Law Academic Lectures

The 3rd Annual Pace Law Exposition on Intellectual Property, Sports, and Entertainment Law was hosted by the Pace Intellectual Property, Sports, Entertainment Law Forum (PIPSELF). This symposium takes a closer look at the future of digital media and the evolution of patents. Keynote speaker Dale Cendali is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and the head of the firm's Copyright, Trademark, Internet and Advertising Practice Group. She is a nationally recognized leader in the field of intellectual property litigation, having successfully litigated and tried numerous high-profile cases, and having argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. Cendali has repeatedly been ranked as a "top tier" lawyer by Chambers Global and Chambers USA. Managing Intellectual Property selected her as one of the six "Outstanding IP Practitioners" in the United States, and named her trial victory for J.K. Rowling on the high-profile "lexicon" fair use case as the "Copyright Trial of the Year." Patent panel participants include: Fred Fabricant, Esq., Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP Phil Furgang, Esq., Partner, Furgang & Adwar LLP Gavin McIntyre, Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Ecovative Design LLC
 Manny Schecter, Esq., Chief Patent Counsel, IBM Jaime Siegel, Esq., Senior Vice President, Acacia Research Group Moderator: Sapna Palla, Esq., Kaye Scholer LLP Digital Media/Technology panel participants include: Dale Cendali, Esq., Partner, Kirkland & Ellis Jess Collen, Esq., Managing Partner, Collen IP Lauren Dienes-Middlen, Esq., VP Intellectual Property, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Stanley Pierre-Louis, Esq., VP and Associate General Counsel, Viacom, Inc. Moderator: Dean Horace Anderson, Pace Law School

“Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War,” a traveling exhibition which opened at the Pace Law Library examines how President Lincoln used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the Civil War—the secession of Southern states, slavery and wartime civil liberties. To celebrate the opening of this prestigious exhibition at Pace Law School, the Pace Law Library hosted Assistant Dean Mark Shulman in “What Abraham Lincoln Can Teach Us about Confronting National Security Threats in the 21st Century.” "Lincoln: the Constitution and the Civil War," a traveling exhibition for libraries, was organized by the National Constitution Center and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The traveling exhibition has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Lincoln: the Constitution and the Civil War is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the National Constitution Center.

Katherine “Kit” Kennedy is Counsel to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Air and Energy Program and lead's the NRDC’s legal and regulatory efforts on climate change and clean energy at the national level. Prior to returning to the NRDC, she was Special Deputy Attorney General for Environmental Protection for New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo; New York State's highest environmental official overseeing the work of the Attorney General’s Environmental Bureau. Previous to her appointment to state government, Kennedy served as a senior attorney and director of the Northeast Energy Project at the NRDC since 1988. She received the New York County Lawyer's Association Award for Outstanding Public Service in 1993, and in 1999 was awarded a Wasserstein Public Service Fellowship from Harvard Law School. Kennedy is the chairman of the board of the Healthy Schools Network, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving public health and the environment in schools. Kit Kennedy received her JD from Harvard Law School in 1986 and a BA from Harvard College in 1982. She clerked for the Honorable Morris E. Lasker in the Southern District of New York. Kennedy is co-director of the Yale Environmental Protection Law Clinic at Yale Law School.

Pace University School of Law Twenty-Fifth Annual Commencement, May 18, 2003. Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) recipient: Hon. Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals-Second Circuit. To read honorary degree citation or Sotomayor's commencement address visit http://www.law.pace.edu/commencement/sotomayor. Pace University School of Law, 78 North Broadway, White Plains, NY, www.law.pace.edu.