Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

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.”

Professor Randolph McLaughlin was a featured guest on the Newsy Morning Rush Show to discuss the Arbery case verdict. Newsy is the leading provider in 24-hour live streaming video news. Elisabeth Haub School of Law

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 that for plaintiffs to win on the first two claims, it was imperative that the evidence showed at least some of the defendants had an agreement to engage in a racially motivated conspiracy and plan illegal acts.

“I’m not sure what the purpose of impeachment is. Impeachment is to remove him from office,” said Bennett Gershman, a law professor at Pace University.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University has received a generous five-year grant to name its Investor Rights Clinic after RealFi Financial LLC, a leading, technology-driven, real estate lending and asset management firm.

Professor Bennett Gershwin and Ellen Yaroshefsky's article in the New York Law Journal examines why prosecutors, the most powerful public officials in America, are rarely sanctioned when they break the rules citing the impact of Judiciary Law §90(10).