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Message from the Dean
DEAN OF HAUB LAW
Horace E. Anderson Jr.
ASSISTANT DEAN FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRSS
Rachael M. Silva
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Jessica Dubuss ’09
MANAGING EDITOR & WRITER
Jessica Dubuss ’09
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Rex Bossert Renee Brown-Cheng Norman Hall Gabriella Mickel Mattison Stewart
DESIGN
Carling Design
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jörg Meyer Photography Dmitriy Kalinin Studio Don Hamerman Photography Liflander Photography Stockton Photo
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HAUB LAW
Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
ALUMNI MAGAZINE • SUMMER 2022
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OF NOTE
Environmental Law Program Ranked #1 (Again)! 4 Haub Law Alumni Help Secure Land Use
Entitlements for Frito-Lay 10 Haub Law Trial Advocacy Program 14 Launching the Sustainable Business Law Hub 22 Green Amendments for the Generations 26 Expansion of Haub Law’s Health Certificate Program 30 The Philip Foglia Summer Legal Internship 34
HAUB HEADLINES
• Artist-in-Residence Geoffrey Stein 7 • Two Global Advocates Honored by Haub Law 9 • Food and Beverage Law Clinic Gets a Boost 12 • Yankwitt LLP Establishes Scholarship 17 • GCELS Plays Integral Role at IUCN WCC 19 • Emerging Scholar Award in Gender & Law 25 • Alumnus Anthony J. Enea Establishes Scholarship 25 • A Change-Making Collaboration 29 • NYSBA Honors PWJC with 2021 Legal Aid Awards 33 • The Beth S. Nelson Memorial Scholarship 33 • Five Join Haub Law’s BOV 35
STUDENT & RECENT GRADUATE PROFILES
• From Siblings to Classmates • John Notoris • Decnis Pimentel • ‘Kye’ Krittika Shah • Mattison Stewart • Rhea Mallett, Esq. 6 8 13 16 18 20
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FEATURE
Haub Law Launches Far-Reaching Access to Justice Project 36
EVENTS
Commencement
FACULTY
Faculty Highlights Recent Haub Law Faculty Publications Book Feature: Menstruation Matters Selected Faculty Book Publications DigitalCommons@Pace Article Excerpt: Law Faculty Experiences
Teaching During the Pandemic
FACULTY PROFILES
• Professor Josh Galperin • Professor Randolph McLaughlin
ALUMNI
Class Notes In Memoriam Letter from the Alumni Board President
ALUMNI PROFILES
• Sara S. Price ’08 • Chioma Deere ’06 • Umair Saleem LLM ’21 • Chris Rizzo ’01 • Kevin Sylvester ’14 • John Lettera ’99 • Susan Brown Galvão ’93 • Sheryl Sanford ’01
MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
Dear Haub Law Alumni,
We wrapped up the 2021-2022 academic year on a high note with the University’s first in-person graduation ceremony in three years. US Congresswoman Grace Meng delivered the commencement address to our law graduates, and she also received an honorary doctorate. This year also marked the first year that Pace University held a combined ceremony for graduates of its campuses in New York City, Pleasantville, and White Plains , with the ceremony held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens. Notably, the graduation ceremony recognized not only the class of 2022, but also the classes of 2021 and 2020, who were not able to have a traditional celebration due to pandemic-related restrictions.
Over the course of the last year, our Pace community once again remained resilient and responsive as we transitioned from two years of law school learning in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic to having many of those restrictions eased. Our hallways were once again filled with students, faculty, and staff, and our campus came alive with many events. As you will see in the pages of this magazine, the Haub Law community was able to return to many of its traditions with the in-person celebration of our annual Law Leadership awards dinner, the awarding of the Robert S. Tucker Prize, and more. Though we have had to evolve to a new norm on more than one occasion, the Law School community continues to remain determined and flexible in doing so, all the while launching new programs and initiatives along the way.
This year, we officially launched the Pace Access to Justice Project (Pace A2J), which is the focus of our feature story in this year’s magazine. Pace A2J is housed and coordinated within Haub Law’s Public Interest Law Center and is serving as a hub for community collaborations, programs, scholarship, policy initiatives, and hands-on innovative academic and non-credit bearing experiential law student and alumni opportunities. Through Pace A2J, our students will be actively engaged in learning about and contributing to real-world efforts to address the access to justice gap.
