Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor Bennett Gershman pens an op-ed in the New York Law Journal about prosecutors having the right to express their views robustly without government interference or retaliation.

Professor Randolph McLaughlin provides expert insight to Fortune about opponents of workplace diversity programs increasingly banking on a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to challenge equity policies as well as funding to minority-owned businesses.

Professor Bennett Gershman speaks with Salon about Donald Trump facing trial again in New York to determine additional damages for defaming former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when he denied her sexual assault allegations.

Adirondack Explorer writes about how residents brought nine lawsuits under the approved a constitutional amendment establishing a state right to a “clean and healthful environment,” according to a tally of the cases compiled by the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.

The report describes a president “shockingly derelict” in immediately intervening to stop the “most serious invasion” of the Capitol by domestic terrorists in the nation’s history, Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon.

The judge became concerned that Trump would use the courtroom as “political theater” to stoke all of his anger and resentment against the prosecutor and the judge for “orchestrating a sham prosecution against him,” Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon. His move would have likely had “zero impact” on the verdict and penalties anyway, but instead would have been perceived as “gospel” by his followers and “blather” by his critics.

Horace E. Anderson, Jr., Dean of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, was honored as a recipient of the 2023 Changemaker Award by Nonprofit Westchester (NPW) at the organization’s Keep Westchester Thriving Awards Ceremony last month.