Academics

Top-notch professional skills. A deep appreciation for law’s foundations. Experiential learning. A chance to dip into tech-related legal issues as they unfold in real time. At Fordham, you’ll get the opportunity to focus your interests, spark new ones, and master the tools you’ll need to succeed, wherever and however you dream of practicing law.

Whether advancing scholarship on critical legal issues, providing hands-on training for future lawyers, or delivering much-needed legal advice to the vulnerable and underrepresented, our centers, institutes, and programs make a real difference. Our faculty engages closely with students on a wide range of topics, from fashion law to privacy controversies born of the internet age, social justice, racial and gender inequality, complex and evolving intellectual property matter, national security, corporate law, and human rights.

Fordham Law’s respected and highly-cited student-edited journals shape legal scholarship. Articles in the Fordham Law Review, our oldest scholarly journal, have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court more than 70 times. Students can enrich their academic experience by writing for a journal or joining an editorial board, gaining exposure to timely legal issues involving the economy, business and finance, the media, the environment, and international affairs.