Pace University News

Haub Law Professor Bridget J. Crawford in Market Watch explains what New York’s $250 million civil suit against Donald Trump means – and the interview gets picked up at newspapers across the country.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University has announced that the 2022 Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy will be given to Paulo de Bessa Antunes, a professor of environmental law at Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, and head of the Environmental Practice of Campos Mello Advogados (Brazil). Bessa is being recognized for his tireless advocacy in support of laws protecting the environment in Brazil, including filing several successful lawsuits over the three decades he worked in the Federal Public Prosecution Service. 

"This is an example of somebody thinking above the law and they can get away with anything they want to because of who they are and the status that they hold in society," says Bennett Gershman, law professor at Pace University.

As I talk to students around our campuses—on new student move-in days, as part of undergraduate convocations, even in the law school seminar I’m teaching this semester—what I hear consistently is that students are ready to move on.

Haub Law Professor David Cassuto writes in Ms. Magazine about why women have fewer rights these day.

The Pace University Master of Public Administration (MPA) Program has received accreditation from the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA), the recognized accreditor of master’s degree programs in those fields. Earning the honor for the first time, the Pace MPA program is accredited for seven years, NASPAA’s maximum accreditation length. “The NASPAA accreditation is a culmination of the efforts and dedication of our faculty and staff who are committed to advance the quality of our MPA program,” said MPA Director and Associate Professor Gina Scutelnicu-Todoran, PhD. “It is a testament to Pace’s MPA program’s substantial conformity with the highest academic and professional standards in the discipline, enabling us to meet our mission of serving students in the New York City metropolitan area, the state of New York, the US and internationally.”

The newly named Food and Farm Business Law Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in White Plains has announced that it will expand its legal services with $225,000 in funding included for the clinic in the New York state budget. The funding will support a program coordinator who will provide sustaining support for the clinic and work with clients from across New York state, including small farm businesses, artisan food manufacturers, craft food and beverage entrepreneurs and related nonprofit organizations, while also emphasizing its focus on providing direct transactional business law experience to law students.

Renowned law expert Bennett Gershman told The U.S. Sun this is part of the pre-trial chess match "that's part of basic trial fairness." "This is a game," said Gershman, a longtime professor at New York's Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. "Prosecutors are known to hold evidence favorable to the defense until the last minute. Fair play requires that this is disclosed as soon as the prosecutors know about it.