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Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professors Bridget Crawford and Emily Gold Waldman article in The Conversation discussing how menopause treatments can help with hot flashes and other symptoms, highlighting that many people are unaware of the latest advances in this area, gets picked up by Raw Story.

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professors Randolph McLaughlin and Debra Cohen, representing the family of Sean Harris have filed a federal civil rights complaint against Clarkstown, Rockland County, and several first responders who were involved in a standoff that preceded the death last year of the 19-year-old.

17�Թ��� Professor Leslie Garfield Tenzer was featured in a American Bar Association article for her Legal Emoji Dictionary, a helpful resource in courtroom litigation and the first of its kind. “An older person looks at an eggplant and sees a vegetable, but someone younger sees a penis,” Tenzer says. “It really becomes an issue if in a case the decision-maker is an older jury or an older judge. They may interpret the meaning differently from the individual who used it in their conversation.”

17�Թ���’s Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman examines “A Little-Noticed Supreme Court Opinion That Could Bring Huge Consequences” in an article for the New York Law Journal.

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The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 17�Թ��� is pleased to announce the creation of the Vanessa Merton Immigration Justice Fellowship, a key component of the school’s Immigration Justice Clinic focused on ensuring the legal system’s just treatment of immigrants in the Hudson Valley and local New York Metropolitan region. Barbara Sarmiento, a 2024 graduate of Haub Law, has been selected to serve as the program’s inaugural fellow beginning this fall.

An avid reader and world traveler, Steffen Pedersen has worked his entire legal career as a maritime lawyer in international law firms. Currently, he is working as a maritime arbitrator with a keen interest in deep sea mining. He is also a frequently published author and panelist on the topic of international arbitration and mediation, with a focus on East and South-East Asia. Steffen decided to pursue his LLM in Comparative Law at Haub Law to open the door to more opportunities in the United States in his career as an international arbitrator.