WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Aug. 25, 2005 –  Irma Russell joins Pace as a visiting professor from the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis , where she is a professor teaching professional responsibility, environmental law, and contracts.

Professor Russell is a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, which issues formal opinions relating to issues of legal ethics. She serves as an officer on the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources and as the Section liaison to the Association of American Law Schools and is a member of the ABA Section on Legal Education, Professionalism Committee. She was founding chair of the Memphis Bar Association Environmental Law Section and has served as chair of the Tennessee Bar Association Environmental Section. In practice, Professor Russell represented potentially responsible parties, government entities, lenders, and other clients on issues arising under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, National Environmental Policy Act, as well as issues related to wetlands designation and site mitigation, and other environmental and commercial issues. Professor Russell is a member of the American Law Institute. Professor Russell will teach courses in administrative law, environmental justice, and advanced professional responsibility.

Founded in 1976, Pace Law School is a New York Law School with a suburban campus in White Plains, N.Y., twenty 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, N.Y., and a Hudson Valley Center at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, N.Y. 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