Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

Legal experts agreed the appellate panel’s decision is highly unusual. “The delay here is extraordinary — six years — and where the prosecution has failed to explain their dereliction in not trying the case sooner,” said Bennett Gershman, a law professor at Pace University.

Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman examines John Giuca’s struggle to prove that his 2005 murder conviction was tainted by a Brooklyn prosecutor’s extensive misconduct in his article “A Perverse Decision” published in the New York Law Journal.

That's what law professor Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer told The Sun she believes is the most likely outcome because Rock has - so far - said he won't press charges. Tenzer, who teaches at New York's Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, said a criminal case and civil lawsuit hinges on the comedian's participation. "What Will Smith did meets every requirement of criminal assault under California's penal code," Tenzer said.

Haub Law Professor Bennet Gershman is featured in a documentary on a famous Scarsdale murder case - Before “The Fatal Attraction Killer” — a new three-part Oxygen special about an actual 1989 deadly love triangle — airs on Saturday, March 26 and Sunday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m./7:00 p.m. central, learn whether the Oscar-nominated movie in which Dan, a married lawyer (Michael Douglas), cheats on his wife with Alex (Glenn Close), who refuses to go away after the weekend fling, is drawn from a real-life case.

Pace’s Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Team Pre-Moots with Numerous International Teams ahead of spring competition

“We’re now seating justices who are going to be steering the ship as we deal with increasingly disruptive climate effects,” said Katrina Fischer Kuh, an environmental law professor at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law. “These are the justices who will be guiding our legal response to all of the impacts we’ve known are coming for a very long time but that seem to be manifesting more quickly and with greater severity.”