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Pace University School of Law is located in White Plains, New York, in Westchester County, some 25 miles north of New York City. We accepted our first students in September 1976, and last year celebrated our first quarter century of academic excellence. Our reputation and strong financial aid and scholarship program attract extremely talented students from diverse backgrounds, from 34 states and several countries. Many of our students have extensive prior work experience and advanced degrees in other fields including business, science and technology. Dean David Cohen, a recognized scholar and administrator, leads the school and its students to new levels of accomplishment in the Millennium.   

Pace Law School is nationally recognized for the excellence of our Environmental Law Program as well as our clinical programs. We offer certificate programs in two specialties -- Environmental Law and International Law, and have developed comprehensive concentrations in a wide range of areas including intellectual property law, business law, criminal law, real estate and land use law, and family law. Pace Law School also boasts Centers of Excellence including the Pace Land Use Law Center, the Women’s Justice Center, the Center for Environmental Legal Studies, the Energy Project and the Pace Center for Continuing Legal Education. 

A superb faculty teaches our core law school courses emphasizing theory and analysis through the Socratic method and experiential teaching through clinics, simulation courses and externships. Pace’s nationally recognized legal writing and research program is based upon an integrated first-year writing program: Criminal Law Analysis and Writing I and II which is a two-semester required course, taught in a seminar setting, that culminates in writing an appellate brief and argument before a moot court. 

The Law School is committed to student centered governance and teaching. Students are represented on the law school’s budget committee, and have substantial opportunity to participate in faculty hiring decisions. This focus ensures that all our decisions are made in the best interest of our students, and in their preparation for entry into a learned profession.

The Law School is committed to providing its students with the knowledge and values necessary to be effective and ethical lawyers as well as community leaders. The School’s clinical program, taught by tenured faculty, offers practical experience in law firms, corporate counsel, district attorney’s offices and other government agencies. Pace’s comprehensive career development program, staffed by four lawyers and two staff members, includes job search services, on-campus interviewing, on-line job listings, special panel presentations and workshops for both students and alumni.

Our public interest law program that includes Public Interest Entrance Scholarships, a Loan Repayment Forgiveness Program, Dean’s Awards for Pro Bono Service, public service opportunities in our externship and clinical programs, the Public Interest Law Students Organization (PILSO), and career counseling in Public Interest Law, defines our commitment to a professional ethic of service to others.

Our campus continues to grow with a new 27,000 sq. ft. state of the art classroom building that opened in 1999, a new 300 car parking garage, and the construction of the New York State Judicial Institute on the Pace Law School campus completed in the Spring of 2003.