Explosion in Tick Diseases Spurs Race for Treatment and Prevention
Bloomberg 10-9-26
There’s urgency to find something efficient and marketable before another surge in tick bites, said Thomas Daniels, director of Fordham University’s Louis Calder Center, which conducts tick-disease surveillance. “It’s difficult not to worry about the future in terms of exposure to tick-borne pathogens,” he said. “Tick diseases have spread remarkably quickly in the past 20 or 30 years.”
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Confusion delayed aid to Christa Pike after botched execution, 911 calls show
Washington Post 10-13-26
Deborah Denno, a professor at the Fordham School of Law and founding director of the Neuroscience and Law Center, said the release of the 911 calls raises an uncomfortable truth: that most states do not have detailed plans for what happens if an inmate survives an execution attempt. “There’s a resistance to acknowledge that anything could ever go wrong,” she said. Pike’s case also underscores a related quandary, Denno said. By law, prison inmates are entitled to health care. But once a condemned prisoner enters the death chamber, she said, the rules that would govern more ordinary circumstances seem to become blurry.
Leo XIV’s Cancer Diagnosis Challenges Expectations of an Extended Papacy
New York Times 10-13-26
His illness will inevitably unsettle the church, particularly depending on how transparent the Vatican continues to be about the pope’s progress through treatment. “This kind of thing just creates disquiet,” said David Gibson, director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University.
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Pope Leo XIV’s Cancer Diagnosis Raises Questions About the Future and the Very Recent Past
U.S. News & World Report 10-15-26
“There’s something really beautiful in that even the most powerful person in the church is broken,” said Natalia Imperatori-Lee, associate professor of theology at Fordham University. “He’s been so, so eloquent on how our fragility is also a source of our strength.”
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Katie Zacharia calls herself a lawyer. Legal experts aren’t sure.
Washington Post 10-13-26
Bruce A. Green, the director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics at Fordham University School of Law, agreed. “A law school graduate is just that — a law school graduate,” he said. A person is considered a lawyer or an attorney only after being admitted to practice law, Green said, adding that in most states, this requires passing a bar exam and demonstrating proper character.
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WABC – AM
10-15-26
Fordham University Professor Beth Noble: “Starshield is owned and run by Elon Musk’s company SpaceX, but Ukrainian access has been funded by the U.S. And so the Ukrainian government is asking if the U.S. cut off Ukraine’s access to this key communication system with no warning, and if so, if that’s a sign that U.S.— Ukrainian cooperation is disintegrating.”
Why universal school meals should be a priority for politicians
New York Amsterdam News 10-15-26
Fordham political science professor Christina Greer: “It is imperative that we know where candidates stand on providing universal school meals. Will they help push to codify universal school meals in the federal budget or push statehouses and governors to make universal school meals a reality for all?”
Streaming Execution Would Be a National Security, Moral Failure
Bloomberg Law 10-14-26
In a Bloomberg Law commentary, former Department of Defense attorneys Paul S. Koffsky, adjunct professor at Fordham and Columbia law schools, and Thomas H. Lee, professor at Fordham Law, argue that livestreaming the planned firing-squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan would pose significant national security risks and raise serious moral concerns.
Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno discusses what’s next for Christa Pike
Fox News 10-14-26
If surviving attempted lethal injections on Sept. 30 left her mentally impaired, Christa Pike could be spared from the death penalty, according to a leading scholar on capital punishment in the U.S., who also breaks down some other possibilities.
Commentary: Cold Sweat Nightmares as Children at Play Die Under US Bombs
Newport News Times 10-14-26
Fordham professor emerita of media studies Robin Andersen examines U.S. news coverage of the war in Gaza in her book, The Complicit Lens, highlighting what she describes as failures in mainstream reporting on the conflict.
Columbia’s Teachers College to Lead Study on the Impacts of Racial Inequities in New York City
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 10-14-26
Columbia University’s Teachers College will lead a yearlong study examining the historical and contemporary impacts of racial inequities in New York City. The study also includes scholars affiliated with Duke University, Howard University, Harvard University, Fordham University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Hunter College.
Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
Associated Press 10-09-26
Deborah Denno, a death penalty expert and law professor at Fordham University, said livestreaming an execution could make the process “much more transparent” and inform the public about all that capital punishment entails…“I think it could possibly be a good idea because it would be transparent and the public would be fully aware that it’s happening,” she said.
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Goldman’s $2.3 Billion Deal Puts Tax-Smart ETFs Under Scrutiny
Financial Advisory 10-13-26
“It’s not clear how Neos is treating all of its dividends as qualified dividends, given that the stocks positions and SPX options are clearly offsetting positions,” said Jeffrey Colon, a law professor at Fordham University.
