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The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce that Michael Hamersky has been appointed to serve as the Executive Director of the Pace Energy and Climate Center. In addition to leading the Center, he will teach Natural Resources Law at the Law School. Over nearly four decades, the Pace Energy and Climate Center has established itself as a national leader working at the intersection of energy and the environment.

Pace President Marvin Krislov opened this year’s Digital Universities US conference in Salt Lake City alongside Inside Higher Ed editor-in-chief Sara Custer, exploring how uncertainty in higher education could become a driver for positive change.

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor Bennett Gershman provides expert legal commentary across several outlets this week. For ABC News, he explains why President Trump cannot pardon himself for a state conviction in the ongoing hush money case appeal.

President Trump's response to the protests in Los Angeles by federalizing California's National Guard is unlawful grandstanding and throwing kerosene on a small fire that, given his unconstitutional intrusion into state sovereignty and given the toxicity of the political battle between Trump and California state authorities, may erupt into a conflagration. Bennett Gershman," a professor of law at Pace University, told Newsweek.

Meet Azeem Azhar: a 2021 graduate of the Bachelor of Arts in Biological Psychology, Azeem continued into the Master of Science Physician Assistant Program – Pleasantville program, which he aims to have completed in December 2025. We connected with him to learn more about his leadership opportunities within the PA program!