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Pace Law School Announces Appointment of
Richard Ottinger, Jeffrey Miller as
Director of Environmental Law Programs
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – David Cohen, Dean of
Pace Law School, is pleased to announce the appointment of
Dean Emeritus Richard L. Ottinger as Assistant Dean of
Environmental Law Programs for the spring semester, 2002, and thereafter of Professor
Jeffrey G. Miller. The Law School is currently seeking a Director of
the Environmental Law Programs.
Richard Ottinger was Dean of the Law School
from 1994-1999, and before that was a tenured professor teaching in
the environmental law program for ten years. He was a Member of
Congress from Westchester County, New York for sixteen years. He is a
graduate of Harvard Law School and Cornell University. He authored Environmental
Costs of Electricity, a nationally acclaimed study of
environmental externalities and numerous articles.
Miller has been a tenured Professor of Law
in the Pace environmental law program for more than a decade, and the
James D. Hopkins Professor of Law 1999-2000. Prior to coming to Pace,
he was with the enforcement division of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency in Washington, D.C.; and earlier, litigation partner
in a Washington, D.C. law firm. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School
and Princeton University. He is the author of Citizen Suits:
Private Enforcement of Federal Pollution Control Law, the casebook
The Law of Hazardous Waste Disposal and Remediation, and many
book chapters and articles on environmental law topics.
Pace Law School has one of the top environmental
law programs in the country, with a distinguished faculty and one of
the most extensive environmental law course offerings in the country.
The program includes an internationally renowned research institute,
the Pace Center for Environmental Legal Studies, which sponsors the
Pace Energy Project; an Environmental Litigation Clinic co-directed by
professors Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Karl Coplan; a student-run Pace
Environmental Law Review and Environmental Law Society; and a National
Environmental Moot Court Competition in which 57 law schools competed
this year and which includes an Environmental Law Professors’
Workshop. The program publishes the Journal of the Pace Center for
Environmental Legal Studies, and maintains an award-winning web
site, the Pace Virtual Environmental Law Library.
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 the 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.
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