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Announcements and StatementsApril 2, 2025
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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.”
“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.”
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.
Inside Higher Ed features an article showcasing successful effective initiatives in recruiting diverse students to the humanities they highlight Pace University’s Writing for Diversity and Equity in Theater and Media program, which mandates that students’ complete humanities and theater courses, as well as engage with working professionals on a regular basis through master classes and field trips, to build professional development.
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor John Bandler pens an op-ed in Reuters about building and updating organizations' policies and procedures.
Pace University recently celebrated community leaders and alumni at the Spirit of Pace Awards. New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins was among those who've been recognized alongside other honorees.
According to James Stakenburg, Executive Director of the program, "We encourage students to experience U.S. culture firsthand by joining university groups and participating in cultural and social activities. ELI students can meet with native English speakers through the Conversation Partner Program sponsored by Pace University. In this program, students can practice their English conversational skills, develop greater international understanding, and establish warm friendships."
Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman speaks with CNN anchor Jim Sciutto about Hunter Biden's conviction, saying "probation is very likely."
The News India Times reports Shubham Harishchandra Madhavi ‘24 recently won the Project Planet USA contest, securing a $15,000 grant for his innovative concept aimed at addressing climate change.