Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

Together with members of the Westchester County Board of Legislators, Westchester County Executive George Latimer signed the Safety Measures for Survivors of Domestic Violence Act. The Act is part of an ongoing effort to protect victims and survivors of domestic and gender-based violence. In part, the Act will provide free lock changes and the installation of a video doorbell at a domestic violence survivor’s home.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is proud to announce that Dean Horace E. Anderson Jr. was named to the “2024 Trailblazers in Education” list published by City & State New York magazine. The list recognizes “100 professionals who are keeping New York at the fast-paced forefront of higher education" and includes presidents, professors and provosts, lobbyists, lawyers, nonprofit entrepreneurs, advocates, and others who are shaping the future of education.

Pace | Haub Environmental Law Professor Katrina Fischer Kuh co-authored a chapter in a book released today from MIT Press, Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation, edited by David Orr.

Alumnus Jessica Dubuss ’09 has been using her legal acumen and writing skills in ways she never imagined back in law school. As Executive Director of Marketing and Communications at Haub, she is the law school’s chief storyteller, sharing the impressive achievements of our students, alumni and faculty across our many communications channels. In her personal life as a mom of soon to be five (!) young children, she has also tapped into her law school advocacy skills in her mission to bring diversity, equity and inclusion to her small hometown, organizing the community’s first ever PRIDE celebration among other DEI events and initiatives for youth.

Haub Law Professor Emeritus Michael Mushlin was featured in an oral history video series produced by the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. During the candid interviews, Professor Mushlin talks about his childhood in Meridian, Mississippi, his education, and his early career, including his time as a lawyer with the Legal Aid Society's Prisoners' Rights Project where he litigated several cases on behalf of pre-trial detainees in New York City's jail system. He reflects on lawsuits challenging conditions in the New York City jails in the 1970s and 1980s, including Rhem v. Malcolm, Benjamin v. Horn, and Bell v. Wolfish, as well as the effect of the Prison Litigation Reform Act.

Law Professor Bennett Gershman speaks about public schools having broad power to limit offensive and controversial speech on their campuses. “Schools can always regulate offensive speech,” Gershman said. “The [US] Supreme Court has made very clear that schools can regulate offensive speech. And if schools deem this speech is offensive, the schools can prohibit it.”

Law Professor Bennett Gershman pens an op-ed in The New York Law Journal about an undercover journalist, posing as a Catholic conservative at the Supreme Court Historical Society, cornering Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, asking them provocative questions, and surreptitiously recorded their remarks without telling them that she was a journalist and that they were being recorded.