When Pace University renamed its law school in honor of Elisabeth Haub in 2016, it celebrated more than a transformative partnership. It recognized a shared commitment to environmental stewardship, public service, and the belief that law can be a powerful force for protecting people and the planet.

Years later, as Elisabeth Haub School of Law marks the 10th anniversary of its naming during the Law School’s 50th anniversary year, that vision continues to guide the Institution and inspire environmental leaders around the world.

Elisabeth Haub devoted her life to conservation, environmental protection, and philanthropy. Long before sustainability became a global priority, she championed efforts to preserve natural resources and support organizations dedicated to environmental stewardship. Her commitment to protecting the natural world became a defining legacy—one that continues today through the work of her family and the institutions that bear her name.

We want to continue the legacy of my grandmother, Elisabeth Haub, who was a pioneer in environmental protection, and endowing this law school in her name ensures her vision will continue to impact future generations.

—Christian W.E. Haub, 2016

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The decision to rename the Law School in her honor reflected a natural alignment between Elisabeth Haub’s values and Pace’s longstanding leadership in environmental law. For decades, the Law School has educated lawyers, policymakers, advocates, and scholars committed to addressing some of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. The Haub name strengthened that connection and affirmed a shared belief that environmental protection and the rule of law are inseparable. In doing so, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law also became just one of two ABA-accredited law schools in the United States named solely in honor of a woman, an enduring recognition of Elisabeth Haub’s extraordinary legacy and leadership.

One of the most enduring expressions of that legacy is the Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy. Established in 1979, the award has long recognized individuals whose work has advanced environmental protection through law, policy, and international cooperation. Over the years, recipients have included heads of state, diplomats, jurists, policymakers, scientists, and environmental advocates whose leadership has helped shape environmental governance on a global scale. Among its laureates are architects of the Paris Climate Agreement, leading climate activists, international negotiators, and United Nations experts whose work has shaped environmental law and policy around the world.

In 2016, the award entered a new chapter when the Elisabeth Haub Foundation and Elisabeth Haub School of Law partnered to create the Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy in its current form. The collaboration united a distinguished tradition of environmental recognition with the Law School’s internationally respected environmental law program, further elevating the award’s global profile and reinforcing its role as one of the field’s most prestigious honors.

The award celebrates individuals whose leadership demonstrates the values that defined Elisabeth Haub’s life: environmental stewardship, international cooperation, and a commitment to addressing complex global challenges. Through the award, the School continues to recognize those whose work advances environmental protection and inspires meaningful change around the world.

The Haub family’s commitment to environmental stewardship and education remains as strong today as it was a decade ago. Steadfast friends and benefactors of Pace University, subsequent generations of the family have continued to advance Elisabeth Haub’s vision through philanthropy, environmental leadership, and support for educational opportunity. In 2026, Liliane and Christian Haub were recognized at Pace University’s Spirit of Pace Awards, which honor individuals whose professional achievements, service, and longstanding support have strengthened the University community. Their recognition reflects the enduring legacy of leadership and generosity that has connected the Haub family to Pace University for generations.

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Liliane Haub, who has served on Pace University’s Board of Trustees for more than ten years, has dedicated much of her career to environmental conservation and sustainability initiatives around the world. Through leadership roles with organizations focused on conservation, environmental education, and land preservation, she has continued the family’s longstanding commitment to protecting the natural world. Christian Haub, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of the Tengelmann Group, has carried forward the entrepreneurial and philanthropic traditions of a sixth-generation family enterprise while remaining deeply connected to the environmental values championed by his grandmother. In recent years, Liliane and Christian’s children have continued the family’s legacy through their own participation and support of the Law School, reflecting a multigenerational commitment to advancing legal education and environmental stewardship.

As the Law School celebrates its 50th anniversary, the 10th anniversary of the Haub naming offers an opportunity to reflect not only on a remarkable partnership, but also on a legacy that continues to grow. From Elisabeth Haub’s pioneering environmental advocacy to the international impact of the Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy, and from the continued leadership of the Haub family to the students and scholars carrying that work forward, the Haub legacy remains a defining part of the School’s identity.

A decade after the renaming, Elisabeth Haub’s vision continues to inspire action, foster innovation, and demonstrate the power of law to advance environmental protection and the public good.

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The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce that Professor Philipp Schlüter has joined its full-time faculty as Assistant Professor of Law. Professor Schlüter brings an outstanding international and comparative perspective to the Law School. He will teach Commercial Law (Sales), Contracts, Civil Procedure, and Remedies.

Professor Schlüter’s scholarship spans the core fields of private law—including contract, tort, property, and unjust enrichment—as well as civil procedure, remedies, and bankruptcy. Across these areas, his research examines the relationship between legal form and substantive outcomes, drawing on comparative law to explore how formalism and functionalism shape legal doctrine.

“We are thrilled to welcome Professor Philipp Schlüter to the Haub Law faculty,” said Horace E. Anderson Jr., Dean of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law. “Professor Schlüter brings a thoughtful international and comparative perspective that will enrich both our curriculum and our scholarly community. His expertise across private law, civil procedure, and comparative legal systems will provide our students with valuable insight into the ways legal doctrines develop and evolve across jurisdictions.”

Prior to joining Haub Law, Professor Schlüter held academic positions at the University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, and worked at the German Federal Chancellery in Berlin and UNIDROIT in Rome, among others. Most recently, he served as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Freiburg, where he taught Contracts, Property, Torts, and U.S. Contract Law and received the Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Faculty Teaching Prize.

