WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – On December 3rd, Pace Law School was presented with the International Association of Law Libraries Award of 2002 in the non- commercial website category. This honor was given in recognition of Pace Law School’s outstanding CISG database, a joint offering of the International Institute of Commercial Law at Pace University School of Law and the Pace University School of Law Library. The Association’s selection panel consisted of Lisbeth Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen, Jules Winterton, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, James Butler, The Supreme Court of Victoria, and Lyonette Louis-Jacques, University of Chicago.

The CISG is the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the Uniform International Sales Law of Countries that account for two-thirds of all world trade. Pace Law School was lauded for its commitment to making available extensive primary and secondary legal materials on the topic through its CISG database. In its ongoing development, the database now has over 1,000 judicial and arbitral case presentations and 5,000 case annotations are being assembled. In addition, with the collaboration of the Queen Mary Case Translation Programme, University of London, it now has over 300 cases translated into English with many more in progress. Because of these and other enhancements, the database receives over three million "hits" per year from researchers in over 144 countries and is linked to by approximately 1,000 other web sites.

The Association’s selection panel stated, "We would like to encourage the development of useful, authoritative, reliable and user-friendly sites. We chose Pace Law School’s CISG website because it lives formidably up to the qualities we were looking for. A great project- containing nearly all information about CISG gathered in one site. They show us the way to get a successful partnership worldwide, through its innovative site."

Founded in 1976, Pace Law School is located in White Plains, N.Y., 20 miles north of New York City. The School offers the J.D. program for full-time, and part-time day, and evening students. Its post-graduate program includes the LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees in Environmental Law and an LL.M. in Comparative Legal Studies. Pace has one of the nation's top-rated environmental law programs and its Clinical Education Program also is nationally ranked, offering clinics in domestic violence prosecution, securities arbitration, criminal justice, and disability rights.