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White Plains, NY 10603
Phone: 914.422.4210; Fax: 914.989.8714
E-mail: admissions@law.pace.edu; Website: www.law.pace.edu
Pace Law School is a national law school, recognized for its high-quality environmental law program. Students can explore a wide range of curricular offerings or pursue one of 16 areas of study. Pace Law School also offers a variety of clinics, centers, externships, and simulation courses for hands-on practical experience. White Plains, New York, home to Pace Law, is also home to federal and state court houses, numerous law firms, corporations, public interest organizations, and government entities and is just 20 miles north of the heart—and pulse—of New York City.
Founded in 1976, Pace Law benefits from its network of more than 7,000 alumni throughout the world. Pace Law offers full-time and part-time day programs with the opportunity to pursue a Master of Laws in Environmental Law (including the nation's first Climate Change track and the Land Use Sustainability track); a Master of Laws in Comparative Legal Studies; and a Doctor of Laws in Environmental Law. The school is part of Pace University, a comprehensive, independent, and diversified university with campuses in New York City and Westchester County.
The JD program provides students with the fundamental skills necessary for the practice of law nationally, and the flexibility to shape their elective coursework based on particular career goals. The curriculum is based on the concept that rigorous standards and high-quality teaching can coexist with an atmosphere congenial to learning and enjoyment. Students can obtain certificates in Environmental Law and in International Law by completing a sequence of courses with a specified GPA in the applicable area. Pace Law offers the opportunity to pursue joint degrees in the JD/MBA and JD/MPA programs, as well as the JD/MEM with Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the JD/MS in Environmental Policy with Bard College, and the JD/MA in Women's History with Sarah Lawrence College. Graduate law degrees, an LLM in Comparative Legal Studies or Environmental Law and an SJD in Environmental Law, attract attorneys from around the world. Pace Law JD candidates taking 12 credits of environmental law may earn LLM degrees in one additional semester.
The majority of elective classes have fewer than 25 students, which enables close faculty-student relationships. The range of scholarship reflects a faculty of diverse interests, and the curriculum offers courses in traditional areas of legal study, legal theory, and specialized studies. Areas of study include constitutional law, commercial law, corporate law, civil litigation and dispute resolution, criminal law and criminal procedure, evidence, family law, intellectual property, real estate law, women's justice, and land use law. Faculty scholarship also covers such specialized areas as the Americans with Disabilities Act, children's legal representation, environmental and toxic torts, equal pay, hazardous waste, health-care fraud, international commercial law, land use, legal and ethical issues in health care, nonprofit organizations, prosecutorial and judicial ethics, racially motivated violence, securities fraud, and white-collar crime.
Pace Law School offers many clinics, simulation courses, and externships through a myriad of on-campus centers, institutes, and lawyering skills programs.
Students can represent the underserved through the Family Court Externship with the Pace Women's Justice Center, preserve individual liberties through our John Jay Legal Services Immigration Justice Clinic, or work side by side with assistant district attorneys through a prosecution externship preparing and prosecuting criminal cases.
In the popular and growing field of environmental law, students work on conservation and development matters through the Land Use Law Center; help nation-states develop climate change policies through the country's only United Nations Environmental Diplomacy Externship; extern with a federal agency in Washington, DC; and help accelerate the world's transition to clean, efficient, and renewable energy alternatives through the Pace Energy and Climate Center.
Pace Law's international programs allow students to spend a summer abroad with one of the United Nations War Crimes Tribunals, or intern locally with law firms and corporate legal departments handling international trade matters. Students may also spend the spring semester abroad through the Pace London Law Program.
Judicial externship programs allow students to hone their writing skills in a mentoring program with a faculty member and in the chambers of a state or United States district or circuit federal court judge.
Whatever your interests, Pace Law has the facilities and resources to help you pursue them.
The Pace Law Library is housed in an airy, modern facility. The law library contains an extensive collection of law and law-related publications, provides access to materials in other libraries in metropolitan New York and throughout the United States, and subscribes to national online research systems such as LexisNexis, Westlaw, HeinOnline, and BNA's Law School Professional Information Center. Pace Law students have free access to these databases from computer terminals distributed throughout the law library as well as in the student lounge, and from their home computers. A wireless network is available in the law library, classroom buildings, and throughout the campus. The library was recently renovated and features attractive, comfortable spaces in which students can study individually or in groups.
