Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

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.

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.

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.