Dear Fordham Law Community, 

Happy International Women’s Day!

We had a number of exciting events last month to celebrate Black History Month, and now we look forward to recognizing the important contributions of our faculty, staff, students, and alumni during Women’s History Month. Please join me in applauding the members of our community highlighted below for their significant contributions to enhance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at Fordham Law School and the legal profession.

Be well,

Kamille Dean
Senior Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Office of Student Affairs

Joseph Landau Named New Fordham Law Dean

This summer, Landau—who currently serves as the associate dean for academic affairs at Fordham Law—will become the Law School’s 12th dean. He will be the Law School’s first openly LGBT dean.

Read more in the Fordham Law newsroom, University President Tania Tetlow’s announcement, and Law360 Pulse exclusive.

Fordham’s Black Law Students Association Celebrates 11 “Trailblazers” in the Legal Profession

The student organization honored 10 alumni and the dean of the Law School, Matthew Diller, as “trailblazers” who have transformed the legal profession for Black lawyers and law students. Read more and view photos from the event.

David Tanen ’96 Recognized for Commitment to Enhancing the Fordham Law Student Experience in Support of DEIB Efforts

Tanen, co-founder and partner of the venture capital firm Two River and member of the Law School’s Dean’s Planning Council and the University’s Board of Trustees, has given back to his alma mater for nearly 15 years, making numerous philanthropic investments to build more student-centered experiences at the Law School and support the Law School’s diversity efforts. Read more and view photos from the event.

March is Women’s History Month

Women’s History Month kicked off at Fordham Law School on March 7 with Fordham Law Women’s Sixth Annual Symposium. The event featured panels exploring a variety of issues prescient to women in the legal profession, including creating and sustaining diverse workplaces after Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, content creation in the legal profession, and a special collaboration with the Fordham Advocates for Trans* Law Students discussing reproductive and trans* justice.

Professor Aysha Ames, Raissa Ebeh ’25, Nayab Khan ’24, Shivani Parikh ’24, and Abigail Ryckman ’24 were recognized for their “outstanding leadership and contributions to the Fordham community” at the 7th Annual Women’s Herstory Luncheon on the Rose Hill campus on March 7.

Shivani Parikh ’24 was also selected to participate in the Stuart Weitzman and Vital Voices Global Partnership Bold Movers program. Alongside nine other women leaders, Parikh will implement inclusive infrastructure within the workplace, fight for gender-inclusive policies regarding family planning, and cultivate environments of success for caregivers.

Book Talk: Legal Barbarians and Subjects of Rights: Comparative Law and the Global North and South

On March 6, Professor Daniel Bonilla Maldano offered an unorthodox historical analysis of modern comparative law and its connections with the identity of the modern legal subject, examining the relationship between identity, law, and narrative.

Reenactments of Historic Cases

On March 13, the Center on Asian Americans and the Law will examine the history of anti-Asian violence and rhetoric in the U.S. through narration, reenactment of court proceedings, and historic photos and drawings. Register to attend “‘Kung Flu’: A History of Hostility and Violence Against AAPIs.”

Save the date for April 2 when the Center on Asian Americans and the Law will host a panel discussion following a reenactment of the Amistad case. Register to attend.

Four Students Named 2024 NYCBA Diversity Fellows

REAL Scholar Feyisara Idera ’26, REAL Scholar Amy Kong ’26, Jane Sun ’26, and REAL Scholar Jennifer Tiburcio ’26 have been selected to participate in the New York City Bar Association Diversity Fellowship Program. Idera will spend her summer at Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, Kong at Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt, Sun at BNY Mellon, and Tiburcio at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.

Save the Date for LGBTQ and Ally Network of Support Training

Hosted every semester by the University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Division for Student Affairs, the LGBTQ and Ally Network of Support training workshop brings Fordham students, faculty, and staff together to explore a variety of concepts connected back to LGBTQ history and allyship. The spring semester workshop will be offered on April 17 at the Lincoln Center campus in a one-day format.

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