A comprehensive aid program has been developed to include scholarships, need-based grants, employment, loans, and a loan-forgiveness program for graduates who choose a public interest career. Over $1.6 million has been allocated for first-year students. These funds may be available on the basis of financial need and academic merit.
The Center for Career and Professional Development and the Public Interest Law Center (jointly the "Center") offer a number of services to students and alumni, including one-on-one counseling and résumé review; panels and programs regarding the many areas of legal practice; specific job, internship, and fellowship opportunities; a winter career fair; and on-campus interview and résumé-collection programs. The Center publishes dozens of online career guides that provide an overview of practice specialties and related legal employment markets, descriptions of the various types of legal employers, and specific legal-recruiting information. The Center also provides sample résumés and cover letters and other resources. The staff actively solicits and identifies employment opportunities through an on-campus career fair, targeted mailings, and other outreach activities.
Pace Law publishes three law reviews, the Pace Law Review, the Pace Environmental Law Review, and the Pace International Law Review. Students also work on the Journal of Court Innovations, a joint journal created by Pace Law and the New York State Judicial Institute; GreenLaw, an online blog published by the Pace Law Center for Environmental Legal Studies; and the Pace IP, Sports and Entertainment Law Forum, an online publication dedicated to the discussion of emerging legal issues in the intellectual property, sports and entertainment law fields. Students compete in interscholastic moot court competitions; host the largest environmental moot court competition in the country (the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition); and participate in the Pace-founded Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, the first and largest international commercial arbitration moot court competition of its kind, in Vienna, Austria. Pace Law also sponsors 27 active student organizations, focusing on professional interests, diversity, politics, and social action.
Pace Law School seeks students with demonstrated potential to meaningfully contribute to the diversity of the law school community and legal profession. Full-time students may apply to enter in September or January. The January-entry program allows students to complete the degree through an accelerated two-and-a-half-year program.
Pace Law hosts several open-house programs that include tours; discussions with faculty, administrators, and students; and information regarding the admission process, financial aid, placement, and campus life. For a complete list of our on-campus events, visit our website at www.law.pace.edu.
This grid includes only applicants who earned 120–180 LSAT scores under standard administrations.
| GPA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LSAT Score |
3.75+ Apps |
3.75+ Adm |
3.50– 3.74 Apps |
3.50– 3.74 Adm |
3.25– 3.49 Apps |
3.25– 3.49 Adm |
3.00– 3.24 Apps |
3.00– 3.24 Adm |
2.75– 2.99 Apps |
2.75– 2.99 Adm |
2.50– 2.74 Apps |
2.50– 2.74 Adm |
2.25– 2.49 Apps |
2.25– 2.49 Adm |
2.00– 2.24 Apps |
2.00– 2.24 Adm |
Below 2.00 Apps |
Below 2.00 Adm |
No GPA Apps |
No GPA Adm |
Total Apps |
Total Adm |
| LSAT score 175–180 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| LSAT score 170–174 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 14 |
| LSAT score 165–169 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 51 | 36 |
| LSAT score 160–164 | 34 | 30 | 46 | 41 | 53 | 46 | 35 | 32 | 15 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 215 | 176 |
| LSAT score 155–159 | 53 | 44 | 108 | 92 | 122 | 97 | 136 | 112 | 79 | 60 | 29 | 22 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 557 | 442 |
| LSAT score 150–154 | 76 | 59 | 156 | 102 | 179 | 82 | 169 | 33 | 112 | 17 | 50 | 4 | 26 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 793 | 299 |
| LSAT score 145–149 | 36 | 12 | 81 | 30 | 141 | 14 | 119 | 4 | 91 | 1 | 46 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 556 | 61 |
| LSAT score 140–144 | 15 | 1 | 46 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 262 | 1 |
| LSAT score 135–139 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 104 | 0 |
| LSAT score 130–134 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 37 | 0 |
| LSAT score 125–129 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| LSAT score 120–124 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Total | 230 | 157 | 462 | 281 | 568 | 249 | 551 | 187 | 382 | 91 | 205 | 40 | 113 | 14 | 45 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 44 | 9 | 2610 | 1030 |
Apps = Number of Applicants
Adm = Number Admitted
Reflects 99% of the total applicant pool; highest LSAT data reported.