Comparative Environmental Law Course

Pace's Comparative Environmental Law course gives students hands-on experience comparing the environmental regimes of the United States and Brazil. This class, offered each spring, studies the respective environmental regimes of the United States and Brazil and aims to build students' capacity to assess environmental laws and national policies concerning environmental quality. At the end of the semester the students travel to Brazil where classes continue and include seminars conducted by prominent Brazilian scholars and attorneys. Students also take field trips to view fragile, yet crucial, ecosystems of Brazil.

Student Exchange Program

Pace University began a four-year Brazilian exchange program in the fall of 2003. The program is sponsored by the Tinker Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education through its Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) and the Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES).

This program allows Portuguese-speaking U.S. students to study in Brazil for a semester at either the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul or at the Federal University of Pará in Belém.  Brazilian students study in the United States at Pace University or the University of Texas, Austin, Pace's partner school.

Having the opportunity to collaborate with Pace's Brazil Program and to participate in the Brazil-U.S. Environmental Law Comparative course, enhanced my understanding and knowledge of major environmental concerns affecting not only Brazil, but the entire world. The strong relationship Pace maintains with highly qualified universities and professors in Brazil is a key element of the Program's success, one that brings together Brazilian and American professors and students to think jointly and constructively toward the improvement of environmental legislation and policies of both countries.

– Romulo Sampaio, LL.M. '06