Jessica Dubuss is Executive Director of Communications at Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace. University

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to welcome two new faculty members beginning in Fall 2025. Gregory Antill, a criminal law and philosophy scholar, will join the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law and will teach courses in criminal law and tort law while also supervising student scholarship and research projects in the advanced legal writing seminar. Kate Skolnick, who will also join the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law, is an accomplished public defender and respected criminal law scholar, will teach courses in criminal law and criminal procedure, along with an advanced criminal law seminar.

Professor Antill is currently an Academic Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School. He has also held previous academic appointments at Yale University, Pomona College, and Claremont McKenna College. His primary teaching and research interests include criminal law, tort law, and evidence, where he applies recent advances in philosophy and cognitive science to traditional legal questions about mens rea, culpability, causation, and expert testimony.

“Professor Antill brings an extremely unique perspective to the Haub Law community in his focus on and background in both law and philosophy,” said Dean Horace E. Anderson, Jr. “His prior studies and degrees allow him an innate ability to encourage his students to examine the law from both a practical and theoretical standpoint. We look forward to Professor Antill joining the Haub Law community.”

“Haub Law has a long history of embracing both intellectual and educational excellence in the study of law,” said Professor Antill. “I look forward to furthering my research interests and contributing to the innovative academic community that makes up Haub Law.”

Professor Antill’s scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in The Yale Law Journal, The California Law Review, and The University of Chicago Law Review, among other publications. He holds a JD from Yale Law School and a PhD in Philosophy from UCLA, where he was an Andrew W. BY JESSICA DUBUSS Elisabeth Haub School of Law Welcomes Two New Faculty Members WESTCHESTER LAWYER | JULY 2025 | 17 Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies. During his time at Yale Law School, he was an editor on the Yale Law Journal and editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law & The Humanities.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is proud to have more than 130 legal experts as members of its full-time and adjunct faculty. Faculty members are lawyers with outstanding academic credentials and extensive legal experience. They are student-centered educators who bring their diverse practice experience to the classroom. Through either prior or ongoing active careers as attorneys— whether as litigators, counselors, regulators, legal reformers, policymakers, judges, clerks, or counselors—our faculty have unique perspectives informed by their work in multiple fields of law in the private and public sectors.

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Prior to joining Haub Law, Professor Skolnick served as an Acting Assistant Professor in the Lawyering Program at New York University School of Law, teaching first-year lawyering as well as a reading group on prison and police abolition. For nearly a decade and a half before entering academia full-time, Professor Skolnick was a post-conviction public defender at the Center for Appellate Litigation (CAL), where she also taught in the Appellate Criminal Defense Clinic at Cornell Law School. At CAL, she litigated a range of cases, from direct appeals, to collateral attacks on convictions in state and federal court, to resentencing petitions, to Sex Offender Registration Act hearings. For her work in attempting to implement the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act, a pioneering sentencing reform that has since expanded to other jurisdictions, she received the 2022 Award for Outstanding Achievements in Promoting Standards of Excellence in Mandated Representation from the New York State Bar Association.

“Professor Skolnick comes to Haub Law with an extensive and accomplished background in criminal law,” said Dean Anderson. “With her background as a public defender, coupled with her experience as a professor, she brings a wealth of real-world experience and academic knowledge with her. At Haub Law, we believe in connecting classroom learning with practical, real-world impact and Professor Skolnick’s background and experience will do exactly that. The Haub Law community is eager to welcome Professor Skolnick.”

Before joining CAL full-time, Professor Skolnick worked as a research scholar at the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School, where she examined the institutional impact of programs supporting students moving from incarceration into post-secondary education. Professor Skolnick’s research and teaching focus on a critical examination of the criminal legal system, and in particular on unwinding mass incarceration while promoting the full participation in society of those affected by the carceral system. Her writing has appeared in the N.Y.U. Law Review.

Haub Law provides a robust criminal law curriculum, including prosecution externships, a criminal defense clinic, and several upper-level courses. Professor Skolnick shared her excitement about joining Haub Law, noting “Haub Law offers an incredible range of criminal law courses and experiential opportunities. I look forward to contributing to this strong foundation and working with students who are passionate about justice and reform. You can sense the close connections among faculty, staff, and students alike at Haub Law and I am excited to join the community.”

Professor Skolnick received her BA from Stanford University, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa; and her JD from Columbia Law School, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of The Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual, a selfhelp litigation resource for incarcerated persons. At Columbia, she received Kent and Stone Scholar designations and a Lowenstein Fellowship to pursue public interest work upon completing her degree.

In the April edition of Westchester Lawyer, Haub Law announced the expansion of its faculty with the addition of Professor Lauren Roth, a health law and business law scholar, who will also join the faculty as an Associate Professor of Law beginning in Fall 2025. Professor Roth will teach courses in corporations, contracts, and health law while also contributing her expertise and leadership to Haub Law’s Health Law and Policy Certificate program. Currently an Assistant Professor of Law at Touro Law Center, Professor Roth brings a wealth of academic and professional experience to Haub Law. Her teaching and research interests include health law, business law, fiduciary law, and employee benefits.