The more than 100 full-time and adjunct professors who comprise the Pace Law School faculty are both scholars and lawyers, with outstanding academic credentials and extensive legal experience. From prior work as attorneys, litigators, regulators, clerks, and counselors, in the corporate, nonprofit, and public sectors, the Pace Law School faculty brings diverse and unique perspectives to the theoretical principles of law.
Staying current with emerging trends, our faculty provides relevant legal scholarship to our students, surrounding community, and the world. In addition to teaching, Pace Law School professors publish articles, papers, and books, frequently lecture at home and abroad, and serve as advisers, board members, and fellows for a range of prestigious organizations. They are also instrumental in attracting other accomplished and influential visiting scholars to the Pace campus.
Submissions from 2016
Paterno v. Laser Spine Institute: Did the New York Court of Appeals' Misapplication of Unjustified Policy Fears Lead to A Miscarriage of Justice and the Creation of Inadequate Precedent for the Proper Use of the Empire State’s Long-Arm Statute?, Jay C. Carlisle, Christine M. Murphy, Kiersten M. Schramek, and Marley Strauss
Don't Be Cruel (Anymore): A Look at the Animal Cruelty Regimes of the United States and Brazil with A Call for A New Animal Welfare Agency, David N. Cassuto
Fossil Fuel Abolition: Legal and Social Issues, Karl S. Coplan
Teaching Substantive Environmental Law and Practice Skills Through Interest Group Role-Playing, Karl S. Coplan
Foreword: The Supreme Court's Estate Planning Jurisprudence, Bridget J. Crawford
Valuation, Values, Norms: Proposals for Estate and Gift Tax Reform, Bridget J. Crawford
It’s Time for the FDA to Define ‘Natural’, Jason J. Czarnezki
The Neo-Liberal Turn in Environmental Regulation, Jason J. Czarnezki
In Memory of Monroe Freedman: The Hardest Question for a Prosecutor, Bennett L. Gershman
The Prosecutor’s Duty of Silence, Bennett L. Gershman
Foreign Assistance Complicity, Alexander K.A. Greenawalt
Recapturing Water for Sustainability Through Redefinitions of Navigability and Ownership, Shelby D. Green
Zoning Neighborhoods for Resilience: Drivers, Tools and Impacts, Shelby D. Green
Arbitration Case Law Update 2016, Jill I. Gross
FINRA Dispute Resolution Task Force Releases Its Final Report, with Support for Mediation and Live Hearings, Jill I. Gross
FINRA Dispute Resolution Task Force Releases Its Final Report, with Support for Mediation and Live Hearings, Jill I. Gross
The Customer's Nonwaivable Right to Choose Arbitration in the Securities Industry, Jill I. Gross
The Historical Basis of Securities Arbitration as an Investor Protection Mechanism, Jill I. Gross
The Egyptian Coup, the United States, and a Call to Strengthen the Rule of Law and Diplomacy Rather Than Military Counter-Terrorism, Thomas McDonnell
Plain Meaning, Precedent, and Metaphysics: Lessons in Statutory Interpretation from Analyzing the Elements of the Clean Water Act Offense, Jeffrey G. Miller
What's Going on in Our Prisons?, Michael B. Mushlin
Memorial: John J. McNeill (1949-2016), Marie Stefanini Newman and Vicky Gannon
Enhancing the Urban Environment Through Green Infrastructure, John R. Nolon
Zoning’s Centennial: A Complete Account of the Evolution of Zoning into a Robust System of Land Use Law—1916-2016 (Part II), John R. Nolon
Zoning’s Centennial: A Complete Account of the Evolution of Zoning into a Robust System of Land Use Law—1916-2016 (Part III), John R. Nolon
Zoning’s Centennial: A Complete Account of the Evolution of Zoning into a Robust System of Land Use Law—1916-2016 (Part I), John R. Nolon
UN Environment Guide for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Laws, Richard L. Ottinger
Drinking Water Protection and Agricultural Exceptionalism, Margot J. Pollans
The Lautenberg Act: Chemical Safety Overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act, Alyssa S. Rosen
Submissions from 2015
Rethinking the Childhood-Adult Divide: Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Emerging Adults, Barbara L. Atwell
Festschrift for Dean Simon, Jay C. Carlisle
Portability, Marital Wealth Transfers, and the Taxable Unit, Bridget J. Crawford
A Primer: Air and Water Environmental Quality Standards in the United States, Jason J. Czarnezki
Creating Order Amidst Food Eco-Label Chaos, Jason J. Czarnezki
New York City Rules! Regulatory Models for Environmental and Public Health, Jason J. Czarnezki
Festschrift for Dean Simon, Leslie Garfield and Audrey Rogers
Ratings Fetishism, Leslie Yalof Garfield
A Dean for All Seasons, Steven H. Goldberg
Building Resilient Communities in the Wake of Climate Change While Keeping Affordable Housing Safe from Sea Changes in Nature and Policy, Shelby D. Green
Paradoxes, Parallels and Fictions: The Case for Landlord Tort Liability Under the Revised Uniform Residential Landlord-Tenant Act, Shelby D. Green
Forensic Evidence and the Court of Appeal for England and Wales, Lissa Griffin
Arbitration Case Law Update 2015, Jill I. Gross
Justice Scalia's Hat Trick and the Supreme Court's Flawed Understanding of Twenty-First Century Arbitration, Jill I. Gross
Is America Becoming A Nation of Ex-Cons?, John A. Humbach
The Constitution and Revenge Porn, John A. Humbach
Environmental Privacy, Katrina Fischer Kuh
