Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

On December 6, 2024, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University hosted the 23rd annual Alfred B. DelBello Land Use and Sustainable Development Conference. This year’s theme, Fostering the Development of Sustainable Communities through Innovative Strategies, brought together hundreds of attorneys, professionals, and local leaders to discuss best practices in land use and sustainable development.

Pace University was recently awarded $476,000 from the Mellon Foundation to support a three-year interdisciplinary initiative, Islands, Archipelagos, and Cultural Ecologies. The project will advance environmental justice and the environmental humanities at Pace, building on the university’s strengths in experiential learning and place-based education.

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor Bennett Gershman provides legal sight to Salon analyzing how, despite the dismissal of certain charges, scathing evidence against Trump could still emerge.

On November 22, 2024, the Fall 2024 Pace-Maryland Colloquium was held at the UMD Carey School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland. For the Fall 2024 event, a cohort of Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University Environmental Law students traveled down to Baltimore joining their student colleagues at UMD Law for an entirely student-focused environmental academic event.

Professor Jill I. Gross, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and a distinguished faculty member of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University , is shedding light on the past and future of arbitration law with her newest book, The Federal Arbitration Act: Successes, Failures, and a Roadmap for Reform.

With an early passion for the environment, Colin Myers ’21 attended the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (“SUNY ESF”) and enrolled in a major that would set him on a path to becoming a New York State Environmental Conservation Officer. It was during his junior year, when he began taking business law and environmental law and policy classes that Colin started thinking about law school.

Professor Bennett Gershman spoke to FOX 5 NY about the potential impact of a new administration on Mayor Adams’ pending legal case.

The Westchester County Association honored Distinguished Professor Emeritus John R. Nolon, founder of the Pace Land Use Law Center, with the Alfred B. DelBello Visionary Award.

When 3L Janay Russo was exploring colleges, she found herself captivated by a pressing question: Why does such severe inequality persist within the legal system? Her unrelenting curiosity about the foundations of law and the societal and economic biases shaping the criminal justice system, inspired her to pursue an undergraduate degree in Justice Studies and Criminology at James Madison University.

Professor Gershman speaks to Salon about the likelihood of President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush-money case being postponed—potentially until after his presidency.