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CAMPAIGN OREGON: Transforming Lives
SCHOOL OF LAW CAMPAIGN GOAL: $15 Million

The University of Oregon School of Law estimates that its endowment must grow from the current level of $12 million to more than $60 million within the next 15 years in order to maintain and elevate our level of excellence. As part of Campaign Oregon, the Law School seeks to begin this critical endowment building process by raising $15 million by December 31, 2008.

CAMPAIGN PRIORITIES

Faculty Support: $4.8 million
As a top public law school, the University of Oregon School of Law is vulnerable to other institutions wanting to hire our best teachers and legal scholars. Strong endowments can provide annual salary supplements and general support for the professional activities of our most distinguished faculty members. They can also provide the resources to attract the best teachers and scholars. Endowed funds at the levels described below will help the law school compete successfully for preeminent faculty and retain talented faculty.

Dean’s Chair: $1.2million endowment
Distinguished Professorships: four endowed professorships at $600,000 each

Possible focus areas including, but not limited to: Law and Technology, Natural Resources Law, Family Law, Tax, Intellectual Property, International Law, Trial Law, Indian Law, Human Rights, International Law, Bankruptcy

Faculty Fellowships: two endowed fellowships at $300,000 each

Possible focus areas including, but not limited to: Family Law, Constitutional Law, Business Law, Appropriate Dispute Resolution

Faculty Summer Research Stipends; three research endowments at $200,000 each

Student Support: $4 million
Improving access to graduate-level education, enhancing student experiences and recognizing achievements are key factors in developing a first rate law school experience. By offering more merit scholarships and need-based aid, the law school will become competitive among its peers. Providing a loan repayment program for graduates pursuing careers in public service will help advance the law school’s tradition of providing leaders in the community. Our ability to attract the best students relies heavily on private endowments for financial aid. Merit-based scholarships will bring top students to the law school and ensure that our students continue to learn in a stimulating and intellectual environment. Need-based scholarships will give deserving students the chance to pursue a legal career. A loan repayment program will aid in our graduates' ability to choose their field of law regardless of the debt load incurred during their education. Providing funds to enhance the student experience beyond the formal classroom setting is essential to developing well rounded and capable graduates.

Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP)

Build a strong LRAP program ($5,000 per year per award or $125,000 endowment each)

Merit and need-based scholarships

Increase general scholarships for 1Ls & 2Ls (40 endowed scholarships at $25K minimum each)

Special Student Awards

Award for outstanding leadership in each of the law school’s four centers of excellence (four endowments at $125K each)
Award for the top writer in each section of Legal Research & Writing (LRW) and the top advocate in each LRW section ($2K/year or $50,000 endowment)

Moot Court

Moot Court Competitions Fund ($20K/year or $500K endowment)

Student Journals and Organizations

Law Reviews ($20K/year or $500K endowment)
Student Group activities ($20K/year or $500K endowment)
Law and Entrepreneurship Student Association ($10K/year or $250K endowment)
Technology Entrepreneurship Fellows Program ($5K/year or $125K endowment per fellow)
Minority Fellows Program ($5K/year or $125K endowment per fellow)
Multicultural Initiatives Endowment to support educational activities, cultural events, admissions outreach, etc. ($50K endowment)

Centers, Special Programs, and Professional Skills Development: $4.2 million
The objective of a formal legal education is to establish a solid foundation for a lifetime of professional service and growth. The law school places an equal emphasis on developing fundamental lawyering skills and gaining an understanding of the roles of the law and lawyers in society. The programs listed below relate to the development of a wide variety of specialized skills. Each of the programs receives virtually no state funding, relying almost entirely on philanthropic gifts from law school alumni and friends. These programs give students the opportunity to balance classroom learning and library study with hands-on training in basic professional skills. Endowment funds will ensure that the programs continue to operate and also expand to enhance the overall student experience.

