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Pace University has named a deputy commissioner for the New York City Fire Department and longtime governmental attorney as the school's next vice president and general counsel....

Mardirossian’s thoughtful scholarship fund for the Pace University MCVA course will further students’ experiences within the program. The Producing the Documentary class grants students an unforgettable opportunity to work on a realistic film crew and travel to incredible locations abroad.

Pace University’s Esports Program, backed by founding sponsor American Technology Services (ATS), has taken the collegiate gaming scene by storm with a resounding victory in the March Madness bracket for college esports programs organized by Esports Foundry.

Professor Randolph McLaughlin discusses breaking news topics with Scripps News, providing his expert opinion on the recent Supreme Court ruling against West Virginia allowing a transgender student to compete on a girls track team and the controversy over two black Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee who were expelled from their seats.

“Most of them probably don’t know what Truth Social is. Obviously, if they use it, it tells you a lot about who they are. It's Trump's platform,” noted Bennett L. Gershman, a law professor at Pace University in New York City.

Professor Bennett Gershman writes about “The Tragic Case of Crosley Green” for Law & Crime. Green spent 31 years in prison before he was granted release in 2021 by a federal judge. Now, following two years of freedom with his family, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the ruling and ordered him back to prison next week. Professor Gershman recounts this unsettling case, examining the constitutional and ethical duties of the prosecutor who failed to disclose information resulting in the release, and questioning the “heart” of the American justice system.

Legal Theory Blog reports Professor Katrina Fisher Kuh posted an article on “Can the Constitution Save the Planet?”

Here is the abstract: The Constitution as presently worded, interpreted, and applied is obstructing the development of a robust societal response to climate change, in part by failing adequately to protect healthy democratic processes and advance real social justice. We could, of course, amend the Constitution to explicitly support protection of the environment and/or better protect democratic processes and advance social justice.

"To me, it's straightforward criminal law," said Bennett Gershman, a Pace University law professor and former prosecutor. "You've got the act, you've got the consequences and you've got the culpable mental state. I don't know how he could say he didn't intend to do it."

"They are going to try to throw as much smoke and mirrors and red herrings into the case as they can. With Trump, every single microscopic issue is going to be litigated," said Bennett Gershman, a law professor at Pace University.

For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. Blackwood’s syllabus includes a tour of Lower Manhattan locations featured in the author’s novels and stories: the Wall Street law offices where Bartleby, the titular scrivener of one of Melville’s best-known stories, worked, as well as the streets that Ishmael walked in the opening chapter of Moby-Dick.