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With a generous gift from Catlan M. McCurdy ’11 and Sanjiv P. Laud ’12, and an equal match from the Law School, the George Floyd Memorial Scholarship in Law was announced this week. 

The endowed scholarship will provide critical financial support, allowing underrepresented students, and Black or African-American students in particular, to pursue careers in the law and achieve their dreams.  

With more than 225 alumni and supporters from around the country gathered at Mondale Hall on Friday evening, April 20, the Law School launched the public phase of an $80 million fundraising campaign, the largest in its 130-year history.

The money raised through the Driven campaign will be used to create transformational programs and superior experiential learning opportunities for students; recruit and retain world-class faculty members; attract promising and diverse students; and secure the Law School’s place at the forefront of legal education.

Today the University of Minnesota Law School announced a transformational $25 million gift from the Robina Foundation. The grant—the single largest philanthropic gift in the Law School’s history—will fund the newly named James H. Binger Center for New Americans, establish a James H. Binger Professorship in Clinical Law, and provide scholarship support to Law School students.

The board of directors of the Minneapolis-based Robina Foundation has awarded generous grants of support to three important, ongoing initiatives at the Law School: the Robina Public Interest Scholars Program; the Bridge Fellowship Program; and the research being conducted by the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice into sentencing law and policy.