Appropriate Dispute Resolution Program

Name the ADR center and provide ongoing support of its academic, programs, community service, conferences, trainings and scholarship ($5M endowment)
Create a Mediation Clinic for At-Risk Youth ($150,000-$200,000/year or $2.5M endowment)
Creation of an ADR Fellows program ($4,000/year or $100,000 endowment)
Endowed Conference and Speakers Series ($5,000/year or $125,000 endowment)
Halftime ADR Program Coordinator ($30,000/year for 5 years or $150,000)

Portland Center

Annual Business Innovation and Law Conference ($250,000 endowment)
Annual contributions to support program operations ($25,000-$50,000/year)

Center for Law and Entrepreneurship

Name the center and provide ongoing support of its academic, programs, community service, conferences, trainings and scholarship ($5M endowment).
Expand the Small Business Clinic ($1M endowment or $175K endowment per student)
Provide practitioner-oriented resource materials for a new Venture Capital Course ($5,000/year or $125K endowment)

Legal Research and Writing

Recruit an Instructor-Fellow in Legal Writing ($25K/year)
Purchase two ELMO classroom viewing image systems ($10K)
Implement a Certificate Program in Legal Writing ($50K)
Develop a Workshop in Lawyering Skills ($10K)

Environmental and Natural Resource Law Program

Sustainable Land Use Project ($500K to endow entire project or $400K endowment for lectures, $50K endowment for externships, $25K endowment for research stipends and $25K endowment for gen’l support)
Ocean and Coastal Law Project ($500K to endow entire project or $400K endowment for lectures, $50K endowment for externships, $25K endowment for research stipends and $25K endowment for gen’l support)
Human Rights and Environmental Democracy Project ($500K to endow entire project or $400K endowment for lectures, $50K endowment for externships, $25K endowment for research stipends and $25K endowment for gen’l support)
Native Environmental Sovereignty Project ($500K to endow entire project or $400K endowment for lectures, $50K endowment for externships, $25K endowment for research stipends and $25K endowment for gen’l support)
Conservation Trust Project ($500K to endow entire project or $400K endowment for lectures, $50K endowment for externships, $25K endowment for research stipends and $25K endowment for gen’l support)

Public Interest/Public Service Program

Name the PIPS program and provide ongoing support for its programs and director ($1M endowment).
Build an in-house Domestic Violence Clinic ($5.5M endowment)
Implement a Public Interest Practitioner-in-Residence Program ($25K/year).
Launch an Annual Oregon Ethics & Professional Responsibility Conference ($15K for two years, after which time the conference will pay for itself in CLE fees).
Create a public interest alumni database ($5,000)

Family Law

Support for the Domestic Violence Clinic
Support for Child Welfare and Advocacy Programs

Library and Building Endowment: $2 million
State support for the law library provides the minimum resource base, but only through private support will we be able to build a truly great law library. Increases in funding will help improve the quality of our collection. The Law Library has been unable to build, to an adequate extent, new collections in various expanding areas of the law. This minimum endowment investment will help strengthen this critical resource.

Our beautiful four-year-old building is already beginning to show the signs of heavy use. The addition of a minimal endowment in addition to current money for art acquisition and building enhancements will assure long-term sustainability of our state-of-the-art facility.

Strengthen Library resources

Electronic resources ranging from $500 for an electronic journal to $100,000 for "Making of Modern Law," a digitized legal history collection to $220,000 for the digitized U.S. Congressional Serial Set.
Additional books for the following subject collections: ADR, ENR Law, Coastal & Ocean Law, PIPS Law, Business & Entrepreneurship, Therapeutic Justice, Intellectual Property, International Law, Indian Law, and Labor Law
3 Display cases ($1500 each) and Library signage ($5,000)
Historical titles for Rare Book Room ($500 and up)
Faculty position to teach subject-specific research skills ($90,000/year)
Staff position to work evenings and weekends ($45K/year)

Building Art Acquisition

Implement a Rotating Art Exhibit Program ($3500/year)
Install better lighting for Art Gallery ($25K)
Name the Art Gallery and provide ongoing support ($500K endowment)
Create an Art Purchase Fund ($100K)
Create a Mural Fund ($50K)

Building Enhancements

Replace concrete steps between 2nd and 3rd floors with slate to be consistent with steps between 1st and 2nd floors. ($35K).