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Feature Story

From Lecture Halls to Tenement Walls

The making of a future advocate
by Alexander Gastman ‘11

My palms were sweaty and my mind raced through the arguments I was about to make. Ms. A’s arraignment on criminal trespassing charges was about to begin. The court officer led my client out of the holding cell with her hands cuffed behind her. She looked up at me when she was placed at the lectern; I met her eyes and then turned to face the judge. No longer a law student who could afford to make mistakes without real world consequences, I was suddenly a lawyer, with an innocent client depending on me to get her out of jail. MORE >>

Faculty Spotlight

A Conversation with Professor Michael B. Mushlin on Prison Reform

Long an advocate both in and out of the classroom for prison reform, Professor Michael B. Mushlin has made it his life’s work to bring our basic Constitutional rights into the “shadow world” of the United States prison system. He has lectured widely on prison reform, evidence, solitary confinement, and rethinking race and prisoners’ rights. At Pace Law School, Professor Mushlin teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, and a Prisoners’ Rights Seminar and has co-created the first-ever civil procedure course taught with a sitting federal judge. He serves as a vice-chairman on the Board of Directors of the Correctional Association of New York and on the Executive Committee of the New York City Bar Association.

We had a chance to sit down with Professor Mushlin to discuss prison reform and oversight. MORE >>

Criminal Justice News: Investigating the Impact of Zero-Tolerance CompStat-based Policing
Professors Adele Bernhard and Chris Fabricant have been named as 2010 Bellows Scholars by the American Association of Law Schools for their proposal to investigate the impact of Zero Tolerance CompStat-based policing strategies on low-income communities of color. The proposal grows out of Professor Fabricant’s Criminal Defense Clinic students’ work representing individuals charged with misdemeanors in the South Bronx.

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The Pace Law School Library disseminates in-depth discussions and interviews on contemporary problems facing the law, the legal profession, and society. Criminal justice podcasts include:

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Learn more about: the Prosecutorial Externship Program, the Barbara C. Salken Criminal Justice Clinic, the Post-Conviction Project, and the Criminal Justice Center.

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SPRING 2011