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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.
Professor Bennett Gershman provides expert insight to Lohud about a federal appeals court decision solidifying the public's right to criticize police officers, even using profanities, over their conduct in public.
"It was a terrible, terrible exercise of police conduct and judgment," commented Bennett Gershman, a constitutional law professor at Pace University's Elisabeth Haub School of Law. "It was so clear that McAlister knew that what he was doing was wrong."
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor Katrina Kuh speaks to Bloomberg Law News about the green amendment gaining traction in more states ahead of elections.
Right now, only Montana, Pennsylvania, and New York have green amendments as van Rossum defines them—to qualify as a true green amendment in her eyes, it must be enshrined in a state’s bill of rights. But environmental rights located farther down in other states’ constitutions still fuel cases, said Katrina Fischer Kuh, a law professor at Pace University.
The Pace Women’s Justice Center (PWJC) was featured on CBS News showcasing their powerful work in the community, from providing free legal services for victims of abuse, to their innovative preventative outreach campaign, #LoveIsnt. The segment highlights the important discussions the PWJC is leading at local high schools to educate students on safety, legal rights, and how to recognize signs of abusive behavior.
Over 20 students, professors, and administrators from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law and Dyson College of Arts and Sciences at Pace University spent four days during their winter break in Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama, visiting the offices of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and several historical sites for an intense interdisciplinary civil rights field study.
Twenty students from Pace’s Haub School of Law and Dyson College embarked on a profound interdisciplinary field study to Alabama alongside the Equal Justice Initiative, looking into history to understand its impact on the present and actively seek ways to eliminate injustice and inequality.
Pace | Haub Environmental Law Professor Jason Czarnezki's article "A Brief Legal History of Wisconsin Conservation,” 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.”
A generational environmentalist, learn about Professor Czarnezki’s recent research interests, his family full of outdoor enthusiasts, and more in this Q+A.
“Ordering the dissolution of a business for financial fraud is an extraordinary remedy, some people even claiming it to be akin to the death penalty,” Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon. “Dissolution, or liquidation, hardly ever happens, especially when there is no proof that victims were harmed or financial institutions lost money.”
News 12 reports Professor Shelby Green was elected as a new member to the Westchester Parks Foundation Board of Directors.
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