Events
If You Can Keep It: The Legal Issues Surrounding the 2024 Election
The Voting Rights and Democracy Forum Inaugural Symposium
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
at Fordham Law School and via Zoom Webinar
Moderators: Professor Ethan Leib, Fordham Law School, Professor Jerry H. Goldfeder, Director of the Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Project & Senior Counsel at Cozen O’Connor
Panelists: Professor Jessica Roth, Cardozo School of Law, Professor Richard Briffault, Columbia Law School, Professor Thomas Lee, Fordham Law School, Professor Karen Greenberg, Fordham Law Center on National Security, Kayvan Farchadi, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Ramya Krishnan, Knight First Amendment Institute, & Derek Tisler, Brennan Center for Justice
How the Supreme Court’s Recent Voting Rights Decisions Can Affect the 2024 Election
Thursday, October 10, 2023
via Zoom Webinar
Moderators: Jerry H. Goldfeder, Director of the Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Project
Panelists: Wilfred Codrington III, Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, Deuel Ross, Deputy Director of Litigation at the NAACP-LDF, & Michael Weingartner, Associate at DLA Piper
The Supreme Court’s 2023 Voting Rights Cases: What They Mean for Democracy
Friday, March 31, 2023
via Zoom Webinar
Moderators: Wilfred Codrington III, Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, & Jerry H. Goldfeder, Director of the Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Project
Panelists: Tom Wolf, Deputy Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center; Julie Ebenstein, Senior Staff Attorney for the Voting Rights Project at the ACLU; & Deuel Ross, Deputy Director of Litigation at the NAACP-LDF
Co-Sponsors: Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Forum; Harvard Law School Election Law Clinic
Faculty-Student-Staff Conversations: The Potential Indictment of Former President Donald Trump
Friday, March 24, 2023
Fordham Law Faculty-Student-Staff Conversation discussing the potential indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Moderator: Professor Howard Erichson
Panelists: Professor Bennett Capers, Professor Jerry H. Goldfeder,
& Professor Catherine Powell
Election Protection & The Right to Vote with New York State Senator Zellnor Myrie
Thursday, February 9, 2023
A Discussion with New York State Senator Zellnor Myrie, Chair of the New York State Senate Committee on Elections. Senator Myrie authored the John R. Lewis New York Voting Rights Act, which was signed into law in June 2022 by Governor Hochul. Senator Myrie earned his B.A. in Communications and M.A. in Urban Studies from Fordham University. He later earned his J.D. from Cornell Law School. Read more on Senator Myrie’s bio here.
Co-Sponsors: Fordham Law Advocates for Voter Rights (“FLAVR”) and the Black Law Students Association
George Santos: The Law and the Lies
Monday, January 30, 2023
A Discussion with Jerry H. Goldfeder, Director of the Voting Rights & Democracy Project, and Nicholas Fandos, Reporter on the Metro desk of The New York Times
A Discussion with Michael Tomasky
Thursday, December 1, 2022
A Discussion with Jerry H. Goldfeder, Director of the Voting Rights & Democracy Project, and Michael Tomasky, Editor of The New Republic and author of “If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might be Saved”
Post-Midterm Elections Discussion with U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (FLS ’89)
November 9, 2022
Co-Sponsors: Fordham Law Advocates for Voter Rights (“FLAVR”) and Fordham University School of Law’s Voting Rights & Democracy Project
Moderators: Jerry H. Goldfeder, Director of the Voting Rights & Democracy Project, Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law, and Special Counsel at Stroock, Stroock and Lavan LLP; and Sonia Montejano, Co-President, FLAVR
Politics and Natural Disasters in Puerto Rico with Nelson A. Denis
October 24, 2022
Presenter: Nelson A. Denis is an American attorney, author, film director, and former representative of the New York State Assembly. From 1997 to 2000, Denis represented New York’s 68th Assembly district. His most recent work is “War Against All Puerto Ricans,” a non-fiction book, about the life of Puerto Rican independence leader Pedro Albizu Campos, and the treatment of Puerto Rican nationalists by agencies of the United States government.
Co-Sponsors: Latin American Law Students Association
Should U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene Be Disqualified from Running for Re-Election?
May 4, 2022
A Discussion with Jerry H. Goldfeder, Director of the Voting Rights & Democracy Project, and Andrew G. Celli, Jr., attorney for challengers in Rowan v. Greene, and member of the Voting Rights & Democracy Project’s Advisory Board
Gerrymandering, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Redistricting: A Conversation with Kathryn Sadasivan
April 20, 2022
Co-Sponsors: Fordham Law Advocates for Voter Rights (“FLAVR”)
Moderator: Tracy Higgins, Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law
Panelist: Kathryn Sadasivan, Redistricting Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
A Discussion on Voting Rights
April 8, 2022
Co-Sponsors: University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Voting Rights Symposium and the National Constitution Center
Panelists: Rebecca Green, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Election Law Program at William & Mary Law School; Atiba Ellis, Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School; and Jerry H. Goldfeder, Director of the Voting Rights & Democracy Project, Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law, and Special Counsel at Stroock, Stroock and Lavan LLP.
The Presidential Succession Act at 75
Praise It or Bury It?
April 6, 2022
Co-Sponsors: Fordham University School of Law, Continuity of Government Commission, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Center on National Security at Fordham Law, Fordham Law Review, Fordham Urban Law Journal, and the Fordham Federalist Society
Keynote Speaker: Jeh C. Johnson, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP & Former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
Voting Rights Now!
March 30, 2022
Co-Sponsors: Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Temple Shaaray Tefila, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, Society for the Advancement of Judaism (“SAJ”), Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, B’nai Jeshurun, and the East End Temple
Moderator: Jerry H. Goldfeder, Director of the Voting Rights & Democracy Project, Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law, and Special Counsel at Stroock, Stroock and Lavan LLP
Panelists: Julie Ebenstein (FLS ’07), Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU Voting Rights Project; Michael Pernick, former Redistricting Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF); and Wendy Weiser, Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.
The State of U.S. Voting Rights in 2022
March 24, 2022
Moderator: Jerry H. Goldfeder, Director of the Voting Rights & Democracy Project, Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law, and Special Counsel at Stroock, Stroock and Lavan LLP
Panelists: John D. Feerick, Dean Emeritus at Fordham University School of Law; Sarah K. Steiner, election law practitioner and former Chair of the Election Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association; and Ali Najmi, election law practitioner and former Legislative Director to New York City Council Member Mark Weprin
Inaugural Program: Protecting Our Constitutional Democracy – What Lawyers Can and Should Be Doing
March 21, 2022
Introduction: Matthew Diller, Dean and the Paul Fuller Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law
Moderator: Jerry H. Goldfeder, Director of the Voting Rights & Democracy Project, Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law, and Special Counsel at Stroock, Stroock and Lavan LLP
Panelists: Sheila S. Boston, President of the New York City Bar Association; Jason Harrow, Partner at Gerstein Harrow and former Chief Counsel and Executive Director at Equal Citizens; Kira Romero-Craft, Director of Legal Strategies at Demos; and Kathryn Sadasivan, Redistricting Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund