Interesting op-ed by Michael Banerjee in Inside Higher Ed about another way universities can defend themselves from attacks on academic freedom and autonomy. Check it out!

So cool to see what my brilliant colleagues at Fordham Law (@fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social) have on their reading lists this summer, from Elias Canetti to Octavia Butler to Kazuo Ishiguro to @deborahnarcher.bsky.social. Check it out! news.law.fordham.edu/blog/2025/06...

Such a great panel at Law & Society discussing pedagogy and chapters from the forthcoming book Critical Evidence! Thanks to organizer Anna Roberts and panelists Andrea Dennis, Daniel Harawa, Ngozi Okidegbe, and Rebecca Wexler, with a special shoutout to my co-editor Julia Simon-Kerr!

Congrats to my @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social colleague Courtney Cox (@coxlaw.bsky.social) on being awarded the Distinguished Research Award for Interdisciplinary Studies for her recent article "The Uncertain Judge," 90 U. Chi. L. Rev. 739 (2023), and her current work on deception! Well-done!

So cool to see my brilliant @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social colleague Ethan Leib featured here in JOTWELL for his article "Good Faith in U.S. Constitutional Law," which Paul Horwitz (U of Ala. Law) identifies as one of the best works relating to Constitutional Law. conlaw.jotwell.com/i-love-beati...

Fordham Law’s queer student affinity group OUTLaws recently hosted its 12th annual symposium during Fordham’s 2025 Week of Abolition and discussed the consequences of federal, state, and local elections on LGBTQ+ rights. Read more about this year’s event: fordhamobserver.com/79891/recent...

It's live! Very proud of this piece I wrote with Jeffrey Bellin (@bellinj.bsky.social) for the Yale Law Journal. And thanks to Dave Pozen of Columbia Law School for writing such a provocative book for us to engage with! www.yalelawjournal.org/review/race-...

The number of Emirati women in the legal profession is steadily rising, but leadership roles remain elusive, according to Fordham Law graduate Maha Bin Hendi, LL.M. '13. Read more about her journey and the challenges women face in the profession, via @khaleejtimes.com:

Some photos from the first ever Critical Evidence Colloquium at Fordham Law (@fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social). Thanks to UPenn Law and UConn Law for co-sponsoring!

I couldn't resist weighing in on Trump's efforts to dismiss the criminal charges against Mayor Eric Adams. The title says it all. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Fordham Law's Center on Race, Law and Justice (@fordhamracelaw.bsky.social), in partnership with the Peer Defense Project, has developed a new toolkit aimed at preventing future gun violence by giving people information and tools needed to understand their constitutional rights.

Jamelle Bouie writes smart stuff, and this op-ed on the Trump-Musk partnership is no exception. Nice to see my Fordham Law colleagues Andrew Kent, Ethan Leib and coauthor Jed Shugerman cited for their Harvard L. Rev. article "Faithful Execution and Article II"! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

Fordham Law graduate Rochelle Swartz '14 returned to campus to discuss her ongoing pro bono work and involvement in "Nature of the Crime," a new HBO documentary that chronicles the journey of her longtime client as he repeatedly applies for and is denied parole.

Fordham Law rocks! And it’s a total honor to be on this list with Bruce Green and Ethan Leib, great colleagues and friends!

Wrote a little something for Slate on what should happen next. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Sassoon's letter resigning from her post as Acting US Attorney rather than kowtowing to Trump and dropping the charges against Mayor Adams is a must read, and brilliantly lays out the case why the judge shouldn't dismiss the charges either. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Fordham’s Advocates for Trans* Law Students (ATLS) has assisted approximately 400 document change petitions at dozens of events since the student organization’s founding in 2022, according to ATLS President Alaina Greene ’27. And the organization has no plans on stopping.

Honored to be a part of this!

Oh, this is going to be good!

In this article for Total Food Service, Fordham Law graduate Benedetta Bortoluzzi '21 breaks down what New York employers need to know about paid prenatal leave in 2025.

See you next time, San Francisco! Fordham Law celebrated its award winners and introduced Dean Joseph Landau to legal scholars from across the country at a reception held at Persona Cocktail Bar, during the 2025 @theaals.bsky.social Annual Meeting. #AALS2025

On day three of programming @ the 2025 @theaals.bsky.social Annual Meeting, Fordham Law Professors Norrinda Brown, Deborah W. Denno, Aniket Kesari, and Adam Shlahet are discussing promotion & tenure, interdisciplinary scholarship, internet & computer law, and the latest ABA proposals, respectively.

Just to plug our casebook: Criminal Law: A Critical Approach by @bennettcapers.bsky.social, @rogerfairfax.bsky.social, and myself explicitly discusses municipal criminal law creation as a core source of crime legislation and uses multiple municipal ordinance violation cases.

Today @ day two of the 2025 @theaals.bsky.social Annual Meeting, Fordham Law Profs. Norrinda Brown, @bennettcapers.bsky.social, & Aniket Kesari are respectively discussing the “parenting professor penalty,” critical theory & epistemology, & the integration of technology in legal education. #AALS2025

The criminal law casebook I coauthored with @bennettcapers.bsky.social & @rogerfairfax.bsky.social (the only one exclusively authored by Black men) briefly discusses child marriage as a response to rape in our chapter on consent. There is at least one congressman who married a 14 year-old girl

4/ If you missed Hallie Jackson's show last night, here is the clip: www.nbcnews.com/now/video/le...

1/5 Behind the story, part 1: (every day this week I am going to share a bit about what into this big investigation) First, the legal issues. We know from experts and survivors that many sexual assaults go unreported. But how do we quantify that? We can't. www.nbcnews.com/now/video/le...

Fordham Law is proud to share that 9 members of the Law School's faculty & staff will be presenting at @theaals.bsky.social Annual Meeting this week in San Francisco. This year's meeting theme is Courage in Action. See where & when to find them during #AALS2025: news.law.fordham.edu/blog/2025/01...

It's been 15 minutes since I posted about my books, so it's GIVEAWAY TIME!!! If you want a FREE copy of my new @routledgelit.bsky.social collection (with @drmitchtravis.bsky.social & Kieran Tranter) Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary, like & reskeet this - winner chosen at random on 5 January. 1/2

It was great delivering a lecture on Afrofuturism, Policing, and Justice at BU Law School and BU's School of Computing and Data Science on Monday. But the real fun: being in convo with BU Professor Ngozi Okidegbe afterwards!

It's always nice to come across a brilliant op-ed from my brilliant Fordham Law colleague Ethan Leib. This one appears in @bostonglobe.com and was co-authored with the equally brilliant @jedshug.bsky.social from BU Law. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/04/o...

Another piece in the legal afrofuturism collection!

Could the Supreme Court roll back same-sex marriage during a Trump administration? Good article, generally, but I also have a bone to pick. www.vox.com/politics/385...

I'm putting together an Evidence law academics starter pack for anyone working on Evidence law related topics. Please let me know if you’d like to be added or be removed, and feel free to share this with others who might be interested in following! bsky.app/starter-pack...

A big congrats to my new junior colleague Ela Leshem, who joined Fordham Law this fall. She has a great article "Dead Bodies as Quasi-Persons" in Vanderbilt Law Review AND she also just won the Emerging Scholar Award from the AALS Section on Aging and the Law!

Excited to participate in the Scholars Live event celebrating the use of narrative in legal scholarship alongside brilliant friends @bennettcapers.bsky.social & Jamelia Morgan! Join us on Zoom on Tuesday at 7pm ET. Thanks so much for organizing, Elizabeth Emens🙏🏻 RSVP docs.google.com/forms/d/18mu...