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Curious, creative, and committed to the craft of law.

Those words describe the people you’ll meet at Fordham Law School.

Our faculty and students are dedicated to excellence and ethics and are engaged with what’s happening in the real world, whether transacting deals for clients in multinational corporate boardrooms, dispensing justice on the benches of courtrooms, or fighting for underserved communities in the heart of New York City.

Our education is grounded in enduring legal principles but always open to emerging theories, techniques, and technologies. Historically, Fordham Law has opened its doors to people not welcome at other law schools due to their religion, gender, race, or class.

Today, we build on this legacy by working to create a learning environment that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive to students of all backgrounds, religions, and orientations. We’re creating a community of compassionate and highly capable lawyers with a larger goal: to make a difference for our profession, society, and world.

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#7 in the nation for alumni promoted to partner, according to the National Law Journal.

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Fordham Students Help New Yorkers Navigate Tax Season

Fordham Students Help New Yorkers Navigate Tax Season

Tax season is looking brighter for many New Yorkers this year, thanks to Fordham students who are rolling up their sleeves to help low-income and elderly residents file returns—and assist …

Screening of Oscar-Nominated Documentary The Perfect Neighbor Brings Attention to “Stand Your Ground” Laws

Screening of Oscar-Nominated Documentary The Perfect Neighbor Brings Attention to “Stand Your Ground” Laws

Have Florida’s “stand your ground” laws emboldened regular citizens to use deadly violence to resolve disputes?  The Oscar-nominated documentary The Perfect Neighbor explores this question through a case involving the …

Walking With Others: Will Hayes, SJ, ’26 LLM Finds His Vocation in Law and Community

Walking With Others: Will Hayes, SJ, ’26 LLM Finds His Vocation in Law and Community

On Wednesday evenings at Fordham’s Rose Hill campus, migrant day laborers from the South Bronx dance salsa alongside undergraduate students—an unlikely tradition that grew out of an English class, a …

The Declaration at 250: Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and International Law

The Declaration at 250: Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and International Law

As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this year, Fordham Law News is turning to its faculty to explore the legal, historical, and philosophical …

Bloomberg Law: Prof. Thomas H. Lee Says Birth Tourism Issue Offers Lens for Birthright Citizenship Case

Bloomberg Law: Prof. Thomas H. Lee Says Birth Tourism Issue Offers Lens for Birthright Citizenship Case

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week regarding President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. In this op-ed for Bloomberg Law, Fordham Law Professor Thomas H. Lee …

Sam Khichi ’98 JD Named Fordham Law School 2026 Diploma Ceremony Speaker

Sam Khichi ’98 JD Named Fordham Law School 2026 Diploma Ceremony Speaker

Fordham Law School is proud to announce that Sam Khichi ’98 JD, executive vice president, chief policy officer, and general counsel of CVS Health, will be the keynote speaker at …

Moneywise: Prof. Benjamin C. Zipursky Comments on High-Profile L.A. Social Media Personal Injury Lawsuit

Moneywise: Prof. Benjamin C. Zipursky Comments on High-Profile L.A. Social Media Personal Injury Lawsuit

Ahead of a high-profile social media personal injury lawsuit being tried in Los Angeles, Fordham Law Professor Benjamin C. Zipursky told Moneywise that the goal of the attorneys was not …

The Tech Policy Press Podcast: Prof. Olivier Sylvain Says He Wants to Reclaim the Internet from Big Tech

The Tech Policy Press Podcast: Prof. Olivier Sylvain Says He Wants to Reclaim the Internet from Big Tech

This was a landmark week for tech accountability in U.S. courts. Juries in New Mexico and California delivered verdicts finding tech giants Meta and Google liable for harms to young …

Three Fordham Law Professors Ranked Among the Top 100 Legal Scholars in the Nation

Three Fordham Law Professors Ranked Among the Top 100 Legal Scholars in the Nation

The latest ranking of the nation’s top 100 legal scholars by the George Mason University Law Library features three Fordham Law professors. Now in its third year, “The Top 100 …

The Wall Street Journal: Prof. Susan Scafidi Says Social Media Has Taken the Shame Out of Copying

The Wall Street Journal: Prof. Susan Scafidi Says Social Media Has Taken the Shame Out of Copying

According to consumer-insights platform Morning Consult, about 30% of consumers, and almost 50% of Gen-Z customers, have bought a dupe. Fordham Law Professor Susan Scafidi, founder and academic director of …

The New York Post: Prof. Olivier Sylvain on the Two Latest Legal Blows to Big Tech

The New York Post: Prof. Olivier Sylvain on the Two Latest Legal Blows to Big Tech

