Bloomberg Law
May 9, 2016, 3:40 PM UTC

Pace University’s Law Dean on Name Changes and the State of Legal Education

Casey Sullivan

Last week, Pace University announced that its law school would rebrand itself as the Elisabeth Haub School of Law, named after the late German environmentalist .

In an interview, the law school’s dean David Yassky fielded questions about the news, his views on the state of legal education, and the recent “kerfuffle” around George Mason University’s law school being named after the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

“To me, that is certainly a fit person to name a law school after,” he said.

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Yassky is the tenth dean of Pace Law School. He was appointed to the position ...

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