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Trump’s anti-American Bar Association push could split states
Politico 10-13-26
“Some state supreme courts will be happy with the way it is, and not much will change,” said Matt Diller, who served as a dean at Fordham Law and the Cardozo School of Law. “But there are a whole bunch of states that are Trump influenced and have conservative supreme courts that might welcome this.”
The Supreme Court has a shadow docket — it needs a shadow court
The Hill 10-13-26
Fordham Law professor Julie Suk’s recently published book, The Shadow Court: Rescuing Democracy from the Supreme Court, explores the creation of a shadow court whose justices could offer alternative interpretations of constitutional law.
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Jewish patients are seeking therapy. Some say they’re finding antisemitism instead
St. Louis Jewish Light 10-13-26
The American Psychological Association had a “pretty disingenuous” response to a federal panel’s Jew-hatred concerns, but there are opportunities for progress via better training, according to Dean McKay, a psychology professor at Fordham University.
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Akerman expands national real estate practice with addition of Lim as partner
New York Real Estate Journal 10-13-26
Lisa Lim, an adjunct professor at Fordham Law and board member of its Urban Law Center, has joined Akerman as a partner in its national real estate practice.“Akerman’s breadth of experience in affordable housing and public-private development makes this the ideal platform to continue serving clients and communities shaping the future of our city,” Lim said.
More than a dozen states ban this kind of sports wager — except when they don’t
Capital News Service 10-13-26
“There are legal advantages to falling under the daily fantasy sports bucket over falling in sports betting,” said Marc Edelman, who teaches sports law at Baruch College and Fordham University. “But my conclusion is a number of the companies that call themselves daily fantasy sports on their website really are not.”
Legal scholar exposes the bluff behind Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ threat
Alter Net 10-12-26
Fordham Law professor John Pfaff cautioned against panic over President Trump’s threats to send election monitors to midterm polling places.
Roger Marshall charged 18% on medical bills — more than other Kansas doctors who sued
Daily Gazette | Kansas City Star 10-12-26
Lauren Jones is legal and policy director at the National Center for Access to Justice at the Fordham Law School in New York…“Consumer debt cases are now the most common cases in civil courts across the country, and what happens across the board…,”Jones said.“Oftentimes, people never even know that they’re being sued,” she said.
Christa Pike: Four Major Questions As She Returns to Death Row
Newsweek 10-11-26
Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham University School of Law and a death penalty expert, previously told Newsweek that a second attempt to execute Pike could violate the constitutional protection against double jeopardy. “The state has one bite of the apple.”
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Getting Ahead of the Curve on Anti-Racism Amongst Migrants for Immigration Reform by Paul Presendieu
Black Westchester 10-11-26
Fordham law professor Tanya Katerí Hernández reached a similar conclusion from a different direction. Her 2022 book Racial Innocence draws on discrimination case files from 1964 to 2021. She argues that negative attitudes toward Blackness form long before immigrants land in the United States.
The 11th Hour with Ali Velshi
MSNBC 10-10-26
Fordham Politics Professor Christina Greer: We’re in a moment where ice has become more stealth because they clearly have not left New York City. But New Yorkers have been very clear that this is not something that they will tolerate.”
If Fort Hood firing squad runs smoothly it could become model for other executions, expert says
FOX News 10-09-26
Fordham Law death penalty expert Deborah Denno calls firing squad quicker and more certain than other methods but warns recent South Carolina case produced a ‘troublesome outcome.’
PayPal founder v. Pope: Peter Thiel rips into Vatican’s AI concerns, suggesting it’s just a distraction from church’s sex abuse crisis
Moneywise 10-10-26
Dave Gibson, director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture, told the National Catholic Register that the billionaire’s criticism of the Pope indicates what he really “feels about anyone who would dare to set any limits on what Peter Thiel wants.”
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The Cabrini Student Organizing Summit Brings Students Together For Migration
Ignatian Solidarity Network 10-08-26
The Ignatian Solidarity Network highlighted Fordham University students who participated in the Cabrini Student Organizing Summit on Migration, joining students from Catholic institutions nationwide to develop campus and community initiatives supporting immigrants and refugees.
Works both familiar and surprising: America’s Fall poetry roundup
America Magazine 10-08-26
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, a professor at Fordham University, remarks about her collection of new and selected poems. In The View From Childhood, Alaimo O’Donnell resurrects her child-self, and with her, the places and people from her youth as she saw them then.
