Matthew Diller

June 27, 2023 | National Law Journal

The factors U.S. News has chosen to emphasize in its newly revised formula will not, in fact, make the ranking a more useful guide for prospective students. U.S. News promotes short-term thinking in a situation that requires long-term decisions.

By Matthew Diller

7 minute read

May 24, 2022 | New York Law Journal

This is full text of Fordham University School of Law Dean Matthew Diller's remarks to the first class in three years to graduate with an in-person commencement ceremony. He explains how, since the beginning of the pandemic, he has transformed from the dean of "No" to the dean of "Yes!"

By Matthew Diller

9 minute read

May 04, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The New York Court of Appeals must act now to ease New York's restrictive rules on distance learning tied to bar eligibility to ensure the rules keep pace with a changing world.

By Horace E. Anderson Jr., Michael T. Cahill, Anthony W. Crowell and Matthew Diller

7 minute read

June 29, 2021 | New York Law Journal

This is not a matter of discretion or taste. It is essential to conferring the robust and comprehensive pre-professional education our students rely on us to provide.

By Matthew Diller and Joseph Landau

9 minute read

May 25, 2021 | New York Law Journal

"We have a renewed understanding of how we need to affirmatively nurture, build and treasure our connections and attachments to each other."

By Matthew Diller

9 minute read

May 19, 2020 | New York Law Journal

It might be hard to imagine the other side of this pandemic—to see past the horizon—but when this crisis ends, there will be many new and urgent needs. But undoubtedly there will also be new opportunities as the experience changes our society, economy and culture on a long-term basis.

By Matthew Diller

8 minute read

September 05, 2019 | National Law Journal

Our democratic institutions are being tested. Legal ethics should teach accountability for the rule of law.

By Matthew Diller and Russell Pearce

5 minute read

March 05, 2019 | National Law Journal

'Law schools must do better to adapt their curricula to technological change. If they don't, they risk underserving the students in their care and, by extension, disappointing the future employers of those students. Ultimately and most egregiously, they risk failing the clients those students will one day represent.'

By Matthew Diller

6 minute read

February 26, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Fordham School of Law's former dean John D. Feerick represents not only one of the principal players in the historical drama of the 25th Amendment but also the visionary who is shaping it for the 21st century.

By Matthew Diller

7 minute read

September 26, 2016 | National Law Journal

Fordham, Stanford and other institutions are working to lessen the legal system's limitations.

By Jonathan Lippman, Matthew Diller and David Udell

11 minute read