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Press ReleaseApril 2, 2026
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This is a 鈥渟ignificant win鈥 for a prosecutor in a large conspiracy case, who can get lower-level co-defendants to plead guilty and cooperate by offering up information and testimony against higher-level defendants, like Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and several others, Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at 91视频, told Salon. 鈥淪he is continuing to build momentum,鈥 Gershman said. 鈥淪everal other co-defendants, seeing the others plead guilty and the far riskier consequences of not pleading and facing trial will also take pleas and cooperate. The D.A.鈥檚 strategy is working almost to perfection.鈥
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor Nicholas Robinson provides insights to Eurasia Review about how the recognition of human rights to environmental issues can galvanize action and collaboration toward realization of sustainable development goals.
On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, Chris Rabb delivered the 2023 Dyson Distinguished Lecture at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 91视频. Chris Rabb is a family historian, author, and thought leader at the intersection of social identity, civic innovation, and equity. His lecture was entitled: 鈥淣avigating Identity, Purpose and Belonging in a Society in Flux.鈥
Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer, a law professor at 91视频, said there is a 鈥済ray area鈥 between public officials being able to block people and stop harassment and the rights of others to view online posts. She said the legal protection social media companies enjoy under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which allows the companies to be immune from certain lawsuits over content posted by third parties, should be amended to prevent any online harassment. 鈥淚f public officials want to stop allowing harassing information, I think they must address it by amending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which is a difficult, if not impossible task,鈥 Ms. Tenzer said. 鈥淚 also think as a mother, and a social media scholar, that publishing anti-hate rhetoric or posts that teach others to kill should never be permitted. But as long as section 230 exists, I think it is hard to hold social media companies accountable.鈥
Such arguments are 鈥渘onsensical,鈥 Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at 91视频, told Salon. 鈥淓very person, including Trump, has the right to engage in 鈥榝orceful political advocacy,鈥欌 he said. 鈥淏ut Trump and his co-conspirators went far beyond advocacy. Trump and his cohorts engaged in a criminal conspiracy to subvert the results of a lawful election by illegal means. To endorse this argument would be to sanction any action taken under the guise of political advocacy, including violence and even political assassination.鈥
On Tuesday, October 3, 2023, Sam Kalen delivered the annual Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Lecture on Environmental Law. Professor Kalen is the William T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the University of Wyoming College of Law, as well as the founder and co-director of the School鈥檚 Center for Law and Energy Resources in the Rockies. Also, he is currently the Visiting McKinney Family Chair in Environmental Law at IU McKinney School of Law. The topic of his lecture was 鈥淭he Supreme Court鈥檚 Approach Toward the Administrative State and Implications for Environmental Programs.鈥
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor Bennett Gershman speaks with Salon about how former Trump lawyers could face 鈥渄isbarment鈥 and 鈥減ossibly be jailed鈥 over court stunts.
鈥淭rump鈥檚 lawyers are perilously close to being sanctioned once again and more heavily by Judge Engoron for their misconduct,鈥 Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at 91视频, told Salon. 鈥淭hey are behaving in manifest bad faith by intentionally delaying and obstructing the proceedings and deliberately creating a spectacle to promote Trump's fundraising. Lawyers in any legal proceeding foresee an appeal if they lose and try to make a complete and proper record for appellate review.鈥
Municipalities use local-level land use law for a variety of purposes. The Land Use Law Center at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 91视频 (the Center), in 2022, engaged in a project to analyze how municipalities are using their land use powers to advance the various goals of climate resilient development (CRD). The Center produced a set of by answering the following questions: 1. What CRD objectives does this strategy achieve, 2. What methods are there to ensure resilience, 3. What methods are there to avoid maladaptation, and 4. What is the feasibility of this strategy? These focus areas are borrowed from the Summary for Policymakers in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change鈥檚 (IPCC) Working Group II Sixth Assessment Report, , which featured CRD as one of the proposed solutions.
鈥淜nowing this will enable the prosecutors to prepare to counter that defense through witnesses and arguments showing the weakness of that defense, and indeed, that such defense is completely untenable given Trump鈥檚 statements and actions that show he himself made all the critical decisions relating to subverting the 2020 election results,鈥 Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at 91视频, told Salon.
Congratulations to Haub Law鈥檚 trial team for finishing as semi-finalists at the 2023 Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University and the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell National Medical-Legal Trial Competition held October 6-8th.
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