Pace University News

Mushlin is a professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Conditions at the notorious Rikers Island jail complex have captured the headlines in recent days. Deaths and degradation are the order of the day there. A federal judge has intervened, ordering the city to put in place measures essential to save lives.

Professor Michael Mushlin's Letter to the Editor regarding the chaotic conditions at Rikers Island was published in The New York Times.

Professor Bennett Gershman explains why respect for law is a basic tenet of democracy and the integrity of our judicial systemin an article for the New York Law Journal.

“Pace University’s Dr. Darrin Porcher tells Maria Bartiromo the Manhattan District Attorney's directive not to ask for bail in many nonviolent cases is "purely political."

Elisabeth Haub Law Lauren Bachtel co-authored an empirical analysis, noting there is much work to be done to achieve gender equity in the environmental bar.

Water and soil pollution is also fairly prevalent in industrial farming areas. 10 billion animals produce an awful lot of manure — approximately 1 million tons or more, according to Pace University. That waste doesn’t just contain traces of salt and heavy metals which can accumulate in water and affect the food chain.

If the main responsibilities of correctional facilities are care, custody, and control, the New York City jail complex on Rikers Island can’t currently fulfill them. Staffing deficits have worsened many problems, including rising violence, that Rikers had already been struggling to curtail. Without enough staffing, the safety of everyone who enters Rikers’s gates—inmates and officers alike—is in jeopardy.

Professor Emeritus Jay Carlisle comments on Rudy Giuliani's suspension from the practice of law in an article for Westchester Lawyer.

New Show at Pace Art Gallery

The Pace University Art Gallery opened an exhibit called “Substance” running through Oct. 30 featuring abstract artists Diego Anaya, Liz Atz, Linda Ekstrom and Alberto Lule.

Bridget J. Crawford: I think we should start first by defining what we mean by feminism. Tony and I, and many others, take a broad approach to what that term means. Obviously, feminism as we understand it in the 21st century has its roots in the 19th-century women's rights movement, carried over into the 1970s. It's a movement with political origins that specifically focused on advancing women's equality.