Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

Haub Law Professor Emeritus John R. Nolon also appears in The New York Times in coverage of how the economic fortunes of a struggling upstate community became tied to a cannabis company. Professor Nolon discusses the challenge of balancing penalties for regulatory violations with the economic benefits such companies bring, noting that withdrawing financial support risks undermining much-needed local revitalization.

Pace Haub Law Professor Jill I. Gross, an expert in securities arbitration, is featured in Newsday’s coverage of the more than $7 million in FINRA arbitration awards issued against A.G. Morgan Financial Advisors. Speaking about the role of regulators when repeated investor complaints arise, Professor Gross explains: “A number of disputes or complaints can lead the SEC and other regulators to shut down the brokerage or take other disciplinary steps.”

In The Hill, Pace Haub Law Professor Bennett L. Gershman published a detailed commentary on how prosecutorial failures derailed the federal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, drawing on his leading treatise Prosecutorial Misconduct to outline the constitutional and procedural breakdowns that undermined the prosecutions.

Pace Haub Law Professor Gershman also wrote an op-eds for amNewYork: examining whether Mayor Eric Adams could be recharged for bribery and corruption.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University Trial Advocacy Program has once again demonstrated its strength with a top finish by its National Trial League (NTL) team. Competing across seven rounds throughout the fall semester, the team has secured a Top 4 finish and advanced to the spring playoffs. As the reigning NTL champions, this latest success continues the momentum of the Pace Haub Law NTL team.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, in partnership with the North America Committee of the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations (CGA-NA), proudly hosted a special New York Arbitration Week program, titled “Greener Arbitration: Insights from the Next Generation of Legal Scholarship.”

Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman also writes an op-ed in amNewYork warning about President Trump’s escalating use of the death penalty. He traces Trump’s long history with capital punishment — from the Central Park Five ads to a surge of federal executions — and argues that his renewed push represents a dangerous expansion of prosecutorial power and political theater. In Roll Call, Professor Gershman comments on a controversial Senate payout provision, noting that the structure defies typical legal concepts and raises serious concerns about corruption and prosecutorial integrity.

In Gothamist, Haub Law Professor Emeritus Michael Mushlin is credited as a key architect behind a proposal that would require New York judges to spend a day visiting prisons and jails before making detention and sentencing decisions. Mushlin, one of the nation’s leading experts on prisoners’ rights law, convened a committee of judges and practitioners to strengthen the existing, rarely enforced visitation rule. The updated proposal is designed to ensure judges better understand the conditions they are consigning people to when they impose custodial sentences.

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In amNewYork, Pace Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman pens a powerful op-ed examining how President Donald Trump’s towering monuments, incendiary rhetoric, and erosion of democratic norms signal a deeper moral and structural deterioration within American civic life. Professor Gershman writes that this sweeping “uglification” is reshaping the nation’s public landscape and unsettling the democratic foundations that once held firm.