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With the cheer squad and pep band in full swing and faculty and staff cheering on the incoming class, Pace University on Tuesday hosted Convocation on two of its campuses: New York City and Pleasantville in Westchester County.

Pace University has been named as one of the 40 best colleges and universities across the country for LGBTQ+ students by Campus Pride, the preeminent resource for LGBTQ+ leadership development, inclusion and advocacy within higher education, the university today announced.

The newly named Food and Farm Business Law Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University announced that it will expand its legal services with $225,000 in funding included for the clinic in the New York State budget. The funding will support the hire of a Program Coordinator, who will join the pro bono clinic this fall, and provide other sustaining support for the clinic. The new name of the Food and Farm Business Law Clinic, formerly known as the Food and Beverage Law Clinic, reflects its broad work with clients from across New York State, including small farm businesses, artisan food manufacturers, craft beverage entrepreneurs, and related nonprofit organizations, while also emphasizing its focus on providing direct transactional business law experience to law students.

Professor Elizabeth D. Katz of Washington University in St. Louis School of Law has been selected as the 2021-2022 Haub Law Emerging Scholar in Gender & Law for her paper Sex, Suffrage, and State Constitutional Law: Women’s Legal Right to Hold Public Office, 33 Yale J. Law & Feminism. 110 (2022). Professor Katz is an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis School. During the 2022-2023 academic year, Professor Katz will be a visiting professor of law at Northwestern, Duke, and Boston College. She teaches first-year criminal law, family law, and a seminar on the law’s treatment of race and religion in family contexts, historically and today.

Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University Professor Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer is the host of a newly launched podcast, Legal Tenzer: Casual Conversations on Noteworthy Legal Topics. Created in collaboration with West Academic, Legal Tenzer, will serve as a platform for casual conversations on timely legal issues between Professor Tenzer and prominent legal scholars and practitioners.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is proud to have been ranked #11 out of the top 20 ABA-accredited law schools for women. A Women in Law School report from Enjuris compiled data from the ABA on law school enrollment in 2021. For the sixth year in a row, women made up the majority (55%) of law school students pursuing JD degrees in the United States. The report broke down law school gender diversity by state and highlighted the top-ranked schools for women. Haub Law is proud to be a top choice for women when they are considering their law education!

Anthony Mancini, PhD, will partner with Pace students for four-year project.

After four theater showings, film to make online premiere on June 27. The PaceDocs Team focuses its film on the remarkable journey of oysters, their farmers, and their role in cleaning the water.

Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University Professors Bridget J. Crawford and Emily Gold Waldman announce the release of their book “Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law’s Silence on Periods,” published by NYU Press. The book explores the burgeoning menstrual advocacy movement and analyzes how law should evolve to take menstruation into account. It asks what the law currently says about menstruation and provides a roadmap for legal reform that can move society closer to a world where no one is held back or disadvantaged by menstruation.