Scholarship Highlights
Fordham Law’s faculty—ranked #20 nationally in scholarly impact—are at the forefront of legal research and scholarship that is driving forward knowledge of the law. Their contributions to leading peer-reviewed journals advance innovative solutions to society's most complex and pressing legal challenges.
Below is a selection of recent and forthcoming publications. To read more articles by Fordham Law faculty, visit the FLASH scholarship archive.
Updated October 2024
Atinuke Adediran
Associate Professor of Law
Racial Targets, 118 Nw. L. Rev 1455 (2024).
Aditi Bagchi
Ignatius M. Wilkinson Chair, Professor of Law
Private Law and Public Discourse, 65 Arizona L. Rev. 541 (2023)
Susan Block-Lieb
Professor of Law; Cooper Family Chair in Urban Legal Issues
Impact Ipsa Loquitur: A Reverse Hand Rule for Consumer Finance, 45 Cardozo L. Rev. 1133 (2024)(co-authored with Ted Janger)
Jake Brooks
Professor of Law
Taxation and the Constitution, Reconsidered, 76 Tax L. Rev. 75 (2022) (with David Gamage)
The Original Meaning of the Sixteenth Amendment, 102 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1 (2024) (with David Gamage)
Norrinda Brown
Associate Dean for Experiential Education and Director of Clinical Programs
Black Liberty in Emergency, 110 Nw. L. Rev. 689 (2023)
James Brudney
Joseph Crowley Chair in Labor and Employment Law
“Any” 49 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 465 (2023) (with Ethan Leib)
Bennett Capers
Associate Dean for Research, Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Chair, Professor of Law, and Director, Center on Race, Law, and Justice
Policing “Bad” Mothers, 136 Harv. L. Rev. 2044 (2023)
Reconstruction, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Antitrust, 109 Minn. L. Rev. 341 (2024) (with Gregory Day)
Race, the Academy, and the Constitution of the War on Drugs, 134 Yale L.J. __ (forthcoming 2025) (with Jeff Bellin)
Daniel Capra
Reed Professor of Law
It’s a Code: Amending the Federal Rules of Evidence to Achieve Uniform Results, 58 Wake Forest L. Rev. 549 (2023) (with Berch).
Painting a Clearer Picture: Introducing New Federal Rule of Evidence 107 Regulating Illustrative Aids, 78 Vand. L. Rev. 1469 (2024) (with Richter).
Harlan Cohen
Professor of Law
Toward Best Practices for Trade-Security Measures, 27 J. Int’l Econ L. 93 (2024)
Courtney Cox
Associate Professor of Law
The Uncertain Judge, 90 U. Chi. L. Rev. 739 (2023)
Super-Dicta, 133 U. Penn. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming) [2024 Article of the Year by the AALS Jurisprudence Section]
Nestor Davidson
Albert A. Walsh Chair in Real Estate, Land Use, and Property Law; Faculty Director, Urban Law Center
Home Rulings, 2023 Wis. L. Rev. 1735 (2023)
Deborah Denno
Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law; Founding Director, Neuroscience and Law Center
The New AI: The Legal and Ethical Implications of ChatGPT and Other Emerging Technologies, 92 Fordham L. Rev. 1785-96 (2024) (Symposium Foreword) (with Erica Valencia-Graham)
Howard Erichson
Maria L. Marcus Distinguished Research Scholar, Professor of Law
Class Action Settlements as Contracts?, 102 N.C. L. Rev. 73 (2023) (with E. Leib)
Martin Gelter
Professor of Law
Elective Corporate Governance: Does Board Choice Matter? 78 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 106190 (2024) (with Mathias M. Siems).
Jennifer Gordon
John D. Feerick Chair, Professor of Law
The World the Fire Wrought: A Tribute to Fran Ansley, 90 Tenn. L. Rev. 555 (2023)
Bruce Green
Louis Stein Chair of Law; Director, Stein Center
Should State Trial Courts Become Laboratories of UPL Reform?, 92 Fordham L. Rev. 1285 (2024)
Mariam Hinds
Clinical Professor of Law
Shadow Defendants, 114 Geo. L.J. __ (forthcoming 2025)
Andrew Kent
Joseph M. McLaughlin Chair; Professor of Law
Executive Power, the Royal Prerogative, and the Founders’ Presidency, 2 J. Am. Con. Hist. 403 (2024)
Rebecca Kysar
Professor of Law
The Global Tax Deal and the New International Economic Governance, 74 Tax L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2024)
Thomas Lee
Leitner Family Professor of International Law
Article III, the Bill of Rights, and Administrative Adjudication, 92 Fordham L. Rev. 397 (2023) (with John Golden)
Youngjae Lee
Professor of Law
Is Prison Abolitionism Self-Defeating?, 17 Crim. L. & Philosophy (Nov. 2024) (invited comment on Tommie Shelby, The Idea of Prison Abolition) (Princeton 2023)
Ethan Leib
John D. Calamari Distinguished Professor of Law
Three Modalities of Originalist Fiduciary Constitutionalism, 63 Am. J. Legal History 183 (2023)
Contract as Vow or Oath, Legal Theory (forthcoming 2024-2025)
Ela Leshem
Associate Professor of Law
Dead Bodies as Quasi-Persons, 77 Vand. L. Rev. 999 (2024)
John Pfaff
Joel Reidenberg Distinguished Research Scholar, Professor of Law
Reform and Reaction: The Growing Struggle Between Red States and Blue Prosecutors, __ J. of Crim. L. & Criminology__ (forthcoming 2024).
Catherine Powell
Eunice Hunton Carter Distinguished Research Scholar, Professor of Law
The Implications of Section 230 for Black Communities, 66 Wm & Mary L. Rev. 107 (2024) (with Spencer Overton)
Sepehr Shahshahani
Associate Professor of Law
Testing Political Antitrust, 98 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1169 (2023) (with Nolan McCarty).
When Hard Cases Make Bad Law: A Theory of How Case Facts Affect Judge-Made Law, 110 Cornell L. Rev. __ (forthcoming, 2025)
Chinmayi Sharma
Associate Professor of Law
The Tragedy of the Digital Commons, 101 N. C. L. Rev. 1129 (2023)
AI’s Hippocratic Oath, 102 Wash. U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025)
Linda Sugin
Gail D. Hollister '70 Distinguished Research Scholar, Professor of Law
Is There a Presumption Against Wealth Taxation? __ Tax L. Rev.__ (forthcoming 2025)
Julie Suk
Hon. Deborah A. Batts Distinguished Research Scholar, Professor of Law
Justice Ginsburg’s Cautious Legacy for the Equal Rights Amendment, 110 Georgetown L. J. 1391 (2022)
Olivier Sylvain
Professor of Law
Regulating for Asymmetric Market Power: Beyond the Consumer Sovereignty Model, 25 Sciences Po L. Rev. 37 (2024)
Zephyr Teachout
Professor of Law
Democracy and Law in the New American Antitrust, 11 J. of Antitrust Enforcement (July 2023)
Maggie Wittlin
Associate Professor of Law
Maggie Wittlin, Theorizing Corroboration, 108 Cornell L. Rev. 911 (2023)
The Missing Element in Trademark Infringement, 110 Iowa L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025) (with Sepehr Shahshahani)
Benjamin Zipursky
Interim Associate Dean for Research, James H. Quinn '49 Chair in Legal Ethics; Professor of Law
Consumer Protection and the Illusory Promise of the Unconscionability Defense, 103 Tex. L. Rev. __ (2024) (forthcoming) (with Z. Takhshid)
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