Digital repository for Pace Law School law reviews

Pace Law Review, Pace Environmental Law Review and Pace International Law Review are now available via the Pace University digital repository hosted by Bepress. The full-text of all issues, beginning with volume 1, issue 1, is available as searchable PDF files.

The law reviews were formerly available in the series format in the Pace Digital Commons, but have been migrated to the more appropriate journal format. Each issue includes the editorial board. Currently there are 1,634 articles in 173 issues comprising 79 volumes.

This project was managed by Cynthia Pittson, Head of Reference Services at Pace Law Library and Adjunct Professor of Law.

Pace Law Review was established in 1980, and celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Over the years it has published transcripts of speeches and lectures by current and former Supreme Court Justices, including Warren E. Burger, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Harry A. Blackmun.

Pace Environmental Law Review was established in 1983. The most recent issue is devoted to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.

Pace International Law Review was established in 1989. It devoted an early issue to discussion of the establishment of an international criminal court, and publishes frequent articles on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

Articles from all three law reviews were downloaded over 50,000 times between May 2009 and April 2010 in the old series format.

Guide For Law Review Members

The Pace Law Library created a new guide titled Guide For Law Review Members. This guide will assist students who serve on the three Pace law reviews. It provides a basic overview of cite checking, circulation policies, and interlibrary loan request procedures. You can find suggestions on how to find print and/or electronic sources, how to obtain sources via ILL, and what to consult to properly cite.

Also, take a minute to view the full list of Pace Law Library Guides.

Pace Law School Commencement Addresses by Legal Luminaries

Over the years, a number of distinguished judges and other legal scholars have delivered commencement speeches at Pace Law School graduations. I previously posted a link to Judge Sonia Sotomayor's commencement speech to the graduates of the class of 2003.

Over the past few months, the Library has been working to add all content from all three Pace law reviews to the Pace Digital Commons. During the course of this project, we discovered reprints of the transcripts of two other speeches. First, the Honorable Warren Burger's address to the class of 1983. Justice Burger served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1969 to 1986.

Second, Governor Mario M. Cuomo's address to the class of 1989. Governor Cuomo served as governor of New York from 1983 to 1994.