The Elizabeth Haub Foundation gave Pace Law School a $10,000 grant to enable it to expand student access to foreign language training. The money will fund licenses to the language-learning software, Rosetta Stone.
“Pace Law School boasts several extraordinary experiential learning courses for law students who function in languages other than English,” Professor Nicholas Robinson said. “This grant will allow them to use the Rosetta Stone training program to learn the basics of the foreign languages they need for their experiential course work.”
Students participating in the United Nations Environmental Diplomacy course serve as environmental attachés in missions to the U.N. in New York City, while those enrolled in the Brazil-USA Comparative Law course travel to Brazil where they participate in meetings conducted in Portuguese.
However, the language program will also benefit those students active in Pace Law School”™s clinics where they regularly represent clients whose native language is not English, Robinson said.
The mission of the Elizabeth Haub Foundation is to support the implementation of the U.N.”™s efforts toward solving the world”™s environmental problems and developing practices that lead to sustainable use of natural resources.
