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StudentsOctober 11, 2024
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Professor Bennett Gershman was quoted in The New York Post regarding potential jury tampering in the infamous Alex Murdaugh trial, calling it “astonishing and far more than just alarming if these allegations are true.”
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor John Bandler pens an op-ed in Reuters about the legal compliance obligations relating to cybersecurity and data breach reporting, and provides advice for businesses.
With a passion for environmentalism, inspired by her grandfather’s legal background, and while pursuing a MA in Environmental Policy at Pace University, Isabelle decided to pursue law school.
Born in New Delhi, Professor Smita Narula spent her childhood in South and Southeast Asia before moving to the United States. Inspired by her parents’ work with the U.N., she knew early on that she wanted to engage in human rights work. After law school, Professor Narula accepted a fellowship at Human Rights Watch and remained with the organization for six years, first as an India researcher, and later as Senior Researcher for South Asia. In these capacities, she helped found India’s National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights and the International Dalit Solidarity Network, organizations dedicated to advancing the right to equality for more than 260 million people affected by caste discrimination worldwide.
Now that one of the most prominent GOP election lawyers has joined the discussion, it makes the lawsuits "appear to be more politically neutral and much less a partisan effort by Democrats to keep Trump from running," Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon.
"I haven't seen anything that makes it anything more than crimes committed in the state of Georgia violating Georgia law," Bennett Gershman, a law professor at Pace University, said. "Has nothing really to do with federal jurisdiction."
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce that Sam Kalen will deliver the annual Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Lecture on Environmental Law. Professor Kalen is the William T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the University of Wyoming College of Law, as well as the founder and co-director of the School’s Center for Law and Energy Resources in the Rockies.
But courts are also "extremely reluctant" to sever defendants from joint trials, pointed out Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University. "It puts prosecutors at a disadvantage in having to reuse evidence and witnesses, and gives defendants who will be tried in the future a preview of the prosecutor's case," Gershman said.
Professor Bennett Gershman pens an op-ed in the New York Law Journal about the post-mortem on the police raid of a Kansas newspaper.
Haub Professor David Cassuto was featured in an interview with Jus Animalis, the largest Brazilian legal portal dedicated to Animal Law. (In Portuguese and English)
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