Our Environmental Law Program was once again ranked #1 in the country by U.S. News & World Report. This is the second year in a row, and the third time in four years, that Haub Law has received the number one ranking for Environmental Law, marking the latest major success for the school’s Environmental Law Program. Our environmental law program is consistently at the forefront of developing innovative solutions to today’s and tomorrow’s environmental concerns. You can read about our latest venture, The Sustainable Business Law Hub inside these pages. The Hub will promote a healthier climate future by training lawyers in sustainable business practices. The Hub serves as an incubator space, a research endeavor, and think tank devoted to addressing local and global sustainability challenges through policy and research projects, relationships with the business community, and capacity building in private environmental governance. At Haub Law, we do more than teach in the classroom, we want our graduates to employ the tools and deploy their learning to achieve real world impact—the Hub program is a prime opportunity for Haub Law to meaningfully contribute to the enhancement of good corporate citizenship.
Our trial advocacy program also had another stellar year. Led by Lou Fasulo, Director of Advocacy, Moot Court and Client Counseling Programs, Haub Law’s trial advocacy program was once again ranked in the top 15% of law schools, coming in at #26 according to U.S. News & World Report. This past year, in addition to regularly placing at or near the top in competitions, Haub Law hosted its first Advocate in Residence, Gillian More, a lifelong prosecutor with a worldwide reputation in advocacy, and the Haub Law Advocacy Board launched The Advocate’s Advantage, the official blog of the Haub Law Advocacy Program. We are eager to see what new heights the program soars to this upcoming fall.
Within the pages of this magazine, you will learn about additional highlights of our 2021-2022. We conferred the Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy on Ugandan climate justice advocate Vanessa Nakate and Professor Wang Xi, an environmental law scholar and advocate with Kunming University of Science and Technology in China. Several new scholarships were established by generous alumni and supporters of Haub Law. Our Advanced Certificate in Health Law and Policy was expanded to accommodate the increasing demand for legal education in the health care sector. Five distinguished alumni joined our Board of Visitors. We held several annual law school lectures with prestigious speakers on timely topics. Professor Bridget Crawford was recognized by Pace University as a Distinguished Professor, which is the highest honor that Pace University bestows upon faculty. These are just a few examples of our achievements this year.
Our faculty continues to lead as teachers and thinkers, publishing cutting edge scholarly work while mentoring our students to become the next generation of legal minds. In a ceremony held in April 2022, we celebrated seven distinguished faculty members who retired over the past three years. Fellow faculty, alumni, students and colleagues gathered together for the first time since the pandemic to thank them for their years of teaching, scholarship and service to the law
school. We also welcomed new faculty, including Josh Galperin, who teaches Contracts, Environmental Skills, and Administrative Law.
We continue to attract top-notch students with a variety of backgrounds. For example, 2L Decnis Pimentel, a first-generation college student from the Dominican Republic, credits her mother as her biggest source of power and inspiration. Decnis wants to serve as an example for women of color, and Latinas in particular, that you can achieve anything you set your mind to. Krittika “Kye” Shah, a 2022 graduate, was born in India and raised in Singapore. Kye was attracted to Haub Law for its location and reputation for an amazing advocacy program and will join the New YorkCity Law Department after she takes the bar exam. While volunteering to protect a local river, LLM Candidate Rhea Mallett recognized how much more effective she could be if she knew more about wetlands, groundwater, and land use law—so she turned to Haub Law as a result of its premier environmental law reputation. Recently, while pursuing her LLM degree at Haub Law, Rhea was elected a Village trustee in Briarcliff Manor.
As you read this year’s alumni magazine, please take note of the strength of our alumni community and its many successes. You will read about the involvement of two of our graduates in helping secure land use entitlements for Frito Law, about the summer legal internship opportunity created at the NYC Office of the Inspector General’s Office in memory of dedicated alumnus Philip Foglia ’80, about the generosity of John Lettera ’99 and why he feels it is so important to give back to his alma mater, and more. We are exceedingly proud of our alumni, who continue to stand committed to our institution—providing internship opportunities and post-graduate employment for our students, giving us wise advice when consulted, serving as leaders of the bar, bench, business, and non-profit communities, and generously donating to the law school. Our alumni are critical to the success of our institution and we thank you for your continued support.
As we are now in June of 2022, we have much to be proud of, and with the summer comes an opportunity to reflect. Though we are still living through the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects, which are proving to be long lasting, we can see that light at the end of the tunnel and I am proud to have been surrounded by the Haub Law community through it all. I wish you all a safe and healthy summer, filled with the time to make memories with those who are important to you. I look forward to seeing you all at a future event.
Sincerely,
Horace E. Anderson Jr. Dean
