CLIPS OF THE WEEK
Fordham Law School Commencement Ceremony
New York Law Journal 05-24-18
Fordham Law School held its commencement ceremony at the Bronx campus on Tuesday, May 22.
Catholic activist who resisted white supremacist in Charlottesville faces jail time
National Catholic Reporter 05-25-18
Eric Martin, a theology student at Fordham University who is writing his dissertation while living in Charlottesville, decided to enter the office in the law library and quietly sit across the table from the “Unite the Right” organizer.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
FBI overestimated the number of encrypted phones while arguing for work-arounds
ABA Journal 05-24-18
In the remarks given at the FBI International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University in New York City, Wray talked about the “Going Dark” problem, where encryption hides communications from law enforcement even after the phone has been taken into evidence.
Campus Notebook: Student research critiques poverty laws; Marylhurst to close
National Catholic Reporter 05-25-18
Fordham University’s Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies has received an endowment from the trust of Catholic 20th-century fiction writer Flannery O’Connor, the university announced on its website May 15.
Three Questions With Kevin Burke, President And CEO, ACI-NA
Airport Review News 05-25-18
That’s why ACI-NA has partnered with Edge4Vets, a national training program for veterans developed by the Human Resiliency Institute at Fordham University, to prepare and connect veterans to jobs that can lead to airport careers throughout the United States and Canada.
AROUND TOWN: Events, Seminars, Meetings & Talks
Real Estate Weekly 05-25-18
May 30: Fordham Real Estate Institute and The Business Council of Westchester forum: Real Estate’s Next Revolution – From The Amazon Effect to Cannabis Legalization will take place from 8:00-10:00 a.m. at the University’s West Harrison campus and will focus on the state of adaptive reuse throughout the County.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
VINCENT R. CAPPUCCI
Founding Partner Vincent R. Cappucci Participates in Fordham Law School 111th Diploma Ceremony
WBTW News 13 05-29-18
On Tuesday, May 22, 2018, Founding Partner Vincent R. Cappucci presented Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., with an honorary degree, honoris causa, at Fordham Law School?s 111th Law School Diploma Ceremony.
SCHOOL OF LAW
Fordham Law School Commencement Ceremony
Law.com 05-24-18
Fordham Law School held its commencement ceremony at the Bronx campus on Tuesday, May 22.
SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY
SUSAN SCAFIDI
The Italy Humans of Fashion Foundation party
Vogue Italia 05-23-18
At the party were present: Kristina Romanova (Vera Wang, Ralph Lauren, Dolce & Gabbana), the lawyer Antoniette Costa , Susan Scafidi (Founder and Academic Director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School) and Toni Garrn (actress and Founder of the Toni Garrn Foundation).
[Translated from Italian]
N. CAMERON RUSSELL
GDPR Inc.: Profiting From Strict New Security Rules
Nasdaq.com 05-23-18
Fordham Law School professor Cameron Russell calls the circumstances leading to GDPR “a perfect storm” of political and business circumstances, starting with Edward Snowden’s disclosure in 2013 of global surveillance programs and intensifying amid a rash of data incidents the past several years, most notably political consultant Cambridge Analytica’s harvesting of information from 87 million Facebook profiles without their permission.
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Teachout vows to take on Wall Street, public corruption
Times Union 05-23-18
Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout confirmed to the Times Union on Wednesday that she intends to launch a bid for attorney general, and will formally launch her campaign in the coming weeks.
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Zephyr Teachout Is Running For Attorney General of New York
The Cut 05-23-18
[Zephyr] Teachout, a Fordham Law professor who first made headlines when she ran against Andrew Cuomo in 2014’s gubernatorial primaries, recently told the Cut that her platform would include fighting against corruption (a topic on which she literally wrote the book), mass incarceration, and Wall Street and real-estate monopolies.
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Zephyr Teachout Is Running for Attorney General While Pregnant
The Cut 05-27-18
[Zephyr] Teachout, 46, a constitutional law professor at Fordham [University], is due in October.
LAWRENCE B. BRENNAN
Navy walks back homicide charge against former McCain CO
Navy Times 05-23-18
Trying Sanchez in a special court-martial instead of general court-martial suggests the Navy “was not intent on obtaining serious punishment if the CO was convicted,” according to Lawrence Brennan, a retired Navy captain, military attorney and professor at the Fordham University School of Law in New York.
DAVID A. ANDELMAN
Diplomacy is harder when you’re simply shouting the loudest
CNN 05-25-18
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and director of its Red Lines Project, is a contributor to CNN where his columns won the 2017 Deadline Club Award for Best Opinion Writing.
JED SHUGERMAN
Op-Ed: Who Judges The Judges?
