Pace University News

Under Horace E. Anderson Jr., Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law has increased its enrollment, donations, full-time faculty and partnerships with leading universities worldwide. Anderson, an intellectual property and technology law specialist who joined the faculty in 2004, recently established the Sustainable Business Law Hub, a research incubator devoted to global sustainability. The school now boasts the nation’s top-ranked environmental law program, according to U.S. News & World Report. Anderson also strengthened social justice and community ties through the new Pace Access to Justice Project.

"His rise to stardom (particularly post-NSYNC) ripened from celebrity women like Britney Spears and Janet Jackson and illustrated how gender, misogyny, race and white male privilege operated in the entertainment industry," says Melvin Williams, associate professor of communication and media studies at Pace University.

Someone who reads a false, AI-generated statement, doesn’t confirm it, and widely shares that information does bear responsibility and could be sued under current libel standards, Leslie Garfield Tenzer, a professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, told me.

Law Professor Bennett Gershman speaks about public schools having broad power to limit offensive and controversial speech on their campuses. “Schools can always regulate offensive speech,” Gershman said. “The [US] Supreme Court has made very clear that schools can regulate offensive speech. And if schools deem this speech is offensive, the schools can prohibit it.”

“The standards of civility, kindness, empathy, and tolerance that Carter set for himself never really caught on in American politics,” says Kerriann Stout, a history professor who also teaches constitutional law at Pace University in New York. “Carter’s politics may have been what this country needed,” she says, but “time has demonstrated it is not what it wanted.”

Law Professor Bennett Gershman pens an op-ed in The New York Law Journal about an undercover journalist, posing as a Catholic conservative at the Supreme Court Historical Society, cornering Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, asking them provocative questions, and surreptitiously recorded their remarks without telling them that she was a journalist and that they were being recorded.

Inside Higher Ed features an article showcasing successful effective initiatives in recruiting diverse students to the humanities they highlight Pace University’s Writing for Diversity and Equity in Theater and Media program, which mandates that students’ complete humanities and theater courses, as well as engage with working professionals on a regular basis through master classes and field trips, to build professional development.