Pritzker’s father, Donald Pritzker, co-founder and former chief executive of Hyatt Hotels Corporation. In addition, the gift will permanently endow the school’s Entrepreneurship Law Center, renaming it the Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurial Law Center in honor of J.B. “This remarkable gift will allow us to expand our work in these unbelievably critical areas,” Schapiro said. The gift will support multiple social justice centers at the School of Law, including the Center on Wrongful Convictions, the Children and Family Justice Center and the Center for International Human Rights. The School of Law is the seventh of NU’s 12 schools to be named after a benefactor or leader, he said.
“With this transformative gift, we leap ahead in our ability to provide a Northwestern legal education to all our best students, regardless of financial circumstances,” Schapiro said. University President Morton Schapiro said the Pritzkers’ gift will have a significant financial impact on students pursuing law degrees at NU. “The strategic plans for our university and the law school guide us to excel in critically important academic areas where we can, and should, be national and global leaders,” Osborn said. Reaching such a point requires fundamental pieces to be in place, including a visionary but viable strategy as well as resources and talent needed to implement that strategy, he said. Thursday was a major turning point, both in the history of the School of Law and the history of legal education, Osborn said. Pritzker, made a $100 million donation to the School of Law, the University announced on Thursday.īill Osborn, chair of the Northwestern Board of Trustees, said the school will be renamed the Pritzker School of Law.
With one of the largest gifts to a law school in the nation, J.B.
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