Priorities

The School of Law is determined to continue its historic mission of preparing lawyers for leadership. This will require outstanding students and faculty, an international perspective, a multi-disciplinary approach and a deep engagement with practice-based learning grounded in Baltimore and reaching out across the globe.

Priority areas include:

Educating Future Leaders: $20 Million

For nearly 200 years, the School has been an engine for leadership in the state and nation. School of Law graduates are at the forefront of the bench, bar, government, business, and public policy. An investment in student support will allow us to attract and educate outstanding students, who will continue this tradition and become your colleagues throughout the state, region, and nation.

Improving Law and Society: $20 Million

From improving environmental regulation in Asia to increasing access to drug treatment in Baltimore, our faculty members are improving law and society through research and work in public policy. Increased investment in professorships and faculty development will ensure the law school retains our top-caliber faculty and recruits new talent. In turn, these great faculty will attract other superior faculty and talented students. Resources for our nationally recognized academic programs will help us share what our faculty have discovered through national conferences and provide increased opportunities for students to learn by doing in the law school's legal clinic and around the world. All of this work helps expand access to justice and shape solutions to pressing societal problems here and around the world.

Seizing Opportunity: $10 Million

Innovation, creativity, risk-taking — these are hallmarks of an institution on the rise. Over the last several years the School of Law has launched an innovative international externship program, a new scholarly journal focused on business and technology law, and a new public program linking law and the arts. Unrestricted gifts provide the School of Law the flexibility to designate support to the school's most pressing needs and to seize new and unexpected opportunities.