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The order ​“promised to bring about significant changes in Westchester County’s historic failure to provide affordable housing. We and groups around it were hopeful, excited,” says Bennett Gershman, a Pace University law professor who tracked the county’s progress on the settlement. ​“The words that come to mind now are ​‘slow,’ ​‘frustrating,’ ​‘foot dragging.’ Yes, there’s been progress, but it’s been halting, sluggish.”

Under Horace E. Anderson Jr., Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law has increased its enrollment, donations, full-time faculty and partnerships with leading universities worldwide. Anderson, an intellectual property and technology law specialist who joined the faculty in 2004, recently established the Sustainable Business Law Hub, a research incubator devoted to global sustainability. The school now boasts the nation’s top-ranked environmental law program, according to U.S. News & World Report. Anderson also strengthened social justice and community ties through the new Pace Access to Justice Project.

"His rise to stardom (particularly post-NSYNC) ripened from celebrity women like Britney Spears and Janet Jackson and illustrated how gender, misogyny, race and white male privilege operated in the entertainment industry," says Melvin Williams, associate professor of communication and media studies at Pace University.

Someone who reads a false, AI-generated statement, doesn’t confirm it, and widely shares that information does bear responsibility and could be sued under current libel standards, Leslie Garfield Tenzer, a professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, told me.

The takeaway, according to Myo Jung Cho, a professor of accounting at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business and the paper’s other co-author, is that rather than convey a company’s virtue, trust words may instead act as a red flag, highlighting potential pitfalls for investors and regulations.

“The standards of civility, kindness, empathy, and tolerance that Carter set for himself never really caught on in American politics,” says Kerriann Stout, a history professor who also teaches constitutional law at Pace University in New York. “Carter’s politics may have been what this country needed,” she says, but “time has demonstrated it is not what it wanted.”