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Centers

 

The Center for Environmental Legal Studies oversees all of Pace Law School's environmental academic programs and research centers and is home to the faculty and staff of the environmental law programs.

  • Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic – Working with the Riverkeeper organization, Pace students work as lawyers protecting the watershed of the New York City region.
     
  • Brazil-American Institute for Law and Environment (BAILE) - A unique combination of classroom and field training, BAILE allows students to travel to Brazil to experience local environmental law first hand.
       
  • Kheel Center for the Resolution of Environmental Interest Disputes - Established in 2008, the Kheel Center on Resolution of Environmental Interest Disputes provides educational programs for law students and lawyers in the techniques of discovery, fact-finding, and other means of alternative dispute resolution to resolve environmental interest disputes that cannot be resolved by litigation, such as the many issues surrounding global warming. The Center also plans to assist law firms in establishing legal practices in this field.
     
  • Pace Land Use Law Center - Established in 1993, the Land Use Law Center is dedicated to fostering the development of sustainable communities and regions through the promotion of innovative land use strategies and dispute resolution techniques.  Through its programs, the Land Use Law Center offers conferences, seminars, clinics, academic law school courses, continuing legal education programs, audio podcasts, and frequent publications and resources on contemporary land use, real estate, and environmental issues.  The Land Use Law Center leads the nation in educating local land use leaders through training programs in land use law and community decision-making.  It has graduated over 2000 leaders from its four-day intensive Land Use Leadership Alliance (LULA) training program and garnered over 100 formal resolutions of support from local governments and businesses.  Students of Pace Law School work closely with attorneys at the Center, conducting research, writing articles, advising clients, and assessing land use conflicts. 
     
  • Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies - The Pace Academy for Environmental Studies, builds upon its predecessor, the Pace Academy for the Environment created in 2002. The mission of the Academy is to advance the understanding of the mutually enhancing relationship between nature and society through a University-wide program of interdisciplinary pedagogy, scholarship, policy development and service. A freestanding institute in the Office of the Provost, Pace Academy’s role within the University is to engage all departments of Pace through a suite of unique programs that are typically outside the reach of any one school, college, department or curriculum. Through its work, the Pace Academy has become known for its regional leadership by spearheading the formation of the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges & Universities (a 50-member collaboration) and launched the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries (focusing on applied technological innovation).
     
  • Pace Energy and Climate Center - founded in 1987 by Dean Emeritus Richard L. Ottinger, a former member of Congress, the Pace Energy and Climate Center (formerly the Pace Energy Project) is counted among the major public interest leaders of energy conservation and renewable energy advocacy and is among a small group who regularly meet to advise on the energy issue agenda for environmental NGOs nationally. The Pace Energy and Climate Center is now directed by Franz Litz. The Center works at the nexus of environmental law, energy law and economic policy. The staff and students associated with the Center use research, education, and advocacy to promote sustainable energy as a means of reducing the global burden of pollution from electrical energy production. It serves the national and international environmental community using restructured electricity markets, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and distributed power in the Northeast as laboratories for policy innovation.
     
  • Science, Technology, and Policy Center - In this unique Center formed in 2008, students have the opportunity to work with technology and science leaders in non-profit organizations in the Hudson River Valley to form policy recommendations backed by the latest information and research available. The Law School's primary research partner in this Center is the cutting-edge Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries.


Pace Law School Centers and the Law Office Climate Challenge

Through an ongoing commitment to fostering both law school-wide and individual eco-awareness and improvement, in August 2008 Pace Law School became the second law school in the nation to participate in the "Law Office Climate Challenge," an initiative created by the American Bar Association's (ABA) Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promote environmental sustainability.  The Climate Challenge was created by the ABA, in cooperation with the EPA, as a way of encouraging law offices (including law schools, nonprofit entities, and law firms) to take specific steps to conserve energy and resources, as well as reduce emissions of greenhouse gases – which have been linked to global climate change – and other pollutants. Environmental research centers at Pace Law School are part of the "Law Office Climate Challenge" as well.