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Press ReleaseOctober 16, 2024
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Watching Major League Baseball celebrate Jackie Robinson day on April 15 reminded me of when I once met him along with Roy Echols, a community organizer in Yonkers, NY.
On Friday, April 5, 2024, Pace Law Review (PLR) presented its triennial Symposium and Haub Law’s annual Dyson Lecture, attracting over 100 attendees. The theme of the symposium was Bioethics After Dobbs. The Dyson Lecture, entitled The Alabama Embryo Decision in Ethics, Law and Politics, was delivered by Professor I. Glenn Cohen, the James A. Atwood & Leslie Williams Professor of Law and Deputy Dean of Harvard Law School.
The skepticism the attorney general's filing outlines appears to demonstrate her distrust for Trump given the nature of the case she brought against him and its findings, Bennett Gershman, a Pace University law professor and former New York prosecutor, told Salon. "After litigating and winning cases involving Trump’s dishonest business practices, including phony charities and a phony college scam, and then winning a $465 [million] lawsuit in which Trump was found [liable] of massive fraud, AG James doesn’t trust anything Trump does or says," Gershman said. "It’s really that simple."
Law Professor Philip G. Cohen writes a piece in the American Bar Association about blocked income and reviewed the decision in 3M Company & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner.
Professor Gershman speaks with CBS News about how more than 500 New Yorkers to be considered as jurors in Trump's "hush money" trial.
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University hosted a Climate Constitutionalism Conference on Pace University’s New York City Campus on Friday, March 29, 2024. The timely conference brought together constitutional law experts, climate change activists, environmental law professors, and noteworthy legal professionals from around the country to examine the crucial role of federal and state constitutions in responding to the climate crisis.
Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law is once again ranked #1 in the country for Environmental Law by the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings, released today. Haub Law was also ranked #13 in the nation for its trial advocacy program, placing it impressively among the top 10% of schools nationwide.
Bennett Gershman, a former prosecutor who is a professor at Pace University Law School studying prosecutorial misconduct, said attorney-client privilege barred Hoovler from disclosing his conversations with the former client.
In Georgia, for example, a 2019 "fetal heartbeat" law, which essentially banned most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy or when prenatal cardiac activity is detected, allowed families to claim an embryo as a dependent on state tax filings. But elsewhere, state tax codes rely on the federal definition of a dependent, which requires a live birth, according to Bridget Crawford, a tax law professor at Pace Law School.
On Monday, May 20, the Class of 2024 will celebrate with some amazing guests who will impart their wisdom to the departing graduates. Among the honorees are a Broadway powerhouse, a family who turned a heartbreaking loss into hope for children, a renowned judge, the former president of one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, and a physician leading the way in AI-powered medicine.
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