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e are delighted to provide this report honoring the
16,262 donors who committed a total of $173.9 million to the 2004–2012 capital
campaign. The campaign began shortly after the Law School entered into financial
self-sufficiency with the University. That arrangement and your support will help ensure the Law School’s continued competitiveness with the nation’s finest public and private law schools. When the capital campaign began, none of us could have foreseen the enormous challenges that would be posed by the Great Recession and its aftermath. But we could easily have predicted our community’s response to those challenges. In tough economic times, you made the Law School a priority and not only met, but surpassed, the $150 million campaign goal. The results of the Law School’s first capital campaign (1993–2000) are visible all around us in the Harrison Law Grounds, one of the nation’s most beautiful and functional places to learn and teach. But the results of the just-completed campaign, appropriately themed The American Ideal in Legal Education, are equally important and will be equally durable. In this campaign, we invested in our most important assets—our students and faculty. The campaign added greatly to the resources available for scholarships, fellowships, and public service loan forgiveness. It also endowed chairs and other sources of faculty support that will help us attract and retain worthy successors to Hardy Dillard, Emerson Spies, Tom Bergin, Lillian BeVier, and other giants of our past. And we transformed a drab office corridor in the former Darden School (now Slaughter Hall) into the stunning Karsh Student Services Center, a further contribution to our unmatched student experience. David Mulliken ’75 and Ned Kelly ’81, the campaign co-chairs, and the rest of the Campaign Executive Committee led from the front throughout. They gave freely not only of their financial resources but also of their time. Their efforts multiplied those of the Law School Foundation staff and the dean. Like its predecessor, this campaign reflected the Law School’s tradition of inclusion and participation. An astonishing 72% of living alumni made gifts. Participation was even higher among our youngest alumni, whose memories of the Law School are freshest. Over 89% of alumni who graduated
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