The Journal News reports Gov. Kathy Hochul recently signed a bill that bans wildlife killing contests. This past year, getting the legislation passed became the top priority of Pace University's Animal Advocacy Clinic, where students researched wildlife killing contests, petitioned and lobbied for the passage of S4099/A2917. Pace’s Animal Advocacy Clinic class is led by Dyson Professor Michelle Land, with Director of Blue CoLab John Cronin as co-instructor.

Above the Law reports The Elisabeth Haub School of Law was ranked #7 in the nation among law schools with the highest percentage of graduates employed in government work, according to a recent survey published by Law.com. Whether they aim to pursue justice for the environment, advocate for underserved populations, or serve the community at large, Haub Law and its active Public Interest Law Center help students pursue their altruistic service goals, and contribute to advancing our society.

Professor James Fishman speaks with Courthouse News Service about NRA facing an ‘existential’ New York trial that threatens its future.

Many experts, like Pace University law professor James Fishman, are shocked that the NRA allowed the lawsuit to get this far. “Usually what happens is, if an organization is approached by the attorney general who says ‘you are doing wrong,’ they will do whatever they can to settle before trial,” Fishman said in an interview. “Because it’s disastrous for the organization. Some organizations never recover from it.”

Nursing Process reports Pace University is one of the top 10 best FNP programs in New York.

Professor Bennett Gershman tells Salon the court won’t let Trump lawyers try to get jurors to “disregard” the law.

The trial court will likely find that allegations of foreign influence, disinformation and biased prosecutors and other government officials will mostly "confuse" the jury and are evidently "not relevant" to Trump's state of mind, Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon. This is particularly true given that he was “repeatedly” and “strongly” advised by insiders close to him that he lost the election. “It’s a desperate and distracting effort to throw all sorts of wild and irrational claims against the wall and hope that something sticks,” Gershman said. “In legal circles, it’s mockingly referred to as the ‘shotgun’ or ‘kitchen sink’ defense.”

Director of Blue CoLab John Cronin speaks with Bonita Springs Florida Weekly about why water quality and collaboration matters.

Cronin, now a professor at Pace University, once fought the polluters with lawsuits. Today he finds ways to influence attitudes. Protecting the environment, he believes, requires more than laws, regulations, and sanctions. It requires that we embrace environmental stewardship as a way of life.

Professor Nicholas Robinson speaks to Times Union about the Green Amendment case over massive landfill being under appeal and its potential broader impact.

“It’s going to be watched very closely,” said Nicholas Robinson, a law professor at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law. “It will be persuasive to any other cases that are pending.”

Pace University School of Law has tracked Green Amendment claims that have sprung up in several other cases around the state, including the People of the State of New York v. Norlite (PDF).

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor and staff attorney for the Food & Farm Business Law Clinic Jack Hornickel speaks with The Examiner News about a local organic farm being forced to relocate.

“The trend in the last few years of greater land unaffordability was fueled by COVID,” said Jack Hornickel, a staff attorney for the Food & Farm Business Law Clinic at Pace University in Pleasantville who has been advising Deacon. “It was an outward urban migration and because land values are driven by a free market, there are higher more profitable uses for the land than farming.”

Dyson Professor Melvin Williams speaks with USA Today about Gypsy Rose Blanchard being free from prison and going viral over the internet.

"The curiosity fades hastily as algorithm-influenced digital publics move on to the next trending story, and Gypsy's transitory celebrity span fails to sustain interest," says Melvin Williams, associate professor of communication and media studies at Pace University.