Role of Federal Lands in Addressing "Extinction Crisis" for Wildlife to be Discussed in Distinguished Lecture at Pace Law School 

WHITE PLAINS, NY – One of Ralph Nader’s original “raiders” will discuss what she calls “the extinction crisis” for wildlife on March 28, 2006, at 5:00 p.m. in the Classroom Building 202 at Pace Law School, 78 North Broadway in White Plains. A reception will be held immediately following. Admission to this lecture is free of charge and open to the public.

Pace Law School ’s twelfth annual Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law will be presented by Karin P. Sheldon, director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School . She has written extensively in the areas of natural resources and environmental law, including federal land management, wildlife conservation, water resources allocation, and watershed management and protection.

Sheldon’s lecture, “Upstream of Peril: The Role of Federal Lands in Addressing the Extinction Crisis,” will explore the question of whether US federal lands offer an opportunity to get ahead of the species extinction crisis and assure a sustained resource of wildlife into the future.

Karin P. Sheldon is a professor of law, associate dean for the Environmental Law Program, and director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School . Prior to joining the faculty there, Professor Sheldon was president of the Wilderness Society in Washington, DC, a staff attorney with the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund in Colorado , a partner in a public interest law firm, and one of Ralph Nader’s original “raiders.” Her work included efforts on behalf of environmental organizations and Native American tribes on issues of mining and oil and gas development, endangered species protection, and federal reserved water rights.

Professor Sheldon serves on the Board of Directors of Defenders of Wildlife, EarthWorks, and the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation. She has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute, and the Advisory Board of the Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado School of Law.

She received her AB in Political Science from Vassar College and her JD from the University of Washington School of Law.

Founded in 1976, Pace University School of Law has nearly 5,000 alumni/ae throughout the country. It offers full- and part-time day and evening JD programs on its White Plains, N.Y., campus. The School also offers the Master of Laws in Environmental Law and in Comparative Legal Studies. The School, which has one of the nation's top-rated environmental law programs, also offers the SJD program in that field. The School of Law is part of a comprehensive, independent and diversified University with campuses in New York City and Westchester County. 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