Priorities

Endowment

Faculty Support

A top-notch and expanded faculty, second to none:
So much depends on faculty who move the mind and stir the spirit. Additional endowment will give us the means to draw more of the top talent, with professorships in a variety of legal disciplines.

Student Support

Student aid to keep the best and brightest coming:
Penn Law students are remarkable by any standard, and most choose among the nation's top law schools. More endowment will help us offer competitive financial aid and relieve the burden on our operating budget.

Institutes

Cross-disciplinary institutes that will be to the legal world what think tanks are to government:
Cross-disciplinary institutes stir new thinking and help us educate people in the role of integrator. We look to establish new institutes in areas such as Law and Health Sciences, Law and the Constitution, and Law and the Global Community.

Capital

Modernized facilities that foster a challenging but personal experience:
Penn Law has invested heavily in facilities in the last decade, but more projects await - renovations to the dean's suite, the lower floor of Silverman and Pepper Halls, "The Goat" and adjacent areas. Additional renovations will create seminar-style classrooms that foster interaction and the free flow of ideas.

Unrestricted

Program support and increased annual support to sustain every day excellence:
While endowment provides us with a financial foundation, term gifts - those we can expend immediately - sustain the every day excellence of our efforts. During the campaign, we plan to grow annual giving at 5 percent a year. We will also direct increased support to the Biddle Law Library, the Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies, and the Institute for Law and Economics.