Pace Law School Creates a New Teaching Professorship: 
Pace Distinguished Law Teacher

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Pace Law School is pleased to announce that Professor Steven Goldberg has been named the 2005-2008 Pace Distinguished Law Teacher.  This appointment is given to a professors sixty years of age or older who have an outstanding record of teaching and scholarship.  The Pace Distinguished Law Teacher will focus on teaching rather than scholarship during the period he or she holds the Professorship.

Professor Goldberg currently teaches Torts, Evidence, Constitutional Law, First Amendment, and American Legal History. He is the author of a trial advocacy book, The First Trial (Where Do I Sit? What Do I Say?), which has been popular with the nation’s law students and lawyers for more than twenty years, and is the co-author, with Park and Leonard, of an evidence treatise in the West Hornbook Series, Evidence Law: A Student’s Guide to the Law of Evidence as Applied in American Trials.

The winner of the 1997 Keck Foundation National Legal Ethics Essay competition, Professor Goldberg has published articles on alternative dispute resolution, constitutional law, criminal procedure, and trial advocacy, in addition to works on legal ethics. He has taught at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law and at the University of Minnesota School of Law, where he was the associate dean for academic affairs and external relations. He served as dean of Pace University School of Law from 1989 through 1993.

Professor Goldberg also served for a decade on the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Criminal Justice Standards, chaired an ABA Task Force on Commitment of Non-responsibility Acquittees, was a member of the Standards Review Committee of the Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, and served as co-chair of the Westchester County Bar Association’s Committee on Lawyer Ethics from 1991 to 2002. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Founded in 1976, Pace Law School is a New York Law School with a suburban campus in White Plains, NY, 20 miles north of New York City. Part of Pace University, the school offers the JD program for full-time and part-time day and evening students. Its postgraduate program includes the LLM and SJD degrees in Environmental Law and an LLM in Comparative Legal Studies. Pace has one of the nation's top-rated Environmental Law programs and its Clinical Education program also is nationally ranked, offering clinics in domestic violence prosecution, environmental law, securities arbitration, criminal justice and disability rights. www.law.pace.edu 

Pace is a comprehensive, independent university with campuses in New York City, Pleasantville and White Plains, NY, and a Hudson Valley Center at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, NY. More than 14,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, School of Education, Lienhard School of Nursing and Pace Law School. www.pace.edu