2007-2008 Law School Fund Total: $1.95 million
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What Is The Law School Fund?
The Law School Fund is BC Law’s annual fund. Annual contributions to the Law School Fund are the foundation of voluntary support for the Law School, and the money raised is used immediately to meet the School's most important needs and opportunities.
Why Participate In The Law School Fund?
Through your annual gifts, every area of the Law School benefits and you help guarantee that the School’s highest priorities are funded year after year.
As a student, you likely benefited from some of the programs that are supported by the Law School Fund today. Now, your support is needed to continue our tradition of academic excellence and abiding commitment to service. Your support will ensure that current and future students receive the same opportunities that you had – just as those that came before you did for you.
What Does Your Support Mean To The Law School?
Following are some recent examples of programs supported by the Law School Fund:
- Scholarships. In FY'09, over $1.2 million went directly from the the Law School Fund to scholarships.
- The new LL.M. Program. The Law School Fund is providing critical funding for staffing and scholarships for this new program, which welcomed a new class of 12 in August, 2009.
- Loan Repayment Assistance for alumni in public interest positions. The Law School has never turned away a qualified applicant for loan repayment assistance. In 2009, 74 alumni received over $260,000, in Loan Repayment Assistance grants, five times the total dollars awarded just 10 years ago. More about LRAP here.
- Student community-building events, programs for students of color, reunions and alumni gatherings. These events help alumni, students, and faculty interact with each other and greatly enhance the School’s sense of community.
- Law Reviews and Oral Advocacy Programs. 150 students publish 5 law reviews that are some of the finest in the country. Last year, the Criminal Procedure Moot Court Team won a National Championship. Both the Jessup International Law Moot Court Team and the National Moot Court Team won the New England Regional Championship.
- Over $450,000 in research grants was awarded to BC Law faculty out of the Law School Fund in 2007-2008 (the money from the Law School Fund accounts for over 75% of the total grants awarded).
- The award winning BC Law Magazine reaches 14,000 readers and helps keep alumni connected to our School and to each other.
How To Reach Us
By Mail: Boston College Law School Fund, Office of Alumni Advancement, 885 Centre Street, Newton, MA 02459-1163
By Phone: (617)552-2727
By Fax: (617)552-2179
By Email: lawafund@bc.edu
