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Pace Law School Receives $100,000 to
Establish Environmental Law Centers In
Developing Countries Around the Globe
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., September 6, 2002– Pace Law School has
received $100,000 from Gilbert Kerlin, an attorney presently of
counsel to the law firm of Shearman & Sterling. The grant will
support the Gilbert Kerlin Fund for Development of Environmental Legal
Education. This seed money will be used to establish environmental
legal education centers in developing countries around the world.
Professor Nicholas A. Robinson, Co-Director of the Pace Law
School Center for Environmental Legal Studies, will direct the fund.
Professor Robinson founded Pace's environmental law programs and has
drawn on that experience to assist law schools abroad in establishing
their own programs for environmental legal education. He has
established environmental law centers in Brazil, Kuwait and Singapore.
He currently is cooperating with universities in Manila (Philippines),
Moscow (Russia), Gabarone (Botswana), and Lima (Peru) to develop new
centers. He also has consulted with existing centers in China, India
and South Africa.
"The Law Department at the University of Botswana is
interested in building an LL.M. program in environmental law to serve
the entire region of southern Africa, and this grant will help make
that possible," said Professor Robinson. "We also hope to
restore the teaching of environmental law in Moscow and enhance our
on-going work with Brazilian legal institutions."
The grant also will support academic meetings of the faculty
representatives of existing environmental centers and centers in
formation around the world. Other activities funded by the grant may
include providing stipends to scholars from developing nations to
further their work in environmental law and training programs to
educate teaching faculty.
In 1999, Mr. Kerlin, with his late wife Sarah Kerlin,
funded the Gilbert & Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professorship of
Environmental Law, a position currently held by Professor Robinson.
The Kerlins were also instrumental in the founding and development of
Wave Hill, in Riverdale, one of New York City’s foremost cultural
institutions involved in environmental education.
Founded in 1976, Pace Law School is located in White Plains, New
York, 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, poverty law, environmental
litigation, securities arbitration, and disability law. Pace Law
School is part of Pace University, a comprehensive, independent and
diversified University with campuses in New York City and Westchester
County, and a Hudson Valley Center located at Stewart Airport in New
Windsor.
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