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George Mason University on Thursday announced that it had renamed its law school the Antonin Scalia School of Law. The law school also received $20 million from an anonymous donor and $10 million from the Charles Koch Foundation, a high-profile funder of conservative causes.
Those gifts, the combined amount being the largest ever received by George Mason, will be used to create three new scholarships for law students, the university said. One of the scholarships also will be named for Scalia, the conservative U.S. Supreme Court associate justice who died in February. Scalia was a longtime resident of Northern Virginia, where George Mason is located.
The law school is well known for its conservative scholarship and for attracting many conservative students.
Another Beltway law school, at Georgetown University, in February issued a statement mourning Scalia's death. Some professors objected to the law school's move, saying such "unmitigated praise" should not have been attributed to the entire law school community.
