Adjunct Professor Elyse Diamond joined Haub Law in 2001 and has served in a variety of roles at the Law School. From 2025 to 2024, Professor Diamond served as the Director of the Public Interest Law Center (PILC), while also supporting the Environmental Law Program as the law school’s Environmental Law Program Career Specialist. She has been instrumental in leading the law school’s Access to Justice Project, including helping to launch the Legal Hand Call-In Center serving Westchester operated by the Elisabeth Haub School of Law.
Professor Diamond's teaching primarily focuses on professional skills, legal writing, and access to justice-oriented courses. She currently co-teaches the Access to Justice Lab, an interdisciplinary course in which law and computer science students follow a user-centered design process to design a technology tool prototype to address a real-world access to justice gap. She also teaches the Access to Justice Seminar as well as the required intensive first-year Legal Skills I and II courses. Past courses have included Topics in Legal Theory: Second Circuit, Pre-Trial Civil Litigation Simulation, Advanced Appellate Advocacy, and Criminal Law and Legal Writing and Analysis.
In her previous role as Director of PILC, Professor Diamond set the career and professional development strategy for the Law School and advised students interested in public service, to assist them in identifying and obtaining internships and post-graduate positions and building successful careers, in legal not-for-profit public interest advocacy and policy organizations, in federal, state and local government, and in prosecuting and defender offices. She served as the primary federal and state judicial clerkship advisor and collaborated closely with all faculty and staff in Haub Law’s criminal justice, environmental law, and public interest programs. She also provided oversight to the PILSO/PILC Summer Public Interest Fellowship Program and the Pro Bono Justice Program.
Professor Diamond has created numerous specialized career guides, regularly moderates and serves as a panelist on public service professional development programs, writes and presents on public service and environmental career and professional development issues, and has served on local and national committees and workgroups for AALS, NALP, and the New York State Commission on Access to Justice, among other professional development organizations and groups. She is a current Hudson Valley Justice Center Board Member, was an Equal Justice Works, National Advisory Committee Member, 2021-2023, and developed law school competency rubrics and assessment tools for professional communication skills for the Halloren Center for Ethics and Professionalism, St. Thomas School of Law.
Professor Diamond received her JD, cum laude, from Fordham Law School, where she was a member of the Fordham Law Review. Prior to joining Haub Law, she spent three years as a full-time Legal Practice Skills faculty member at Suffolk Law School in Boston. She started her legal career as a litigation associate at national law firms.
The Public Interest Law Center’s Access to Justice Project at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University presents the 2nd Annual Pace Access to Justice Workshop: Voting, Democracy, and the Law on March 29 at 12:15 p.m.—1:45 p.m. The Pace Access to Justice Workshop will bring together leading voting rights lawyers, advocates, and the Haub Law community to discuss the important issues of voting access, elections, and democracy.
Haub Law Professor Elyse Diamond was featured speaking about the opening of the Legal Hand Call-In Center.
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University has partnered with Legal Hand, Inc., a New York State not-for-profit corporation, to launch the Legal Hand Call-In Center serving Westchester County. The virtual center is staffed and operated by Haub Law, and is scheduled to open for visitors this month. “Through our partnership with Legal Hand, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law will serve an important role as a resource for the community, while providing our students with an invaluable opportunity to understand and address access to justice issues,” said Horace E. Anderson, Dean of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law. “The Center’s goals are to empower both Volunteers and visitors to understand and navigate issues and self-help resources, and to help visitors resolve issues before they turn into legal action.”