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Dean Emeritus Richard Ottinger, of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, and Professor Wang Xi, of Kunming University of Science and Technology in China, have published a book that compares efforts to curb air pollution in two of the world’s largest urban areas, Los Angeles and Beijing. Their book, A Tale of Two Cities: A Comparison of Air Pollution Governance in the Los Angeles Area of the USA and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Area of China, was more than 8 years in the making and the product of a joint study with Renewables 100 Policy Institute.
Haub Law Professor Bridget Crawford’s forthcoming book, Social Movements and the Law: Talking About Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, co-authored with Lolita Buckner Inniss, Dean and Professor, University of Colorado Law School, will be published by the University of California Press.
Professor Bennett Gershman speaks with Salon about U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon agreeing to let Trump and his lawyers view classified documents privately, with her but without prosecutor’s present.
“Judge Cannon’s agreeing to let Trump and his lawyers view these documents privately, with her but without prosecutors present, is highly unusual and irresponsible,” Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon.
Assistant Director of Law School Admissions Lisa Bertrand provides expert insight to Diversity Woman on how to help your direct reports succeed.
“I recommend creating open space where you don’t have an agenda going in, especially for one-on-one meetings,” says Lisa Nicole Bertrand, assistant director of admissions at Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in New York City. “The person may have a question they are dying to ask, and sometimes not having an agenda can help conversation.”
“The Supreme Court is not blind to Trump’s strategy to delay his trial as long as he can," said Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, in an interview with Salon. "My sense is the court appears to want to move this case quickly. A one-week timeline for Smith’s response is not unreasonable, although Smith probably will file his response within days.”
Times Free Press reports Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professors Randy McLaughlin and Betty Lewis were featured in the premiere of “How to Sue the Klan,” a documentary inspired by a historic civil case that they won in 1982 which set a legal precedent against organized hate.
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is proud to announce that Achinthi Vithanage, Associate Director of Environmental Law Programs & Adjunct Professor at Haub Law, was named to the 2024 Lawdragon Green 500: Leaders in Environmental Law.
It is “commonplace” in criminal litigation that when the defense has a “weak case,” they attack the prosecutor, Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon. Here, the defense is claiming that the prosecution had failed to disclose evidence that Trump had a security clearance to retain documents at Mar-a-Lago and that the White House and other federal agencies possessed critical but undisclosed information relevant to the defense case.
Professor Jason Czarnezki's article, co-authored with 3L Carolyn Drell, was published in the Marquette Law Review. The article examines the legal history of Wisconsin conservation — how the state’s conservation values were expressed in law, how its natural resources law has evolved and what that has (and has not) embodied, and how Wisconsin helps us define modern concepts of “conservation.”
Associate Director of Environmental Law Programs, Achinthi Vithanage, was selected to the 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Environmental Lawyers guide for the 3rd year in a row.
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