WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.- Pace Law School’s International Law Department will be holding a reception honoring Professors Eric Bergsten, Albert Kritzer and Marie Stefanini Newman. Professor Emeritus Eric Bergsten is being recognized for receiving the 2003 Award for Distinction in International Law and Affairs. Professors Albert Kritzer and Marie Stefanini Newman are being honored for their work on the Pace Website on the Vienna Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods (CISG), which was given the 2002 Award for Non-Commercial Legal Information Websites. The reception will take pace on January 21, 2003 at 4:00 p.m. in the Tudor Room at Pace Law School.

Professor Emeritus Eric Bergsten is the developer and administrator for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. He has been given the Award for Distinction in International Law and Affairs by the New York State Bar Association International Law and Practice Section. This award will be given at the International Law and Practice Section’s annual meeting, which will take place at New York’s Marriott Marquis on January 22, 2002. Bergsten was selected for this award due to his significant contribution to the global development of international law. Previous Award Recipients have included: Arthur C. Helton, Director, Peace and Conflict Studies (2002), Alice H. Henkin, Director, Justice and Society Program at The Aspen Institute (2001), and Albert Kritzer, Pace University School of Law (1998).

Pace Law School will also be honoring Professors Albert Kritzer and Marie Stefanini Newman who, with others, conceived of and developed the Pace Website on the Vienna Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods (CISG). On December 3, 2002, Pace Law School was presented the 2002 Award for Non-Commercial Legal Information Websites, given by The International Association of Law Libraries. This honor was given in recognition of Pace’s outstanding CISG database, a joint offering of the International Institute of Commercial Law at Pace Law School and the Pace School of Law library.

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.

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.