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| Start Date and Time | Event Details |
| Thursday, June 20, 2013 |
| 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | European Alumni Chapter Reception in London
London Reception
Thursday, June 20, 2013
6–8 PM
Hosted by Peter John Sacripanti FCRH ’82
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Heron Tower
110 Bishopsgate
London, EC2N 4AY
United Kingdom
Join Professors Sean Griffith and Richard Squire for a cocktail reception.
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| Start Date and Time | Event Details |
| Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
| Class Cancellation: Corporations
Professor: Gelter, Martin |
| 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM | Law School Tour
A guided tour of the law school will be presented by a current student. The tour should last between 30-45 minutes. You must register online at least 24 hours in advance to secure a spot.
Please have a state issued form of identification to gain access into the facilities. Your tour guide will meet you in the lobby of the law school.
We look forward to your visit and welcome you to Fordham Law. |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Leitner Brown Bag Lunch: China's Rule of Law Mirage
Click here for more information. |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Skadden Foundation Fellowship Orientation
We've invited Susan Plum, Director of the Skadden Fellowship Program to come to the Law School on Tuesday, March 27th from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Room 207 to conduct an orientation for all students who may be interested in applying for a Skadden Fellowship that would commence in the Fall of 2013 (or in the Fall of 2014 for interested first years or class of '12 graduates who will clerk). Sandwiches from Mangia will be served.
The Skadden Fellowship Foundation, described as "a legal Peace Corps" by The Los Angeles Times, was established in 1988 to commemorate the firm's 40th anniversary, in recognition of the dire need for greater funding for graduating law students who wish to devote their professional lives to providing legal services to the poor (including the working poor), the elderly, the homeless and the disabled, as well as those deprived of their civil or human rights. The aim of the foundation is to give Fellows the freedom to pursue public interest work; thus, the Fellows create their own projects at public interest organizations with at least two lawyers on staff before they apply.
Fellowships are awarded for two years. Skadden provides each Fellow with a salary (for the class of 2012, the salary is $46,000) and pays all fringe benefits to which an employee of the sponsoring organization would be entitled. For those Fellows not covered by a law school loan forgiveness or low income protection plan, the firm will pay a Fellow's law school debt service for the tuition part of the loan for the duration of the fellowship. The 2012 class of Fellows brings to 648 the number of academically outstanding law school graduates and judicial clerks the firm has funded to work full-time for legal and advocacy organizations. See http://www.skaddenfellowships.org/
Applications will be due on October 1, 2012, and notification of fellowship offerings will occur on December 7, 2012. For members of the Class of 2013, its important to begin planning now. Susan Plum and several Fordham Law Skadden Fellows will discuss what sort of public interest projects are most likely to be funded, give advice on how to identify and approach potential sponsoring legal organizations starting now, and share how to best utilize her, the PIRC and the Fordham Faculty Public Interest Fellowships Committee, and the Skadden Fellowship alumni community during the application process. If you have any ideas of projects and are willing to share them at the orientation, Ms. Plum would be happy to give you feedback. Skadden does not fund "traditional" criminal defense work, or international work (although they will fund fellows to work with "domestic" organizations in either London or Paris, where the firm has large branch offices).
Current application forms are available on the Skadden website at http://www.skaddenfellowships.org/application. Also on the website you can find very helpful information about all past Skadden Fellows including the names of the legal organizations that sponsored them as fellows. Skadden fellows have worked in both urban and rural settings at public interest organizations all over the country.
Please e-mail Abby Hernandez-Brown (ahernandez@law.fordham.edu) in the PIRC as soon as possible to RSVP (so we'll know how many sandwiches to order for lunch).
Professors Elizabeth Cooper, Robin Lenhardt, and Catherine Powell, and Dora Galacatos are also available as resources. They have expressed a strong interest in helping any students who are seriously interested in applying. All of these Professors are also Skadden Fellow alumnae. |
| 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM | Law School Tour
A guided tour of the law school will be presented by a current student. The tour should last between 30-45 minutes. You must register online at least 24 hours in advance to secure a spot.
Please have a state issued form of identification to gain access into the facilities. Your tour guide will meet you in the lobby of the law school.
We look forward to your visit and welcome you to Fordham Law. |
| 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Out of the Ashes: 9/11 Searching for Justice
A Documentary Film, Q & A Discussion Follows
Out of the Ashes: 9/11 is a documentary film that tells the stories of seven 9/11 families who explore the legal, moral and ethical ramifications of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund and its impact on the civil justice system.
Eleven days after the terrorist attack, the federal government put in place the largest public entitlement program, the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund — to deal with this terrorist tragedy.
Did the 9/11 Fund offer families justice?
If the Victim Compensation Fund was the right thing to do, did those hurt in tragedies like Katrina, Oklahoma City, and other disasters also deserve compensation? Is this Fund, with its methods for calculating the value of a human life, an appropriate remedy & mediation-like model? Was justice delivered?
Register Online
Refreshments will be served. |
| 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Sharing Sacred Space in Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims. In this relatively small space, they live side by side, practicing their traditions.
The evening includes reflections on how religious space has been historically shared, how these religious communities have interpreted customary law, and how they have engage each other to overcome and resolve conflict.
Speakers:
Hussein Rashid, Adjunct Professor of Religion, Hofstra University
Mark Movsesian, Frederick A. Whitney Professor of Contract Law and Director of the Center for Law and Religion, St. John’s University
Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America
Moderator:
Nelson Tebbe, Professor of Law. Brooklyn Law School
Free and open to the public.
REGISTRATION
At door registration is available.
CLE: $65 to receive 2 non-transitional professional practice credits ($55 for Fordham Law alumni and public interest attorneys). Fordham has a hardship policy for this course. To apply, please submit a written request to: Director of Public Programming & CLE, Fordham Law School, 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023 | F: 212-636-6984
lawreligion@law.fordham.edu | 212.636.7699 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 212.636.7699 end_of_the_skype_highlighting | F: 212.636.6899 |
http://law.fordham.edu/lawreligion |
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