CWRU Law Lands $10M Gift

The Law School at Case Western Reserve University recently landed a $10 million gift.  Here's an excerpt from the school's announcement:

[A]lumnus Coleman P. Burke (LAW ’70) has committed $10 million to establish a center at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law that combines two of the driving passions of his life: the environment and the law. 

The gift—the largest in the law school’s 126-year history—creates the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law. The Burke Center will dramatically expand students’ learning opportunities in environmental law, while also establishing the school as a leading intellectual hub of interdisciplinary research and thought leadership in this rapidly growing field. * * *

Case Western Reserve law professor Jonathan H. Adler, one the country’s most innovative and frequently cited environmental law scholars, will serve as the center’s director. * * *

The Burke Center’s first major event takes place this fall, with a symposium centered on the upcoming 50^th anniversary of the founding of Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. Papers from this symposium will be published in the Case Western Reserve Law Review. The center also is planning a spring 2020 symposium on environmental health, to be co-sponsored with the school’s Law-Medicine Center—the nation’s first institute centered on the subject of health law.

The Burke Center also will support scholarships for students interested in environmental law, along with faculty positions in the area. It also will build on the school’s national leadership in experiential learning by funding environmental law externships and related opportunities around the country. Finally, the center will sponsor student research and development of additional courses in environmental law.

Congratulations  to CWRU and to Jonathan Adler on this exciting development.

Comments

[Al Brophy]

That's terrific.

[CK]

Prof. Adler will make an excellent director.

[Jonathan H. ADler]

Thanks!