Plain Meaning, Precedent, and Metaphysics: Interpreting the “Navigable Waters” Element of the Federal Water Pollution Offense, Jeffrey G. Miller
Plain Meaning, Precedent, and Metaphysics: Interpreting the “Point Source” Element of the Clean Water Act Offense, Jeffrey G. Miller
"I Am Opposed to This Procedure": How Kafka's In the Penal Colony Illuminates the Current Debate About Solitary Confinement and Oversight of American Prisons, Michael B. Mushlin
Written Testimony on Correctional Oversight of the NYS DOCCS, Michael B. Mushlin
Mitigating Climate Change by Zoning for Solar Energy Systems: Embracing Clean Energy Technology in Zoning’s Centennial Year, John R. Nolon
An Environmental Understanding of the Local Land Use System, John R. Nolon
Land Use and Climate Change Bubbles: Resilience, Retreat, and Due Diligence, John R. Nolon
Regulating Farming: Balancing Food Safety and Environmental Protection in A Cooperative Governance Regime, Margot J. Pollans
The Safe Drinking Water / Food Law Nexus, Margot J. Pollans
Death by Bullying: A Comparative Culpability Proposal, Audrey Rogers
More Than A Woman: Insights into Corporate Governance After the French Sex Quota, Darren Rosenblum
A Triumphant Day in Pace Law School’s History: Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s November 12, 2012 Visit to Our Campus, Emily Gold Waldman
Show and Tell?: Students' Personal Lives, Schools, and Parents, Emily Gold Waldman
Submissions from 2014
A National Mineral Policy As an International Investment Law Stratagem: The Case of Tajikistan's Gold Reserves, Nadia B. Ahmad
The International Sugar Trade and Sustainable Development: Curtailing the Sugar Rush, Nadia B. Ahmad
A Restatement of Copyright Law as More Independent and Stable Treatise, Ann Bartow
Conferring Dignity: The Metamorphosis of the Legal Homosexual, Noa Ben-Asher
The New York Court of Appeals Visits (and Then Revisits) the Preclusive Impact of Administrative Findings of Fact in Subsequent State Court Actions, Jay C. Carlisle
Lessons from a Lawyer’s Life, Leslie Carothers
Foreword, David N. Cassuto
Meat Animals, Humane Standards and Other Legal Fictions, David N. Cassuto
Citizen Litigants Citizen Regulators: Four Cases Where Citizen Suits Drove Development of Clean Water Law, Karl S. Coplan
A Critical Research Agenda for Wills, Trusts and Estates, Bridget J. Crawford
Greenwashing and Self-Declared Seafood Ecolabels, Jason J. Czarnezki
Horton the Elephant Interprets the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: How the Federal Courts Sometimes Do and Always Should Understand Them, Donald L. Doernberg
Resoling International Shoe, Donald L. Doernberg
Are Mothers Hazardous to Their Children’s Health?: Law, Culture, and the Framing of Risk, Linda C. Fentiman
Sex, Science, and the Age of Anxiety, Linda C. Fentiman
What Went Wrong: Prudent Management of Endowment Funds and Imprudent Endowment Investing Policies, James J. Fishman
The Paradox of Race-Conscious Labels, Leslie Y. Garfield
The Prosecutor’s Contribution to Wrongful Convictions, Bennett L. Gershman
Threats and Bullying by Prosecutors, Bennett L. Gershman
International Criminal Law for Retributivists, Alexander K.A. Greenawalt
Contesting Disclaimer-of-Reliance Clauses by Efficiency, Free Will, and Conscience: Staving Off Caveat Emptor, Shelby D. Green
No Entry to the Public Lands: Towards A Theory of A Public Trust Servitude for A Way over Abutting Private Land, Shelby D. Green
Arbitration Case Law Update 2014, Jill I. Gross
The Improbable Birth and Conceivable Death of the Securities Arbitration Clinic, Jill I. Gross
The State Response to Climate Change: 50 State Survey, Laura Jensen, Kelly Nishikawa, and Benjamin Lowenthal
Accessing Law: An Empirical Study Exploring the Influence of Legal Research Medium, Katrina Fischer Kuh
Plain Meaning, Precedent, and Metaphysics: Interpreting the “Addition” Element of the Clean Water Act Offense, Jeffrey G. Miller
Plain Meaning, Precedent, and Metaphysics: Interpreting the “Pollutant” Element of the Federal Water Pollution Offense, Jeffrey G. Miller
The Professor and the Judge: Introducing First Year Students to the Law in Context, Michael B. Mushlin and Lisa Margaret Smith
Preface to Protecting the Environment Through Land Use Law: Standing Ground, John R. Nolon
Highest Court in New York Affirms Local Power to Regulate Hydrofracking, John R. Nolon and Jessica A. Bacher
Mitigating the Adverse Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: A Role for Local Zoning?, John R. Nolon and Jessica A. Bacher
Towards Engaged Scholarship, John R. Nolon, Michelle Bryan Mudd, Michael Burger, Kim Diana Connolly, Nestor Davidson, Matthew Festa, Jill I. Gross, Lisa Heinzerling, Keith Hirokawa, Tim Iglesias, Patrick C. McGinley, Sean Nolon, Uma Outka, Jessica Owley, Kalyani Robbins, Jonathan Rosenbloom, and Christopher Serkin
Innovative Financing for Renewable Energy, Richard L. Ottinger and John Bowie
Options for Adaption to Climate Change, Richard L. Ottinger, Pianpian Wang, and Kristin M. Motel
Due Process Disaggregation, Jason Parkin
Setting the Table for Urban Agriculture, Margot J. Pollans
Fundamental Principles of Law for the Anthropocene?, Nicholas A. Robinson
In Memoriam: David Sive (1922-2014) and Joseph Sax (1936-2014), Nicholas A. Robinson
Keynote: Sustaining Society in the Anthropocene Epoch, Nicholas A. Robinson