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July 2021: Year in Review
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In a year like no other we reflect on the incredible resiliency of our community. Central to the mission of our Center is developing a space to foster community and build engagement – between our alumni, students and the judiciary and among our cohort of alumni clerks – while enhancing support for our students and alumni pursuing clerkships.
We are grateful to our alumni community for their incredible support, including the FLAA Alumni Board for their generous donation, our Judicial Council, Faculty Clerkship Committee, Alumni Clerk Council, Peer Clerkship Council and all of the members of the judiciary and clerks who volunteered their time to participate in our initiatives and events.
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Engaging the Judiciary:
Our Events
While the pandemic posed challenges it also created a unique opportunity: to design an unparalleled year of national engagement with the judiciary and our alumni clerk cohort. Throughout the year we virtually welcomed judges and alumni clerks from across the country, including: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennslyvania, South Carolina, and West Virginia.
We hope you will take a moment to read more about the special events featuring our visitors from near and far.
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Judicial Center Hosts Fall 2020 Judges Week
In October, the Center hosted its second Judges Week welcoming jurists from across the country through our Jurist in Residence program. Given the ongoing pandemic, the fall 2020 Judges Week was hosted virtually and welcomed Judge Amy St. Eve, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Judge Richard Gergel, U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina; and Judge Solomon Oliver, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Our Judges Week initiative is designed to engage participating judges in all aspects of the life of the law school.
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Judicial Center Welcomes Judge Christine Arguello (D.Colo.) as its 2021 First to the Bench Speaker
Last year, the CJEC in partnership with Fordham’s First Generation Law Students (F1GS) developed the First to the Bench event.
On February 26, the Center welcomed Judge Christine Arguello, U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.
Professor Capra moderated the chat with Judge Arguello in which she touched upon her unique perspective as a low-income, first-generation high school graduate, how that impacted her career as a lawyer—a career filled with many firsts—her path to the bench, and her ongoing work with first-generation students.
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Judicial Center Welcomes Judges through its View from Chambers Series
This spring semester, the Center hosted four distinguished members of the state and federal judiciary through its View from Chambers series. This year’s visiting jurists included: Judge Gary Katzmann of the U.S. Court of International Trade; Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis ’00 of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida; Judge Jack Sabatino, deputy presiding judge of the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division; and Justice Maria Araujo Kahn ’89 of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
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Judicial Center Brings Alumni and Students Together to Discuss Judicial Clerkships
During the fall 2020 semester, the CJEC reprised its popular Alumni Clerk Chat Roundtable series in a virtual format. The series is designed to expose students to the notion of clerkships early on and to enable them to engage with alumni who are or were judicial clerks through these informal and interactive roundtables.
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Clerkship Highlights
Integral to our mission is bolstering the clerkship culture at the law school.
We encourage our students and alumni to consider clerking. We provide unparalleled support. We foster an inclusive and vibrant clerk alumni community.
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Inaugural Peer Clerkship Council Promotes a Clerkships-Oriented Culture
When the CJEC launched in 2019, Faculty Director Daniel Capra and Assistant Dean Suzanne Endrizzi knew that they wanted to create a vehicle for student leadership - the Peer Clerkship Council - recognizing how critical peer engagement is to promoting and fostering a clerkships-oriented culture at the Law School.
Clerkship Outcomes Snapshot
In the coming year we are pleased to have more than 75 of our alumni clerking on federal and state courts across the country. Our most recent graduating class, J.D. 2021, secured more than 40 clerkships for upon graduation and future terms. While our talented J.D. 2022s are only at the beginning of the process, we are pleased that among their outcomes thus far are 5 appellate clerkships on the 2d, 3d and 10th circuits.
Our clerks will assist in the work of chambers on the 2d Cir., 3d Cir. 10th Cir., U.S. Court of International Trade, D.Conn., D.Del., S.D.Fla., S.D.Ga., N.D.Ill., D.N.J., S.D.N.Y., D.Mass., N.D.Okla., D.S.C., W.D.Tenn., S.D.Tex., and state courts in Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey and New York.
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Faculty Director Daniel J. Capra’s Scholarship
Current and Upcoming
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“THE” Rule: Modernizing the Potent, But Overlooked, Rule of Witness Sequestration, 63 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021) (with Liesa L. Richter)
Evidentiary Irony and the Rule of Completeness: A Proposal to Amend Federal Rule of Evidence 106, 105 Minnesota Law Review 901 (2020) (with Liesa L. Richter)
To see a full listing of Professor Capra's scholarship, click here.
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Looking Ahead
Thank you again for helping make our second year a success! We look forward to engaging with you (in person!) in the coming year.
Stay safe. Stay well. Stay in touch with us!
Daniel J. Capra, Reed Professor of Law and CJEC Faculty Director
Suzanne M. Endrizzi ’96, Assistant Dean, CJEC
law.fordham.edu/cjec
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