Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University’s new Access to Justice (A2J) Lab brought together students from across Pace University to apply human-centered design-thinking and legal training to create an innovative technology tool to address a real-world gap in access to justice.

As the Ghislaine Maxwell trial heats up, the defense is facing the difficult task of cross-examining the women cited as victims. Haub Law Prof. Bennett Gershman, called attacking the accusers a “huge risk,” in an interview with KELO News.

This is a baseless fishing expedition based on rumor, suspicion and innuendo,” Randolph McLaughlin, attorney for Council President Mike Khader.

Professor Leslie Garfield Tenzer writes about the judiciary’s failure to find fault when users post potentially libelous words on social media in this article for Westchester Lawyer.

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U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan on Tuesday rejected Maxwell’s bid to call Bennett Gershman, a professor at Pace Law School in White Plains, New York, who has served as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan and a defense lawyer. Maxwell’s lawyers described Gershman as a “leading authority on prosecutorial misconduct” who has written extensively on the subject.

Randolph McLaughlin, a professor at the Haub School of Law at Pace University, who successfully used the Ku Klux Klan Act in a civil trial in Tennessee in the 1980s, said defendants in these cases don’t typically have deep pockets, so it’s not necessarily about the money. “You’re not suing to make a buck,” he said. “You’re suing to bankrupt them.”