elisabeth haub school of law

In this episode...

Professor Josh Galperin explains government rule-making authority and provides a broad overview of topics covered in administrative law.

Some key takeaways....

1. Administrative law is the law that governs day-to-day government operations. It explains how federal agencies like the EPA, FDA, or SEC get authority to act, restrictions on their actions, and judicial review of their work.
2. Agencies make rules, adjudicate disputes, enforce law, and offer policy guidance.
3. Rules are prospective and general policymaking while adjudication is case-by-case, fact-oriented dispute resolution.
4. Guidance is the process, short of making official rules, where agencies make non-binding predictions about how they expect to exercise their power.

About our guest...
Professor Josh Galperin is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.  In the Fall of 2021, Prof. Galperin will join the Elisabeth Haub School of Law as an Assistant Professor of Law.  Prior to his position as a Visiting Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Professor Galperin held several positions at Yale University. He served as Associate Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, as a Research Scholar, Clinical Director, and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, and as a Lecturer and Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Program at the Yale School of the Environment. During his time at Yale, Professor Galperin also oversaw the Haub Law/Yale School of the Environment dual degree program and coordinated the Land Use Collaborative, a joint project of the Land Use Law Center and Haub Law and the Yale School of the Environment.
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In this episode...
Professor Karl Coplan, Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Litigation Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University discusses his new book, Live Sustainably Now: A Low Carbon Vision of the Good Life, published by Columbia University Press. Professor Coplan shares ways, both small and large, in which each of us can lower our carbon footprints, and together make a difference in the fight against climate change. 

Live Sustainably Now reads as much as a memoir as it does a call to arms. Coplan shares how he lives on a 4-ton annual carbon budget by kayaking across the Hudson River to work or inserting a wood stove to heat his home, through what he calls Carbon Diaries. Each Diary is a fun read and an aspirational example of helping with climate change. He presents his efforts through what he calls Carbon Diaries, each of which is fun to read through his Carbon Diaries, which include—carbon life, sharing his carbon diary (like how he kayaks to work or rode his bike rather than drives). But unlike so many books on climate change, this book is neither unreasonably aspirational nor preachy. Coplan recognizes that his efforts may be other herculean and offers small reasonable steps that each of us can take to effect change, and feel good doing so. (check out the chapter on Having Fun on a Climate budget!) He also clearly explains what factors work against our climate and does so—easily and understandably. Filled with information sandwiched between personal highlights, it is an interesting read. You're likely to finish it in one sitting.

Some key takeaways....

1. Every flight across the country emits enough carbon monoxide to fill a house
2. Of all protein production, Pork and Meat production emits the highest levels of carbon monoxide.
3. Doing something as simple as switching to renewable energy will make a difference
4. The easiest and best step we can each take is to check our carbon footprints.

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In this episode...
Michael Mushlin, Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, responds to one of the most perplexing issues for law students: How do the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure fit within the Civil Procedure class framework.  This episode is essential for any student studying Civil Procedure.

Some key takeaways are:  

1. The Rules Cover the Waterfront (that they apply to everything)
2. The Rules are Indecipherable (that you can't read them even if you try)
3. The Rules are Divinely Inspired (courts are not permitted to interpret them)
4. The Rules Don't Always Apply as Written. 

About our guest…
Professor Michael B. Mushlin teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, and Prisoners' Rights. He is the author of book chapters, and articles on a variety of subjects involving evidence, federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, children's rights, and prisoners' rights that have appeared in journals such as the Yale Law and Policy Review, UCLA Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review, The Journal of Legal Education, Brooklyn Law Review, and the Fordham Urban Law Journal. He also is the author of RIGHTS OF PRISONERS (4th ed West) a four-volume comprehensive treatise on the law regarding prisoners' rights and NEW YORK EVIDENCE WITH OBJECTIONS (4th ed National Institute of Trial Advocacy 2013) (with Jo Ann Harris).

Professor Mushlin was appointed Charles A. Frueauff Research Professor of Law during the 1991-1992 academic year, and James D. Hopkins Chair in Law during the 2005-2007 academic years at Pace Law School. He received his J.D. cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law. Professor Mushlin practiced as a public interest and civil rights lawyer for 15 years as staff attorney with Harlem Assertion of Rights, Inc., as staff attorney and Project Director of the Prisoners' Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society, and as Associate Director of the Children's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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