Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

The Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law (JCFL) is the youngest of the six student-run law journals at Fordham University School of Law. It was founded in 1995 as the Financial, Securities & Tax Law Forum (FSTF), and published the proceedings of its symposia. The law school faculty unanimously voted to approve the conversion of the Forum into a full-fledged law journal in 2000. Since then, the JCFL has become the 425th most-cited American law journal out of a survey of 941 such publications [John Doyle, [http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx Washington and Lee University, School of Law Library - Most-Cited Legal Periodicals: U.S. and selected non-U.S.] , 2005 rankings of law school journals.] . In 2005, an article published in the JCFL was cited as persuasive authority by the United States Supreme Court [The article was "To Shred or Not to Shred: Document Retention Policies and Federal Obstruction of Justice Statutes", by Christopher R. Chase, 8 Fordham J. Corp. & Fin. L. 721 (2003), cited in "Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States", 544 U.S. 696 (2005).] .

The JCFL is unique among Fordham's law journals in that it allows first-year students two chances to "write on" to the journal: once in October and again in May as part of the school-wide journal writing competition. It also organizes a Business Law Pracitioners speaker series in which alumni introduce students to various corporate practice areas. In addition, the JCFL works with the law school's Center for Corporate, Financial and Securities Law to organize the annual A. A. Somer, Jr. and DeStefano Lectures.

ee also

*Fordham Law School
*Fordham University
*Law journal
*William Treanor

References

External links

* [http://law.fordham.edu/publications/index.ihtml?pubid=600 Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law]