Pace | Haub Environmental Law Professor Katrina Fischer Kuh co-authored a chapter in a book released today from MIT Press, Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation, edited by David Orr.
The chapter, titled Can the Constitution Save the Planet?, identifies how and why the constitutional status quo is failing to meet the climate moment. Professor Kuh co-wrote the chapter with colleague James May, Distinguished Professor of Law and Founder of the Global Environmental Rights Institute at Widener University Delaware School of Law. Professor May holds an LLM from and has previously served as a Visiting Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.
Professor Yiran Zhang, Proskauer Assistant Professor of Employment and Labor Law at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and an Associate Member of the Cornell Law School faculty, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026–2027 Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law for her article Family Caregiving as Work?, forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review.
Over the course of three days, the Environmental Law Collaborative (ELC) convened in Briarcliff Manor, New York to discuss “Blue Sky Thinking in a Red Sky World.” The ELC comprises a rotating group of law professors who assemble every other year to think, discuss, and write on an important and intriguing theme in environmental law. This year, the group focused on how to think optimistically and proactively about environmental protection when so much is going so quickly in the opposite direction.
In her article, “Legal Professional Privilege in a Digital World: A Comparative Analysis,” published in Volume 15 of the British Journal of American Legal Studies(Spring 2025), Pace Haub Law Professor Lissa Griffin and co-author Dan Jasinski explore the evolving challenges to legal professional privilege in an increasingly digitized criminal justice system.