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Stanford Law lands largest-ever outright law school gift Adam Henry Not a bad week for the Cardinal. Last Thursday, Stanford Law School announced the receipt of the "largest individual gift ever given outright to an American Law School." The historic gift, in the amount of $43.5 million, will be used to support the construction of a new residential complex for law and other graduate students. Stanford's president hails the housing project as "unique living-learning model for legal education" in a university press release here. Then, on Tuesday, the National Institutes of Health announced funding for new Centers for Excellence in Ethical, Legal and Social Implications at four US universities, Stanford among them. The centers aim to address pressing legal issues raised by recent advances in genetics and genomics. Duke University, a second recipient of funding, previews the involvement of Duke Law School faculty in its center's research in a press release here. Meanwhile, the University of Washington School of Law, a third recipient, offers its own release here. In other law school news, Professor Michael Madison of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law debuted a new weblog this week devoted to technology law and public policy. Today at Madisonian Theory, the professor hurrahs - literally - a decision issued Tuesday by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Chamberlain Group v. Skylake Technologies, characterizing the case as the kind "that should engage everyone, showing how IP law can touch the day-to-day lives of everyone." Finally, a note to readers that Pitt Law will provide even more daily blogging when JURIST's Law School News resumes regular publication, under the new name of "Law School Buzz," next Tuesday. The weblog will also feature a new look soon, as part of an aesthetic and functional overhaul of the JURIST site. Thanks for reading. 7:45 PM | | link to this post | latest Law School News Comments by Haloscan |