Your Tewskbury Today 05-25-18
Professor Jed Shugerman, a graduate of the top-ranked Yale Law School and now a professor at Fordham [University], did a terrific in-depth study of elected judges that eventually he published into a book.
JED SHUGERMAN
All In with Chris Hayes
MSNBC 05-24-18
Here to help me understand what’s really going on here…Fordham Law Professor Jed Shugerman.
JENNIFER L. GORDON
Want to Make Money Like a C.E.O.? Work for 275 Years
The New York Times 05-25-18
“Particularly in low-wage jobs, people are struggling to pay for housing, for health insurance, for child care,” said Jennifer Gordon, a law professor at Fordham University.
JENNIFER L. GORDON
The 200 highest-paid CEO rankings are out. And … cue pitchforks and kerosene torches?
Big Think 05-25-18
Here’s Jennifer Gordon, a law professor at Fordham University, with at least one answer: “The top layer of management live like kings and queens while the people at the bottom are scrabbling for a decent existence. We should not have that in a society where equality and fairness supposedly matter.”
JOEL R. REIDENBERG
Predictive algorithms are infiltrating schools — here’s why that’s a good thing
The Next Web 05-27-18
Joel [R.] Reidenberg, director of the Center on Law & Information Policy at Fordham Law School, quickly answered, “Just think George Orwell, and take it to the nth degree.”
MARC L. EDELMAN
Letters: NFL may not have right to impose no-kneeling rule
IndyStar 05-28-18
I [Marc L. Edelman] write this letter not just as a practicing attorney in the field of sports law, but also as a tenured law professor at Baruch College and a longstanding adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School.
BRUCE A. GREEN
ABA event includes programs on ‘alternative facts’
Legal News 05-29-18
[Bruce A.] Green, who holds the Louis Stein Chair at Fordham University School of Law, directs the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics.
CAROLE L. BASRI
Ending national cultural expropriation
Jewish News Syndicate 05-29-18
Carole [L.] Basri is a writer is a lawyer of Iraqi Jewish descent, an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School and visiting professor at Peking University School of Transnational Law, and a former member of the U.S. State Department’s Future of Iraq Project.
DEBORAH W. DENNO
The controversial debut of genes in criminal cases
BBC 05-30-18
“These cases are extremely complicated. So many factors are involved,” says Deborah [W.] Denno, a professor of law at Fordham University in New York City.
ANDREW KENT
Bloomberg Radio
Bloomberg 05-24-18
Andrew Kent comments on Donald Trump’s interference in criminal investigations.
GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY
MARK CONRAD
After Supreme Court Decision, the Business of Sports Is About to Change Radically. This Expert Explains What You Need to Know.
Inc. 05-23-18
Mark Conrad is a professor of law and ethics at Fordham University, where he has taught in the School of Law and in the Gabelli School of Business.
MARK CONRAD
Years into concussion lawsuit, Jacobs and other NHL owners deny knowledge of CTE
TSN 05-28-18
Mark Conrad, director of the sports business concentration at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University in New York, said he believes NHL owners have avoided learning anything about CTE and other neurocognitive diseases as a legal strategy.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE FACULTY
GENISHA MONE WALLACE-METCALF
UWS Parents Continue Debate Over Middle School Integration Plan: Gothamist ⋆ New York city blog
New York City-Epeak 05-24-18
Genisha [Mone Wallace-]Metcalf, an adjunct professor at Fordham University and member of the Community Education Council, pointed out that the plan does nothing to improve resources to any of the district’s five lowest performing schools, all of which are in Harlem.
TINA M. MASCHI
Alternative needed for elderly, sick Mass. inmates
The Boston Globe 05-27-18
If an offender is released from prison and lands in a purely medical facility, the cost to taxpayers should be smaller, says Tina Maschi, a Fordham University professor who has studied compassionate release.
ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
CHRISTINA GREER
History made as Democrats choose first black woman and first openly lesbian governor candidates
The Independent 05-23-18
“I was celebrating last night, but today I am working,” said Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University in New York, who was in Atlanta to watch Ms Abrams’ win.
CHRISTINA GREER
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
New York Amsterdam News 05-24-18
Christina Greer, Ph.D., is the 2018 NYU McSilver Institute Fellow and an associate professor at Fordham University, the author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream” and the host of The Aftermath on Ozy.com.
CHRISTINA GREER
Stacey Abrams’s supporters aren’t afraid of identity politics
The Washington Post 05-25-18
“She is a black woman doing this fully in her blackness,” said Christina Greer, a political-science professor at Fordham University.