Fordham Law Professor Olivier Sylvain spoke with the New York Post after Big Tech—especially Meta, the parent of Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp—weathered two major legal blows last week. Fordham University …

Judicial Center’s View from Chambers Series Welcomes Jurists from the Texas Business Court

Judicial Center’s View from Chambers Series Welcomes Jurists from the Texas Business Court

The Center for Judicial Events and Clerkships (CJEC) and the Corporate Law Center (CLC) provided the Fordham Law community with the rare opportunity to hear firsthand about the newly established …

“Know Brainer” Podcast: Prof. Deborah W. Denno Enlightens Listeners on the Criminal Justice System

“Know Brainer” Podcast: Prof. Deborah W. Denno Enlightens Listeners on the Criminal Justice System

How is neuroscience being applied in the courtroom in criminal cases? Fordham Law Professor Deborah W. Denno, a legal expert in death penalty issues and the founding director of the …

New Stein Scholars Class Committed to Social Justice In and Outside the Classroom

New Stein Scholars Class Committed to Social Justice In and Outside the Classroom

Samir Lavingia ’28 JD, a Stein Scholar at Fordham Law, was a software engineer at Google Maps before he decided to pursue public interest law. When his coworker was struck …

The Arizona Republic: Prof. Deborah W. Denno on Firing Squad Executions Growing Closer to Reality in Arizona

The Arizona Republic: Prof. Deborah W. Denno on Firing Squad Executions Growing Closer to Reality in Arizona

Firing squad executions grew closer to reality in Arizona after a measure passed the state Senate that would let the public decide on the rarely-used death penalty method. Fordham Law …

Mid Hudson News: Prof. Cheryl Bader on What’s Needed for Jurors to Feel Confident in a Guilty Verdict

Mid Hudson News: Prof. Cheryl Bader on What’s Needed for Jurors to Feel Confident in a Guilty Verdict

What would be needed for jurors to feel confident in a guilty verdict? Fordham Law Clinical Professor Cheryl Bader, a criminal law expert and a former prosecutor with the U.S. …

KFF Health News, Public News Service, WUSF 89.7: National Center for Access to Justice’s Lauren Jones Discusses Wage Garnishment

KFF Health News, Public News Service, WUSF 89.7: National Center for Access to Justice’s Lauren Jones Discusses Wage Garnishment

Lauren Jones, legal and policy director at the National Center for Access to Justice at Fordham Law School, talked about wage garnishment with KFF Health News-Public News Service Collaboration. Wage …

Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center Celebrates a Decade of Groundbreaking Research

Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center Celebrates a Decade of Groundbreaking Research

When Fordham Law launched its Neuroscience and Law Center in 2015, it entered largely uncharted territory as it explored an under-researched intersection of neuroscience and criminal court proceedings. A decade …

Lawfare: Prof. Andrew Kent Comments on the Litigation on the Alien Enemies Act

Lawfare: Prof. Andrew Kent Comments on the Litigation on the Alien Enemies Act

Based on historical research of the Alien Enemies Act’s background and legislative purposes, Fordham Law Professor Andrew Kent argues in this op-ed for Lawfare that President Donald Trump’s Alien Enemies …

TheStreet: Prof. Jeffrey Colon on How Section 351 Lets Investors Swap Stock for ETF Shares Tax-Free

TheStreet: Prof. Jeffrey Colon on How Section 351 Lets Investors Swap Stock for ETF Shares Tax-Free

Fordham Law Professor Jeffrey Colon spoke with TheStreet as a growing number of wealthy Americans have been reportedly seeding brand-new ETFs with their appreciated stock and walking away with diversified fund …

J.D. admissions

Fordham University School of Law
150 West 62nd Street, Suite 4-104, New York, NY 10023

Tel: 212-636-6810
Fax: 212-636-7984
Email: [email protected]

 

LL.M. admissions

Fordham University School of Law
International and Non-JD Programs
150 West 62nd Street, Suite 8-131, New York, NY 10023 USA

Tel: 212-636-6883
Fax: 212-636-6922
Email: [email protected]

On-campus M.S.L. admissions

Fordham University School of Law
International and Non-J.D. Programs
150 West 62nd Street, Suite 8-131, New York, NY 10023 USA

Tel: 212-636-6883
Fax: 212-636-6922
Email: [email protected]

 

S.J.D. admissions

Fordham University School of Law
International and Non-J.D. Programs
150 West 62nd Street, Suite 8-131, New York, NY 10023 U.S.A.

Tel: 212-636-6883
Fax: 212-636-6922
Email: [email protected]