On September 11, 2025, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University’s Sustainable Business Law Hub held the third annual private environmental governance and sustainable business law scholarly workshop. The half-day lightning workshop, co-sponsored by Vanderbilt Law School’s Private Climate Governance Lab, included an impressive gathering of environmentally focused scholars who spent the day workshopping new scholarship. Josh Galperin, Associate Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Pace Haub Law’s Sustainable Business Law Hub organized this year’s workshop.
“The sustainable business law and private governance workshop tackled new scholarship from nine scholars in the field,” said Professor Galperin, who in addition to developing the workshop, moderated it. “The goal is to bring together scholars to share new research and scholarship, and bounce ideas around to help improve that work. Sustainable business law is key to a healthier environmental future and scholarly workshops like this are essential forums for thoughtful, inspirational, and impactful change to that end.”
Scholars from eight different institutions participated in this year’s workshop, along with Pace Haub Law alumni, faculty, staff, and Sustainable Business Law Hub Student Scholars. Inclusion of current students in the event sets it apart from the traditional scholarly workshop but also injects innovative new ideas that can make significant contributions. “This workshop is exemplary of the type of collaborative effort and thought-sharing that sets Pace Haub Law apart and is necessary to support a healthy environmental future,” said Professor Galperin. “Our Sustainable Business Law Hub, along with workshops like this, does not just focus on theory, but on practice and real-life impact.”
As with years past, the workshop came the day before the 'Profit & Purpose' Sustainable Business Conference, which, Pace Haub Law co-hosts each year with the Westchester County Association (WCA). Business, nonprofit, and government leaders attend the ‘Profit & Purpose’ Conference, which focuses on cutting-edge issues in sustainability, like local and state leadership in the face of federal retrenchment and connection between climate change and healthcare. Numerous sustainable business workshop attendees also attended the Conference, capitalizing on the momentum of sustainability forward thought-sharing.
The first annual private environmental governance and sustainable business law scholarly workshop was held in spring 2023 in partnership with Vanderbilt Law School. Pace Haub Law’s Sustainable Business Law Hub serves as an incubator space, student-training program, research endeavor, and think tank devoted to addressing global sustainability challenges through policy and research projects, relationships with the business community, and capacity building in private environmental governance.