CHRISTINA GREER
Primary Fight in South Jersey Exposes Rift in Democratic Party
WNYC 05-30-18
Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University, says it’s wrong-headed for the party to spend millions trying to convince conservative white men to vote Democratic, instead of focusing on rallying black, Latino and young people to vote.
STEVEN B. STOLL
‘The Most Important Year,’ Poetry on Your Commute, A Retelling of Appalachian History
WNYC 05-25-18
Steven Stoll, a professor of history at Fordham University, talks about his book Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia.
ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ
White Plains couple turns pain into positive message
News 12 Westchester 05-24-18
Orlando Rodriguez, who is a sociology professor at Fordham University, says he gained solace by talking to his students about that fateful day.
CELIA B. FISHER
Teens Can Now Get HIV Drug… Will They Use It?
Healthline 05-25-18
But, according to Celia B. Fisher, PhD, professor of psychology and director of HIV Prevention Research at Fordham University in New York, the issue may not be that simple.
BRYAN MASSINGALE, S.T.D.
Roman Catholic Church Anti-Racism Initiative
Bernews 05-28-18
“In addition to Dr. Olson, Dr. Bryan Massingale, senior theological and ethics professor of the Theological Department of Fordham University in New York City, will be the main presenter for the November 2 evening event.
LEONARD D. CASSUTO
On the Dissertation: How to Write the Introduction
The Chronicle of Higher Education 05-28-18
Leonard [D.] Cassuto, a professor of English at Fordham University, writes regularly about graduate education in this space.
NICHOLAS TAMPIO
Letters to the Editor Wednesday, May 30
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier 05-30-18
A recent acquisition by the Waterloo Public Library, “Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy” by Fordham University political scientist Nicholas Tampio, offers parents, educators and others a somewhat balanced but critical view of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
HEATHER D. GAUTNEY
Blue States, Red Diapers, White Hair
The Wall Street Journal 05-25-18
Ms. [Heather D.] Gautney is a sociologist at Fordham University, but in 2011 she took a temporary position in Mr. Sanders’s office.
STUDENTS
43rd Gracie Awards Honor Claire Danes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus & More
LATF USA 05-23-18
Combating Mental Health Issues in Public Schools, News Feature – Student – WFUV/Fordham University
Rhythms and routines in ordinary time
National Catholic Reporter 05-24-18
Brian Harper is a student and public service fellow in Fordham University’s Graduate Program in International Political Economy and Development.
Catholic activist who resisted white supremacist in Charlottesville faces jail time
National Catholic Reporter 05-25-18
Eric Martin, a theology student at Fordham University who is writing his dissertation while living in Charlottesville, decided to enter the office in the law library and quietly sit across the table from the “Unite the Right” organizer.
Military-Bound West Hartford Students Attend Ceremony in Their Honor
We-ha.com 05-29-18
Adam Giroux, who was honored last year at the Class of 2017 Military Inductee Ceremony, is now a member of the ROTC Naval program at Fordham University and provided advice to the soon-to-be graduates.
Education saved my life
The New Times 05-30-18
Now, in just a few months, I [Mohamed Sidibay] will begin graduate classes at the Fordham University School of Law, an unimaginable destination for most of the former child soldiers in my country.
ATHLETICS
Rams Ruggers Rising, Too
NY Sports Day 05-25-18
While their neighbors and longtime rivals to the north, Iona College, prep for the main draw of the Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby Championships next weekend at Talen Energy Stadium in Philadelphia, Fordham University will be riding a high of success into the Freedom Cup qualifier as well.
Fordham softball player joins Army’s ROTC program
News 12 The Bronx 05-25-18
Fordham star softball player Chelsea Skrepenak has started training for the United States Army.
WBNG Sports
WBNG 05-29-18
Paige Rauch won Atlantic-10 rookie of the year award.
ALUMNI
These 5 Catholic scientists shaped our understanding of the world
Aleteia.org 05-25-18
[Stanley L.] Jaki started teaching, but then had to leave his work after a tonsillectomy left him unable to speak. So he returned to school to study physics, earning his doctorate at Fordham University under Victor F. Hess, who discovered cosmic rays.
The Women’s International Music Network Announces 2018 Nashville She Rocks Summer Showcase Performers
The Country Note 05-26-18
New York native Karina Daza is an indie singer-songwriter who began her training as a classically trained vocalist at Fordham University, The Juilliard School, and The Music Conservatory of Granada in Spain.
OBITUARIES
Frank N. Zullo, 85, Of Norwalk, CT, attorney
Former Norwalk Mayor Frank N. Zullo dies at 85
Westfair Communications Online 05-29-18
A Norwalk native and graduate of Fordham University Law School, [Frank N.] Zullo began his law practice in 1957 and entered the partnership of Tierney & Zullo in 1959.
