Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman authors an op-ed in amNewYork, analyzing why Luigi Mangione's defense team abandoned its "extreme emotional disturbance" defense.

Pace University law professor Bennett Gershman described the ruling as "a huge enlargement of the border authorities' ability to stop lawful immigrants from coming into the country. "He said the decision grants officials "huge power to stop them, to question them, to detain them," warning that border officers now possess extremely broad discretion when evaluating returning permanent residents. Gershman added that lawful permanent residents traveling abroad "really have to be wary now of what their rights are," because they may face heightened questioning, detention, or removal proceedings upon return.

Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman authors an op-ed in amNewYork, examining President Donald Trump's efforts to reshape Washington, D.C.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce the appointments of Professor Margot J. Pollans as Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Professor Josh Galperin as Associate Dean of the Environmental Law Program, further strengthening the Law School's academic leadership.

Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman pens an op-ed in the New York Law Journal analyzing a recent Supreme Court ruling on racial discrimination in jury selection and its implications for fairness in the criminal justice system.

Haub Law Professor Emeritus Michael Mushlin is widely featured this week following a landmark criminal justice reform that will make New York the first state in the nation to require judges serving in criminal and family courts to conduct annual visits to prisons and jails beginning in 2028. Featured in amNewYork, The City Reporter, and La Voce di New York, Mushlin helped lead the years-long study and advocacy for the initiative, which is designed to give judges firsthand insight into conditions of incarceration and promote more informed, transparent, and humane decision-making.

Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman is in the spotlight in multiple outlets this week. In Newsweek, he discusses a U.S. Supreme Court case that could reshape immigration detention practices nationwide, examining the constitutional limits of prolonged detention without a bond hearing.

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Judge Malaika N. Scott-McLaughlin ’09, a Civil Court Judge for the City of New York, was no stranger to the legal world growing up. As the daughter of Professor Randolph McLaughlin, a renowned civil rights attorney and longtime member of the faculty at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, she spent a lot of time observing him in the classroom teaching and in practice advocating.

Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman pens an op-ed in amNewYork criticizing Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s decision not to advance New York’s Wrongful Convictions Act. Professor Gershman writes that the legislation would have expanded opportunities for wrongfully convicted individuals to challenge their convictions, access legal representation, and present new evidence of innocence. He contends that blocking the bill denies a critical pathway to justice for those seeking to overturn wrongful convictions.