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Faculty and StaffOctober 30, 2025
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Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor John Bandler pens an op-ed in Reuters about New York's new CLE training requirement— this gets picked up by Westfair Communications.
Lubin Professor Larry Chiagouris speaks with Travel Industry Today about Sandro Botticelli's 15th-century masterpiece “Birth of Venus” becoming a “virtual influencer” in a new Italian tourism campaign. “The more you try to alter something that’s historic, probably the greater the outcry,” said Larry Chiagouris, professor of marketing at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business. “People are going to say, ‘You’re changing the culture. You’re changing who we are, because it’s part of our history.’”
Toomey, a conservation scientist at Pace University’s Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences, tells me why this happens: It’s human psychology.
“Knowledge is formed by our experiences, not just by reading facts in a textbook,” she says. “Scientists believe ‘if only people knew what I know, they’d think differently from how they think now.’ But that’s not how it works. We don’t just need to give people information. We need to start understanding how that information can be brought into a process of change-making.”
Since its creation in 2014, the Pace School of Performing Arts (PPA) has been a leader in producing top talent, with its graduates widely represented in the film, TV, theater, and dance industries.
When the program launched within Pace’s Dyson College of Arts and Sciences nearly two decades ago, it was Manhattan’s first new performing arts school in almost half a century. Today, in keeping with its long tradition of innovation and in recognition of the rapidly evolving industry, PPA is getting its own stand-alone identity: The Sands College of Performing Arts.
There are now four lawsuits pending in New York courts. The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University maintains an online Environmental Right Repository with the principal pleadings, decisions on motions, and eventually all judicial decisions as they arrive. The repository also provides references to analogous rulings in other states that provide rights to the environment in their constitutions, as well as to decisions in other jurisdictions around the world.
Professor Mark Hussey speaks with The Telegraph about a Virginia Woolf book that has been handed a trigger warning by publishers who raised concerns about its past attitudes and language.
“How to Power a City” is a documentary directed by award-winning filmmaker and Pace University professor Melanie LaRosa, was shot in several locations around the U.S. including the Southeast Michigan city, which is located within Detroit’s corporate boundary. The film documents similar resilient, grassroots efforts in Atlantic City, Las Vegas, New York and Puerto Rico.
“Given the alarming decline in biodiversity globally and statewide, New York has a special duty to end this indiscriminate killing of wild animals that masquerades as wildlife conservation.” said Michelle Land, Pace University professor of environmental law and policy, and chief faculty of its Animal Advocacy Clinic. “Ending the senseless slaughter from wildlife killing contests is the priority of our clinic students, who will be pressing Governor Hochul to sign the bill into law and, we hope, personally deliver their 550 signature petition in support of the bill.”
Tribeca Citizen featured Pace University’s Sands College of Performing Arts that will begin its programming this coming academic year.
Professor Bennett Gershman pens an op-ed in Law & Crime about the U.S. Supreme Court ending the use of affirmative action in college admissions.