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Criminal Justice Center

 

The Pace Criminal Justice Center generates educational opportunities for Pace Law students and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars, policymakers and practitioners in and outside the Pace community. The Pace Criminal Justice Center provides an environment that supports and encourages creative research, teaching, and discussion concerning the theory and practice of Criminal Law through symposia, colloquia and conferences.  The Center will provide a forum in which community members can become involved in criminal justice discussions, and will make legal resources available for those interested in advancing criminal law reforms and promoting the fair and ethical prosecution of criminal defendants.

 

Faculty News
Prof. Michael Mushlin will be an expert panelist on: "Moving Forward:  Prison Reform in an Era of Mass Incarceration and Fiscal Crisis," September 12-13, 2011, University at Buffalo Law School, The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, part of the upcoming conference: "40 Years After the Attica Uprising: Looking Back, Moving Forward."

Prof. Bennett Gershman blogs in the Huffington Post: Was Casey Anthony's Jury Misled (By the Prosecutors)?

Prof. Randolph McLaughlin publishes op-ed on the role of the media in the DSK, Casey Anthony cases.

Alumni News
Meredith Aherne '06 has accepted a position, effective Sept. 1, in juvenile justice with the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Massachusetts. The Committee, a 15-member body appointed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, oversees the provision of legal representation to indigent persons in criminal and civil court cases and administrative proceedings in which there is a right to counsel. While at Pace Law School, Meredith participated in the Post-Conviction Project and later received an LLM from Columbia Law School.

 
Past Criminal Justice Events at Pace Law School
 

Stay Tuned for Upcoming Lecture Series, Symposia and other Criminal Justice Events!