Dear Friends,
I am writing to you as the new Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and Director of Clinical Programs at Fordham with some of our clinic news from the past six months. But this is just a snapshot of what our program has been up to. Each of our 14-in-house clinics is working on sophisticated legal matters, providing excellent representation while staying close to our pedagogical commitments.
This is an extraordinarily difficult time for many people in the communities our clinics serve. But I do not believe that any of us can give up hope. Teaching our students to practice at the highest level in the context of serving those in need is critical at this moment. And Fordham’s program is ever committed to teaching, practicing and writing scholarship, as bell hooks said, “rooted in hopefulness.”
In solidarity,
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on Innovation
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Criminal Defense Clinic Helps Helps Secure Exoneration for Wrongfully Convicted Man Keith Roberts
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Though Keith Roberts (center) was released from prison in 1994, he has been fighting since then to clear his name for a crime he did not commit. With help from Fordham Law Adjunct Prof. Leonard Noisette (second from right) and students from the Criminal Defense Clinic, Roberts was exonerated in early October by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Matthew D’Emic.
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| Housing Justice Clinic Files Federal Lawsuit Alleging Discriminatory Housing Practices in NYC
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Fordham Law School’s Housing Justice Clinic filed a class action lawsuit against the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the New York Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) on behalf of low-income Black and Hispanic renters who were eligible for federal rental assistance during the pandemic but were told not to apply. The suit says they were left waiting for years or did not receive it at all because of the way the money was distributed.
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How a Franchising Model Can Transform Worker Cooperatives
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Gowri Krishna ’06 joined Fordham in Fall 2024 to direct the the Community Economic Development Clinic, which focuses on providing free legal services to community-based organizations, nonprofits and worker-owned businesses. In this Q&A, Krishna discusses the franchise model for worker co-ops and what it means for new immigrants and workers’ rights.
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Mariam Hinds Publishes “The Shadow Defendants” in Georgetown Law Review
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Mariam Hinds joined Fordham in Fall 2024 to direct the Criminal Defense Clinic. Prior to academia, Hinds spent five and a half years representing clients in the Criminal Defense Practice at The Bronx Defenders, a nonprofit that provides legal services to low-income Bronx residents. That work inspired an article she wrote, “The Shadow Defendants,” which is forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal, which is about “the labor women, particularly Black women and women of color, perform to support their loved ones in the criminal legal system. It also weaves in a narrative of resistance describing the advocacy and policy work that shadow defendants have championed and led.”
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USF’s Lindsay Harris Gives Inaugural Clinical Lecture on Mobility in Kenya
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Professor Lindsay Harris (left), Director of the Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Clinic at the University of San Francisco, and Mary Maker (right), Goodwill Ambassador with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, gave a talk followed by a response by Zaid Nydari ’09 (who teaches Refugee Law at FLS). Harris and Maker reported back on the USF’s Trip to Kakuma Refugee Camp. Harris traveled with her clinic students to the camp last spring.
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Tax Clinic Fights Against Repercussions of Predatory Lending with Six Figure Settlement
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The Federal Tax Clinic’s client had been embroiled in a decade-long legal battle—against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over tax liabilities resulting from a settlement with a mortgage bank. With the help of the clinic fighting on their behalf, the client’s tax debt was reduced from nearly $184,000 to less than $13,500.
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Legal Theory Meets Practice in New York Court of Appeals Case
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Professor Ian Weinstein (right) and students in Fordham Law’s Federal Litigation Clinic, including Brennan Corriston ’24 (center) represented Fordham Law scholar Ethan Leib (left), the John D. Calamari Distinguished Professor of Law, who submitted an amicus brief in People v. Hernandez (2024), a case before the New York Court of Appeals involving a defendant with a prior conviction who was seeking to reduce the sentence of his most recent conviction.
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