Pace Law School Receives $1 Million Grant for ADR Center on Environmental Interest Disputes

From the press release:

"The Pace University School of Law ... announced establishment of the Kheel Center on Resolution of Environmental Interest Disputes. The Center will provide 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,” those that do not lend themselves to resolution by litigation.

The Center is being established with a $1 million grant to Pace Law School from Theodore W. Kheel, the famed mediator, through the Nurture Nature Foundation that he established and chairs. The grant will be supplemented by additional funding obtained through a fund raising campaign.

The Center will have a focus on using alternative dispute resolution techniques to resolve the many issues surrounding global warming. The Center also plans to assist law firms in establishing legal practices in this field."  [RJ]