Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor Bennett Gershman speaks with Salon about how former Trump lawyers could face “disbarment” and “possibly be jailed” over court stunts.

“Trump’s lawyers are perilously close to being sanctioned once again and more heavily by Judge Engoron for their misconduct,” Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon. “They are behaving in manifest bad faith by intentionally delaying and obstructing the proceedings and deliberately creating a spectacle to promote Trump's fundraising. Lawyers in any legal proceeding foresee an appeal if they lose and try to make a complete and proper record for appellate review.”

Municipalities use local-level land use law for a variety of purposes. The Land Use Law Center at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University (the Center), in 2022, engaged in a project to analyze how municipalities are using their land use powers to advance the various goals of climate resilient development (CRD). The Center produced a set of guidelines for analyzing municipal CRD strategies (PDF) by answering the following questions: 1. What CRD objectives does this strategy achieve, 2. What methods are there to ensure resilience, 3. What methods are there to avoid maladaptation, and 4. What is the feasibility of this strategy? These focus areas are borrowed from the Summary for Policymakers in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group II Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, which featured CRD as one of the proposed solutions.

“Knowing this will enable the prosecutors to prepare to counter that defense through witnesses and arguments showing the weakness of that defense, and indeed, that such defense is completely untenable given Trump’s statements and actions that show he himself made all the critical decisions relating to subverting the 2020 election results,” Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon.

The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) highlighted the pioneering leadership of Pace Law Dean Emeritus Richard L. Ottinger in a tribute commemorating 40 years of Climate Action.

The Hudson Independent reports Professor John Nolon recently was a guest speaker at the Irvington Green’s monthly Climate Talk to discuss how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes local land use law can be a climate solution.

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor Bennett Gershman discusses the growing challenges facing prosecutors in the latest episode of A Reasonable Doubt, a podcast hosted by renowned criminal defense lawyer Mark Geragos.

Professor Jill Gross is quoted by Financial Advisor IQ regarding pressure on the SEC to loosen the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s control of securities-industry arbitration from Thrivent, a Finra member firm.

Pace University Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman was featured on the Voice of America podcast discussing bribery and conspiracy charges against U.S. Senator Robert Menendez.