Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

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Pace: Senator Elizabeth Warren

Professor Bennett Gershman pens an op-ed in Law & Crime about questions Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should answer.

85. Jason J. Czarnezki

Associate Dean and Executive Director, Environmental Law Programs, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University- In the 10 years that Jason Czarnezki has taught at Pace University’s environmental law program, the department has been among the top-rated programs in the country according to the U.S. News & World Report. Czarnezki helped the farmers market operator GrowNYC formalize its relationship with the school’s food and beverage law clinic in 2021. The following year, he became the faculty director for Pace’s sustainable business law hub, which is devoted to addressing sustainability challenges through research and public policy.

Chris Rizzo is a Partner with Carter Ledyard and Milburn LLP and Director of the Environmental Practice at the firm. From the moment he decided he wanted to attend law school, Chris knew that he was specifically going to focus on environmental law. From participating in the environmental litigation clinic, to environmental law review, and ultimately graduating with an environmental law certificate, Pace provided the environmental legal education he sought out.

Pace University has named a deputy commissioner for the New York City Fire Department and longtime governmental attorney as the school's next vice president and general counsel....

Professor Randolph McLaughlin discusses breaking news topics with Scripps News, providing his expert opinion on the recent Supreme Court ruling against West Virginia allowing a transgender student to compete on a girls track team and the controversy over two black Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee who were expelled from their seats.

“Most of them probably don’t know what Truth Social is. Obviously, if they use it, it tells you a lot about who they are. It's Trump's platform,” noted Bennett L. Gershman, a law professor at Pace University in New York City.

Professor Bennett Gershman writes about “The Tragic Case of Crosley Green” for Law & Crime. Green spent 31 years in prison before he was granted release in 2021 by a federal judge. Now, following two years of freedom with his family, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the ruling and ordered him back to prison next week. Professor Gershman recounts this unsettling case, examining the constitutional and ethical duties of the prosecutor who failed to disclose information resulting in the release, and questioning the “heart” of the American justice system.

Legal Theory Blog reports Professor Katrina Fisher Kuh posted an article on “Can the Constitution Save the Planet?”

Here is the abstract: The Constitution as presently worded, interpreted, and applied is obstructing the development of a robust societal response to climate change, in part by failing adequately to protect healthy democratic processes and advance real social justice. We could, of course, amend the Constitution to explicitly support protection of the environment and/or better protect democratic processes and advance social justice.