Professor Schlüter has published extensively on private law and civil procedure in leading German legal journals and scholarly publications and has presented his research at academic institutions and conferences in both the United States and Germany. He received his legal education in Germany, earning his doctorate in law from the University of Freiburg. He also holds an LLM from Yale Law School and is on track to complete his JSD there this September.

“I am delighted to join the faculty at Haub Law and to become part of its academic community,” said Professor Schlüter. “I look forward to working with students in the classroom, continuing to develop my scholarship, and engaging with colleagues across the Law School. I am especially excited about the opportunity to bring my comparative perspective to both my teaching and research.”

Professor Schlüter’s appointment is the latest addition to Haub Law’s full-time faculty. The Law School recently welcomed Professor Allison Pincus as Assistant Professor of Law and welcomed Professor Jason J. Czarnezki back to the faculty as Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Bar Strategy and Performance.

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The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce that it has selected Professor Aisha Saad to receive the 2026–2027 Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Award. Presented annually, the award recognizes an emerging environmental law professor who exhibits scholarly excellence and promise at an early stage in their career. The Haub Environmental Law Faculty solicits nominations from law professors throughout the country and selects a recipient from that pool of nominees.

Professor Saad is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where her areas of expertise include environmental law, business organizations and securities regulation, and torts. Her scholarship brings together interests in environmental law and corporate governance, examining important questions about the relationship between law, business, and environmental and social challenges.

“We are delighted to recognize Professor Saad with this year’s Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Award,” said Margot J. Pollans, Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Development at Haub Law. “Her scholarship brings a thoughtful and interdisciplinary perspective to important questions at the intersection of environmental law and corporate governance. We look forward to welcoming her to Haub Law and engaging with her work as part of our Future Environmental Law Professors Workshop.”

Prior to joining Georgetown Law, Professor Saad was a Dickerson Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, a fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance and editor of the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, as well as the inaugural Bartlett Fellow at Yale Law School. Professor Saad is also an Honorary Research Associate at Oxford University and leads executive education programming for Oxford’s Sustainable Law Program. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Boston College Law Review, Nature Climate Change, the Columbia Business Law Review, the Berkeley Business Law Journal, the Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, and in edited volumes by Routledge and Palgrave MacMillan.

“I am honored to receive the Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Award and to join the remarkable group of scholars who have received this recognition,” said Professor Saad. “The award is especially meaningful to me because of Haub Law’s longstanding leadership in environmental law and its commitment to ambitious scholarship in the field. I am grateful to the Haub Environmental Law Faculty for recognizing my work at a formative stage in my scholarly career, and I very much look forward to visiting in September to share my work and engage with faculty, students, scholars, and others in the broader environmental law community.”

Professor Saad holds a JD from Yale Law School, a doctorate in Geography and the Environment from Oxford University (where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar), and a BS in Environmental Health Science from UNC Chapel Hill.

As the 2026–2027 Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar, Professor Saad will present her scholarship to the Haub Law community as part of the Law School’s annual Future Environmental Law Professors Workshop. The workshop brings together current and aspiring environmental law academics and provides insight and guidance on entering the academic teaching market.

Professor Saad joins a distinguished group of past recipients of the award, which for more than a decade has recognized emerging scholars making important contributions to environmental law and related fields.

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Professor Yiran Zhang, Proskauer Assistant Professor of Employment and Labor Law at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and an Associate Member of the Cornell Law School faculty, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026–2027 Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law for her article Family Caregiving as Work?, forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review.

Zhang's article examines the rapidly growing class of publicly paid family caregivers under Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) programs, who are compensated as employees while remaining embedded in interdependent relationships with the family members for whom they care. The article identifies a “work contradiction” at the heart of current law: classifying family caregivers as employees extends workplace rights, qualifies caregivers for social insurance, and satisfies safety-net work requirements, but treating care payments as wages can simultaneously trigger the loss of means-tested benefits, such as Section 8 housing subsidies, or expose caregivers to income garnishment in bankruptcy. Zhang argues that neither work law nor welfare law alone can govern the realities of family caregiving, and calls for deliberately strengthening a hybrid work/welfare category that protects caregivers’ interests as laborers while sustaining the interdependency at the heart of caregiving relationships.

Professor Zhang's research studies the interaction among family, market, and state through the lens of care, other work, and money. Her current project employs a socio-legal approach to examine care subsidy programs in the United States, and she also writes about gender and the boundaries of work law. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Stanford Law & Policy Review, Law & Social Inquiry, among others. She holds an SJD and an LLM from Harvard Law School and an LLB from Tsinghua University.

Professor Margot Pollans, Haub Law's Associate Dean for Faculty Development, commented: “I’m thrilled the committee selected Professor Zhang for this award. Her article skillfully bridges family law and work law in order to take seriously the hybrid nature of family caregiving work. Focusing in particular on family caregivers who are eligible for payment through Medicaid, she explores the legal and personal consequences of classifying these payments as wages versus as welfare. Her account of the 'work contradiction' reframes a problem regulators and courts have struggled with for years, and it gives us real analytical tools for thinking about how the law should value care work going forward.”

The Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law is presented annually in recognition of outstanding legal scholarship related to gender and the law by a full-time law professor with five or fewer years of teaching experience. Papers are selected through a blind review process conducted by a committee of Haub Law faculty with expertise in gender and law. This year’s judges were Emily Gold Waldman, Jessica Miles, and Bridget Crawford. The award recipient will be invited to present her work to the Haub Law community during the 2026–2027 academic year.

Nominations for the 2027–2028 award are due by July 1, 2027, and should be emailed to Professor Bridget Crawford.