Annual Giving: Every Dollar Counts

Every gift to the Law School Foundation during the capital campaign, whether for unrestricted use, loan forgiveness, scholarship support, or any other purpose, will also count in the annual giving campaign. View the 2008-2009 Annual Giving Campaign results.

Here are a few ways the Law School is putting to work the generous gifts we receive from alumni every year.

Public Service The Public Interest Law Association is distributing a record $350,000 in grants to 72 law students working in public service jobs this summer, according to PILA organizers. “We’re really proud of both the unending support of student body, faculty and staff, as well as our fund-raising efforts,” said PILA President Katie Schleeter. More	Fellowships During her second-year summer law job, Anishah Cumber worked at the Legal Aid Bureau of Maryland, where she saw the trouble many women from South Asia had trying to exercise their rights as legal immigrants to America and at the same time preserve the traditions of their culture. More	Law & Business The Foundation funds Law & Business short courses taught by industry leaders, including Michael Ross '77, former senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary of Safeway Inc.; Byron Marchant '87 of Black Entertainment Television, Inc.; and Joe Gladden '67, formerly of Coca-Cola Inc. More	Student Life The Law School hosted several student-run symposia this year, including the J.B. Moore Society conference on the rise of the left in Latin American politics, an election law conference that featured the former chairman of the Federal Election Commission and the annual Conference on Public Service & the Law.	Faculty Frederick Schauer, a leading expert on the First Amendment, constitutional law, and legal philosophy, joined the University of Virginia Law School faculty this summer. Schauer had been the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government since 1990, and was previously Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. More

Under a financial self-sufficiency arrangement with the University, the Law School retains 90 percent of the tuition dollars generated by Law School students. Ten percent is remitted to the University for overhead. Additionally, we reimburse the University for specific expenses incurred. This allows the Law School to chart its own course and obtain freedom from the uncertainty of the government budgeting process. It also means private support is more important than ever.