School of Law Centers and Institutes

Centers, Institutes, and Programs

Fordham Law’s centers and institutes are at the forefront of scholarship and advocacy on a wide range of pressing legal issues.

Shaping Law and Policy

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.

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Conference Explores the Persistence of Segregation in Selective Public School Admissions

Conference Explores the Persistence of Segregation in Selective Public School Admissions

In a keynote speech weaving his own family history in the civil rights movement with current policy analysis, Dr. Stefan Redding Lallinger illuminated persistent inequities that plague public education systems …

Symposium Explores Social Media’s Impact on Society, Politics, and National Security 

Symposium Explores Social Media’s Impact on Society, Politics, and National Security 

Since its first days in the late 1990s, social media has evolved into a global force, becoming increasingly embedded in daily life and transforming communications worldwide.  According to Forbes, an …

Judicial Center Names 2024-2025 Peer Clerkship Council

Judicial Center Names 2024-2025 Peer Clerkship Council

The Center for Judicial Events & Clerkships (CJEC) has named its 2024–2025 Peer Clerkship Council (PCC), a leadership cohort of six members of the J.D. Class of 2025 who worked …

Fordham Law Names Elizabeth Acevedo Assistant Dean of the Career Planning Center

Fordham Law Names Elizabeth Acevedo Assistant Dean of the Career Planning Center

Elizabeth “Beth” Acevedo has been chosen as the new assistant dean of the Career Planning Center at Fordham Law School. Her first day will be Aug. 5. Most recently, she …

Ahead of Early Interview Week, Fordham Law Alumni Advise Students, Bolster Confidence

Ahead of Early Interview Week, Fordham Law Alumni Advise Students, Bolster Confidence

Hundreds of Fordham Law students will participate in Early Interview Week this July, meeting and interviewing with attorneys from law firms in the hopes of landing a summer associate position …

Dean Matthew Diller Named Senior Counsel at Fordham Law’s Feerick Center for Social Justice

Dean Matthew Diller Named Senior Counsel at Fordham Law’s Feerick Center for Social Justice

The Feerick Center for Social Justice at Fordham Law School has announced that Dean Matthew Diller will be joining the Center as senior counsel, beginning in fall 2025. Diller, who …

Moore Trial Advocates Finish 2023-2024 Year Strong

Moore Trial Advocates Finish 2023-2024 Year Strong

Fordham Law’s Brendan Moore Trial Advocates, who contributed to the latest ranking of the Law School’s trial advocacy program as No. 4 in the nation by U.S. News and World …

Fordham Law to Host Scott Simpson Cross-Border Institute Conference on Global Elections Impacting Deal Markets

Fordham Law to Host Scott Simpson Cross-Border Institute Conference on Global Elections Impacting Deal Markets

Fordham Law School will host the Scott Simpson Cross-Border Institute Transatlantic Conference on Tuesday, June 4. Each year, the Scott Simpson Cross-Border Institute unites leading law firms, practitioners, academics, and …

Fordham Law Students Help Empower New Yorkers at Call-in Center

Fordham Law Students Help Empower New Yorkers at Call-in Center

While externing at a legal helpline this spring, Arianna Hopkins ’25 often found herself consoling New Yorkers who were in tears—fearful of losing their homes and becoming homeless or seeking …

Thanina Haddadi, LL.M. ’24 and Julia Tedesco ’23 Celebrated as Emerging Leaders in Immigrant Justice Advocacy

Thanina Haddadi, LL.M. ’24 and Julia Tedesco ’23 Celebrated as Emerging Leaders in Immigrant Justice Advocacy

Thanina (Nina) Haddadi, LL.M. ’24 and Julia K. Tedesco ’23 were each honored with the Feerick Center for Social Justice’s Defender of the Dream Awards at the Center’s 8th Annual …

As Migrant Crisis Grows, Fordham Law Steps Up to Help Asylum Seekers

As Migrant Crisis Grows, Fordham Law Steps Up to Help Asylum Seekers

They had made their way to the Bronx from Ecuador, Western Sahara, and Ghana. And Fordham University was there to help them. More than a dozen students from across Fordham’s …

Panel Explores the Implications of Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling for Asian Americans

Panel Explores the Implications of Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling for Asian Americans

Now that the Supreme Court has ended race-conscious admissions policies in higher education, what does that mean for Asian American communities? Fordham Law’s Center on Asian Americans and the Law …

New Leitner Center Report Investigating Afghanistan Withdrawal Recommends Better Planning and Preparation for Humanitarian Evacuations 

New Leitner Center Report Investigating Afghanistan Withdrawal Recommends Better Planning and Preparation for Humanitarian Evacuations 

Can lessons be learned from the chaos of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 to prevent a future humanitarian crisis? A new report from Fordham Law’s Leitner Center …

At Fordham’s 50th Antitrust Conference, DOJ Announces Initiative that will Detect Collusive Schemes Ahead of 2026 FIFA World Cup

At Fordham’s 50th Antitrust Conference, DOJ Announces Initiative that will Detect Collusive Schemes Ahead of 2026 FIFA World Cup

Political debates, controversies, and scandals—including alleged corruption and bribery during the bidding process to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup and accusations of human rights violations in the host country …

Incarceration and Mental Health: How A Different Approach to Mental Health May Be Key to Closing Rikers

Incarceration and Mental Health: How A Different Approach to Mental Health May Be Key to Closing Rikers

New York City has committed to closing the infamous Rikers Island jail by 2027, but to do so the City will need to cut the jail’s population nearly in half. …

Center on Asian Americans and the Law Holds Second Annual Summer Scholarship Conference

Center on Asian Americans and the Law Holds Second Annual Summer Scholarship Conference

The Center on Asian Americans and the Law held its Second Annual Summer Scholarship Conference on July 13. The day-long event was co-sponsored by the Asian American Bar Association of …

Former C.I.A. Director John Brennan Speaks at Scott Simpson Cross-Border Institute’s 2023 Transatlantic Conference 

Former C.I.A. Director John Brennan Speaks at Scott Simpson Cross-Border Institute’s 2023 Transatlantic Conference 

On June 8, the Scott Simpson Cross-Border Institute at Fordham Law held the 2023 Transatlantic Conference, titled “How Geopolitical Instability Affects the Global Deal Market.” The conference was held at …

Scholars Discuss the Right to a Healthy Environment at Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work Seminar

Scholars Discuss the Right to a Healthy Environment at Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work Seminar

In celebration of Earth Day, Fordham Law’s Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work (IRLLW) invited a group of scholars to discuss the right to a healthy environment through a …

Law360: Skadden, Fordham Law Launch Cross-Border Institute

Law360: Skadden, Fordham Law Launch Cross-Border Institute

Law360 highlighted the new partnership between Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and Fordham Law School to launch the Scott Simpson Cross-Border Institute at the Law School, which will …

Fordham Law School and Skadden Launch Scott Simpson Cross-Border Institute

Fordham Law School and Skadden Launch Scott Simpson Cross-Border Institute

The Institute, initiated by the late Scott Simpson, former global co-head of Skadden’s transactions practices, unites leading lawyers, academics and students across the globe to assess cross-border transactional trends and …