Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

He and Pace University professor Gershman point to a provision of the Tennessee Rules of Professional Conduct that says a lawyer has a conflict of interest when there is a “significant risk’’ that his or her representation of a client is materially limited by a personal interest. In this case, Weirch’s personal interest involves “getting elected,’’ said Gershman, who teaches prosecutorial ethics. “Clearly, to me, this would be a conflict of interest,’’ he said.

Donald Trump and his family were ordered to testify in the New York Attorney General’s investigation into allegations of fraudulent financial conduct by Trump and the Trump Organization. Although Trump and his children will appear for their depositions, don’t expect them to say anything. The smart money is that they will assert the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer any substantive questions.

In the ninth episode of “Groundtruth,” Associate Hilary Jacobs (Washington, DC), speaks with Professor Achinthi Vithanage, the Associate Director of Environmental Law Programs at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, and Jesse Glickstein, Environmental & Human Rights Counsel for Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Global Social and Environmental Responsibility Team. They discuss environmental justice (EJ) on a global scale and what companies can do to advance EJ, climate justice, and human rights goals worldwide. "Does international environmental law use the language of environmental justice? Sometimes it does. It's not often and it's not consistent. So when international environmental law does use environmental language, justice language, do they use the same definition as the U.S.? No, but there are similarities." — Professor Achinthi Vithanage

Professor Alexander K.A. Greenawalt is Stevens Family Faculty Scholar at Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.

“It’s messy. It’s a headache. And it’s a huge undertaking,” said Pace University law professor Bennett Gershman, an expert on discovery practices. “It seems to me if you’re going through the Trump stuff or [Rudy] Giuliani stuff [and you find something potentially useful to defendants] you’ve got to turn it over,” Gershman added. “They would have to turn over information to them that is colorably favorable or would be something a defense attorney would want to see.”

However, Pace University Law School Professor Bennett Gershman, who is also a former New York prosecutor, told the Washington Post that the Scotty David misconduct “probably won’t result in the verdict being vacated because the evidence is very, very strong and this information does not seem to me to be central to the ability of the jurors to make an informed and impartial fair verdict.”

In this episode, I speak with Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University Professors Bridget Crawford and Emily Waldman, the authors of the book Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law’s Silence on Periods. Bridget and Emily narrate how they came into the path of academia, as well as the pros and cons for other people who are considering the same path.