Pace University News

Law Professor Emeritus Merril Sobie writes an op-ed in the New York Law Journal examining how delays in New York family court permanency hearings can deny children timely stability and disrupt family reunification. He explains that when cases drag on, appellate review is often blocked by the mootness doctrine—meaning key legal decisions affecting children’s lives may never receive meaningful oversight. Sobie calls for reforms to strengthen statutory protections for timely permanency and ensure the courts remain accountable in child welfare proceedings.

Dyson Public Administration Professor Ric Kolenda provides expert commentary to Treasure Coast News on rising unemployment along Florida’s Treasure Coast. Kolenda says he expects the trend to continue and notes that the effects could extend into the public sector.

In StartupHub.ai, Seidenberg Professor David Sachs is quoted on how the AI industry is splitting into distinct lanes. Sachs notes that he sees two types of models emerging: “the large, we can do everything model, and the more focused ones like Julius or Perplexity.”

New York Almanack highlights the forthcoming book Printing Nueva York: Spanish-Language Print Culture, Media Change, and Democracy in the Late Nineteenth Century (NYU Press, 2026), by Interim Associate Provost of Academic Programs and Strategy Kelley Kreitz, who leads the digital mapping project C19LatinoNYC.org. The piece explores how Spanish-language writers and editors in 19th-century New York built influential media networks that supported anti-colonial movements and strengthened democratic ideals.

Poets & Quants recently named Lubin Professor Jessica Magaldi among the 50 Best Undergraduate Business School Professors of 2025, highlighting her creative course “Music Industry Law (Taylor’s Version)”.

Dyson Professor Andrew Sciallo pens an op-ed in USA Today exploring how the American family isn’t collapsing—it’s evolving. He writes that today’s shifts in relationships, independence, and identity reflect adaptation to modern realities, even as older generations struggle with a version of the American dream no longer rooted in property or possessions.