NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fordham
Law School announced today that Pamela Bookman, Courtney Cox and
Sepehr Shahshahani have been appointed to the faculty. The three
professors will begin teaching classes in the fall term.

“We enthusiastically welcome Pamela, Courtney and Sepehr to Fordham Law
School,” said Fordham Law Dean Matthew Diller. “They are all extremely
accomplished and bring diverse backgrounds, intellectual rigor and
exceptional teaching skills that will benefit our students and the
entire law school community.”

Associate Professor Pamela Bookman comes to the law school from Temple
University Beasley School of Law, where she was an assistant professor.
Prior to entering academia, Bookman was counsel in the New York office
of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, where she advised clients on
complex commercial business disputes and international litigation. At
Fordham Law School, she will focus on civil procedure, contracts,
international litigation and arbitration and conflict of laws. She
clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the United States Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit, President Rosalyn Higgins and Judge Thomas
Buergenthal of the International Court of Justice and Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court. She has been published
extensively, including articles in Stanford Law Review, New York
University Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, and Notre Dame Law
Review. Bookman earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia and a B.A.
from Yale University magna cum laude with distinction in Russian
literature.

Associate Professor Courtney Cox joins the law school from practice at
Ropes & Gray LLP, where she was an intellectual property litigator. Her
research and teaching focus on law and philosophy, intellectual
property, property and torts law, with an emphasis on technology, time,
and risk. Cox clerked for former Chief Judge Sandra L. Lynch of the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She previously
taught philosophy as a lecturer at Oxford’s Hertford College and was a
Yale Fox Fellow at Fudan University in Shanghai. Cox earned her J.D., with
highest honors, from the University of Chicago Law School, where she
was a Rubenstein Scholar; a doctorate in philosophy from the University
of Oxford; and her B.A., magna cum laude with distinction, Phi
Beta Kappa, from Yale University.

Associate Professor Sepehr Shahshahani focuses on procedure and
intellectual property, with an emphasis on the application of formal and
quantitative methods. Shahshahani’s work has been published in
peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Law & Economics
and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, as well as law
reviews such as the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA
and the Minnesota Journal of Law and Science & Technology.
Prior to entering academia, Shahshahani clerked for Judge Ronald Lee
Gilman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Judge
William E. Smith of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode
Island. He was also a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison LLP. Shahshahani earned a Ph.D. in politics from
Princeton University, LL.M. from New York University School of Law,
J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law, and
B.A., with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Chicago.

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