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Pace University Professor Leslie Garfield Tenzer was featured in a American Bar Association article for her Legal Emoji Dictionary, a helpful resource in courtroom litigation and the first of its kind. “An older person looks at an eggplant and sees a vegetable, but someone younger sees a penis,” Tenzer says. “It really becomes an issue if in a case the decision-maker is an older jury or an older judge. They may interpret the meaning differently from the individual who used it in their conversation.”

Pace | Haub Environmental Law Professor Josh Galperin spoke with USA Today about how the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Chevron ruling shifts regulatory authority from agencies to courts, calling the decision “troubling.”

Pace University’s Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman examines “A Little-Noticed Supreme Court Opinion That Could Bring Huge Consequences” in an article for the New York Law Journal.

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.

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.”