WHO:        Cass R. Sunstein is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at The University of Chicago Law School and a member of The University of Chicago’s Department of Political Science. Sunstein has lectured on a wide array of leading edge constitutional and environmental law issues. His written work addresses controversial subjects, including the books Risk and Reason; Animal Rights: Current Controversies and New Directions; Why Society Needs Dissent; and the forthcoming The Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle. Sunstein graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1975. After graduation, he clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Before joining the faculty of The University of Chicago Law School, Sunstein worked as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice.

WHEN:     April 25, 2005, 5:00 p.m.

WHAT:     The Eleventh Annual Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law. Sunstein’s topic is “Irreversible and Catastrophic: Global Warming, Terrorism, and Other Problems.”

WHERE:   Pace Law School, Robert B. Fleming Moot Courtroom, 78 North Broadway, White Plains, New York.

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