The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce that Professors Carlton Waterhouse, James Salzman, and Alyse Bertenthal will join the Law School as Haub Visiting Scholars during the 2026–2027 academic year. The distinguished scholars bring expertise spanning environmental justice, climate law and policy, environmental criminal enforcement, natural resources, and other critical areas of environmental law, and will engage with the Haub Law community through guest lectures, faculty workshops, scholarly collaboration, and special programs.
The Haub Visiting Scholars Program brings leading environmental scholars and practitioners to Haub Law for residencies designed around their expertise and the work of the Law School’s nationally recognized Environmental Law Program. Visiting Scholars engage with faculty and students through teaching, research, public programs, and other opportunities for intellectual exchange. Funding for the Haub Visiting Scholars Program was made possible by a gift from the Haub family recognizing the essential role of environmental science, informatics, technology, and allied fields in the development of environmental policy and law.
“Carlton Waterhouse, Jim Salzman, and Alyse Bertenthal are exceptional scholars whose work reflects the breadth and continued evolution of environmental law,” said Professor Josh Galperin, Associate Dean of the Environmental Law Program at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law and Faculty Director of the Sustainable Business Law Hub. “The Haub Visiting Scholars Program creates meaningful opportunities for our students and faculty to engage directly with leaders in the field, while providing our visiting scholars with a one-of-a-kind environmental law community in which to exchange ideas, develop scholarship, and explore emerging legal challenges. We look forward to the perspectives and energy that each of them will bring to Haub Law.”
Professor Carlton Waterhouse will join Haub Law as a Haub Visiting Scholar in Fall 2026. A Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law, Professor Waterhouse is a nationally and internationally recognized scholar whose work spans environmental law and justice, climate policy, reparations, and redress for historic injustices. His career has combined scholarship, teaching, public service, and advocacy, with a particular focus on addressing environmental and social inequities through law and policy.
During his time at the Law School, Professor Waterhouse will participate in Haub Law’s Future Environmental Law Professors Workshop on September 18, and on September 23, he will present a faculty workshop on climate reparations in light of the International Court of Justice’s climate advisory opinion. He will also present to the Environmental Law Society on Howard University School of Law Environmental and Climate Justice Center’s Fifty State Lead Scorecard Project, a comprehensive national assessment of state-level policies on lead poisoning prevention. Professor Waterhouse will also guest lecture in classes and participate in New York City Climate Week events.
“Professor Waterhouse’s work reflects the kind of innovative and justice-centered environmental scholarship that is essential to confronting today’s most pressing environmental challenges,” said Achinthi Vithanage, Executive Director of the Environmental Law Program and Professor of Law for Designated Service in Environmental Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law. “His visit will give our students and faculty an important opportunity to engage with his work at the intersection of environmental justice, climate change, and reparations, while bringing his perspective to the broader conversations taking place during Climate Week in New York City.”
As previously announced, Professor James Salzman will join Haub Law as a Haub Visiting Scholar for a month-long residency in Fall 2026. Professor Salzman is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law with a joint appointment between U.C. Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and UCLA School of Law. He is a leading scholar of environmental law whose wide-ranging scholarship has addressed drinking water, environmental policy design, ecosystem services, and other areas of environmental law and policy.
During his residency, Professor Salzman will deliver the Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law and participate in “Back to the Future: Earth Law and the Next 50 Years of Environmental Law,” part of Haub Law’s 50th anniversary programming. The October 28 program will examine emerging legal developments related to Earth law, including ecocide, the Rights of Nature, constitutional environmental rights, and Indigenous laws. Professor Salzman will also guest lecture in classes, including Professor Galperin’s Environmental Skills and Practice course, and engage with students and faculty.
“Professor Salzman has long been an influential voice in environmental law, and we are delighted to welcome him as a Visiting Scholar,” said Katrina Fischer Kuh, Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law. “His scholarship and perspective will add an important dimension to our 50th anniversary conversations about the evolution and future of environmental law, while creating meaningful opportunities for engagement with our students and faculty throughout his time here.”
Professor Alyse Bertenthal will join Haub Law as a Haub Visiting Scholar in Spring 2027. An Associate Professor of Law at Wake Forest University School of Law, Professor Bertenthal’s research and teaching focus on the intersections of environmental law, criminal law and procedure, and environmental justice. Drawing on interdisciplinary training in law and social science, her current research examines conservation law enforcement and access to environmental justice through courts and regulatory systems.
During her time at Haub Law, Professor Bertenthal will guest lecture in classes, participate in faculty colloquia, collaborate with Haub Law students and faculty on scholarly work, including new programs related to environmental criminal enforcement, and engage with the Environmental Law Society through a focused lecture.
“Professor Bertenthal’s interdisciplinary scholarship creates an important bridge between environmental law and the criminal legal system, raising critical questions about enforcement, justice, and how law operates in practice,” said Kate Skolnick, Assistant Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law. “Her visit will offer our students and faculty a valuable opportunity to explore these intersections and engage with her innovative scholarship.”
The Haub Visiting Scholars Program is part of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law’s longstanding commitment to advancing environmental legal education, scholarship, and policy. Through residencies tailored to each scholar’s expertise, the program brings leading voices in environmental law and related fields into engagement with Haub Law students, faculty, and the broader environmental law community.
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce that it has selected Professor Aisha Saad to receive the 2026–2027 Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Award.
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.