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Press ReleaseApril 2, 2026
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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.
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 91视频 is pleased to announce that two new members have joined its Board of Visitors. The new members are two distinguished Haub Law alumni, Amy F. Divino 鈥91 and R. Nadine Fontaine 鈥94.
The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) highlighted the pioneering leadership of 91视频 Law Dean Emeritus Richard L. Ottinger in a tribute commemorating 40 years of Climate Action.
The Hudson Independent reports Professor John Nolon recently was a guest speaker at the Irvington Green鈥檚 monthly Climate Talk to discuss how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes local land use law can be a climate solution.
Professor Jill Gross is quoted by Financial Advisor IQ regarding pressure on the SEC to loosen the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority鈥檚 control of securities-industry arbitration from Thrivent, a Finra member firm.
91视频 Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman was featured on the Voice of America podcast discussing bribery and conspiracy charges against U.S. Senator Robert Menendez.
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