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Over the past two decades, an influx of support has lifted USC Law School into a new stratum: among the best endowed and best financed in the country. Its $100 million-plus endowment ranks in the top 10 among private law schools in America.
In 1997, Crispus Attucks Wright ’38 broke new philanthropic ground with his $2 million fund for scholarships. At the time, Wright’s was the largest cash gift ever made to USC Law School; and the second largest donation by an African American to any law s
Crispus Attucks Wright with USC law students supported by his $2 million scholarship fund. |
chool.
Since then, the law school has continued to make strides in endowing the future of its faculty. Two newly funded chairs – the J. Thomas McCarthy Trustee Chair in Law and the Sydney M. Irmas Chair in Public Interest Law and Legal Ethics – were recently filled, respectively, by Christopher Stone, a leading authority on environmental law; and Erwin Chemerinsky, a national expert on constitutional law and civil rights issues.
These endowments bring to 29 the school’s total count of professorships. Other chair-holders include constitutional theorist and federal jurisdiction authority Scott H. Bice (Carl Mason Franklin Dean’s Chair), law and theology scholar Ronald R. Garet (Carolyn Craig Franklin Professor), criminal and juvenile law expert Charles H. Whitebread (George T. and Harriet E. Pfleger Professor), law and psychology authority Martin L. Levine (UPS Chair), constitutional law theorist Larry G. Simon (H.W. Armstrong Professor), foreign relations law expert Edwin M. Smith (Leon Benwell Professor), jurisprudence and family law expert Scott A. Altman (Virginia S. and Fred H. Bice Professor), biomedical ethics authority Alexander M. Capron, (Henry W. Bruce Professor), broadcast regulation scholar Matthew L. Spitzer (William T. Dalessi Professor), mental health and family law expert Elyn R. Saks (Orrin B. Evans Professor), corporate liability authority Jennifer H. Arlen (Ivadelle and Theodore Johnson Professor), tax policy expert Edward J. McCaffery (Maurice Jones Jr. Professor), law and politics authority Susan Estrich (Robert Kingsley Professor), income tax expert Thomas D. Griffith (John B. Milliken Professor), bioethics and constitutional expert Michael H. Shapiro (Dorothy W. Nelson Professor), computerized legal research specialist Albert O. Brecht (John Stauffer Professor), contracts and antitrust authority W. David Slawson (Torrey H. Webb Professor), and real estate and land-use regulation expert George Lefcoe (Florine and Ervin Yoder Professor).
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