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2011-2012 Fordham Law School Faculty Bibliography, Fordham Law School Library

Faculty Bibliography

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Fordham Law & The Supreme Court: Celebrating Our Relationship, Michael M. Martin, Constantine N. Katsoris

Miscellaneous Publications

"Fordham Law School has enjoyed a long and distinguished relationship with the Supreme Court of the United States that dates back more than a century. In 1908, just three years after the Law School's founding, New York State Governor Charles Evans Hughes served as principal speaker at Fordham Law's first commencement ceremony. Hughes would later be appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by President Herbert Hoover."--Michael M. Martin, Interim Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law

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"Land Is Life, Land Is Power": Landlessness, Exclusion, And Deprivation In Nepal, Elisabeth Wickeri

Crowley Mission Reports

Up to one quarter of the world’s poor is estimated to be landless, a condition that in rural areas is often the best predictor of poverty and hunger. Access to land and its resources, land tenure security, ownership and control over land, and the ability to dispose of land or transfer rights in land are necessary for the fulfillment of fundamental human rights, and are frequently tied to the indigenous, ethnic, and cultural identities of peoples. The social and economic impacts of landlessness, including hunger, threats to health, homelessness, and exploitative labor conditions, create conditions intensifying exploitation by both landowners …