Maryland-Pace Environmental Law Alliance

A First of its Kind Collaboration

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The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law—two of the nation’s top-ranked environmental law programs—have joined forces to offer students a collaborative and expansive legal education. Since 2015, this first-of-its-kind partnership has created a unique learning community across two campuses, offering students from both schools a chance to learn, connect, and lead in the environmental field. The Alliance draws on each program’s strengths in the field to train the next generation of environmental lawyers in a new era of legal education and environmental challenges.

Through the Alliance, Pace and Maryland share environmental externship and experiential learning opportunities, engage in faculty and student exchanges and training programs, collaborate on global environmental law projects, and hold joint conferences, workshops and symposia each yea. The schools offer a semester-long student exchange program, as well as courses taught jointly by professors at both schools. The Alliance seeks to create joint curricular and degree opportunities, teamwork between environmental law centers and clinics, and joint research projects and publications among other initiatives.

In 2016, the Pace-Maryland Environmental Law Alliance took office jointly as co-secretariats for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Academy of Environmental Law (PDF), the only international learned society for university environmental law academic scholars. Working with the Academy's Governing Board as co-secretariats, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University carry out the affairs of the Academy, including organizing the Academy's Annual Colloquia and coordinating the production of Academy publications.

Questions?

Students, alumni, and non-media with questions: please contact Achinthi Vithanage, Executive Director of the Environmental Law Program at the Elisabeth Haub School of Lae at Pace University at avithanage2@law.pace.edu.