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Westchester Magazine featured Haub Law Dean Horace Anderson in "Meet the "Leaders Who Are Changing Westchester
Westchester Magazine featured Haub Law Dean Horace Anderson in "Meet the "Leaders Who Are Changing Westchester
– The Legal Philosopher –
Horace Anderson Jr.
Dean, Elizabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University
Horace Anderson Jr. is used to defying expectations. The son of Jamaican immigrants, Anderson attended college at the University of Pennsylvania before leaving a successful legal career to ascend the ranks at Pace University, where he now serves as dean of the Elizabeth Haub School of Law. Among several other honors, Anderson currently serves on a Westchester task force, as well as an ad-hoc committee in Jersey City that reviews policies and procedures related to police enforcement and discrimination. At Pace, Anderson is firmly focused on providing students with futures they might never have believed possible.
“I believe Pace plays a special role in the legal-education landscape and that we are bringing people to a new level in terms of their socioeconomic stations and professional opportunities,” notes Anderson. “That is what I think the Haub School of Law is about: helping to bring along a new and different generation of lawyers.” Apparently, this philosophy is paying off, as it was under Anderson’s leadership that U.S. News & World Report recognized Pace as having the number-one environmental-law program in America for the first time.
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, Anderson reassessed the importance of his station, which he has held since December 2019 (although he has taught at Pace since 2004): “It jolted me into thinking about ways not to just sit on our laurels and be proud of what we have done in the past or are doing today, but what we can do in the future,” shares Anderson. “We might be doing new things, but we are still serving the same philosophy: using the law to make the world better, to make people’s lives better, and to pursue justice.”
