprehension due to the lack of verifiable internal sources, …
In Response to “North Korea’s Gaddafi Nightmare”
Contrary to Robert Baer’s hypothesis published in TIME earlier last week, “what’s going through the mind of the North Korean regime” is not primarily a fear of meeting the same fate as Muammar Gaddafi or Saddam Hussein. Baer claimed he knew the real reason behind North Korea’s refusal to concede to pushback from the United States. His contentions, which also …
Sheila Bair: Main Street’s Protector?
On April 8, Sheila Bair, former chairman of the FDIC from 2006 to 2011, spoke at the inaugural Fred Dunbar Memorial Lecture on Law and Economics on the topic of “Ending Too Big to Fail” and her recent book “Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself.” The talk was informative …
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