Pace University News

Professor Katrina Kuh speaks to Governors' Wind Energy Coalition about the Supreme Court appearing to be on the verge of erasing a tool for federal agencies to defend their environmental regulations against legal attack.

“It’s just so unfortunate that we are entering a moment where we are starting to have to respond to the real-world, on-the-ground impacts of climate change,” said Katrina Fischer Kuh, an environmental law professor at Pace University. “It would be great to have a network of expert scientists to help us in this moment, and it feels like we are in the exact opposite place.”

Times Free Press reports Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professors Randy McLaughlin and Betty Lewis were featured in the premiere of “How to Sue the Klan,” a documentary inspired by a historic civil case that they won in 1982 which set a legal precedent against organized hate.

University Business ranks Pace University as one of the top 15 institutions producing the most homegrown entrepreneurs. In fact, 38% of Pace graduates launched their own business.

It is “commonplace” in criminal litigation that when the defense has a “weak case,” they attack the prosecutor, Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon. Here, the defense is claiming that the prosecution had failed to disclose evidence that Trump had a security clearance to retain documents at Mar-a-Lago and that the White House and other federal agencies possessed critical but undisclosed information relevant to the defense case.

Nursing Process ranks Pace University as the fourth best military/veteran friendly nursing school in the nation for 2024.

Associate Director of Environmental Law Programs, Achinthi Vithanage, was selected to the 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Environmental Lawyers guide for the 3rd year in a row.

Professor Bennett Gershman provides expert insight to Lohud about a federal appeals court decision solidifying the public's right to criticize police officers, even using profanities, over their conduct in public.

"It was a terrible, terrible exercise of police conduct and judgment," commented Bennett Gershman, a constitutional law professor at Pace University's Elisabeth Haub School of Law. "It was so clear that McAlister knew that what he was doing was wrong."