Law School

In today’s highly competitive market for legal education, scholarships are critical to attracting top-caliber students. W&L Law prides itself on offering a distinctive education and cultivating broad-minded, highly skilled, and honorable practitioners of law. Additional scholarship resources will enable more students of exceptional academic and personal promise to benefit from a W&L Law education without incurring insurmountable debt.

While classroom excellence remains a hallmark of W&L Law, many students and alumni cite the school’s unparalleled opportunities as a defining part of their experience. Applying and reflecting upon one’s academic lessons in a real-world setting is invaluable and irreplaceable. Whether it is a community-building pre-orientation program or immersion in another culture and language, a rigorous internship or an eye-opening clinical opportunity alongside a faculty expert, we aspire to ensure that every student has access to the full W&L Law experience, regardless of their financial means.

A hallmark of W&L’s legal education is the individual attention students receive from professors, both in and outside of the classroom. W&L Law seeks to endow a professorship to recognize a faculty member whose exceptional teaching and engaged scholarship focus on developing our law students’ professional skills and identities while also being an engaged member of the university community. Ensuring every student has the tools to succeed at W&L Law is integral to the student-focused community within Lewis Hall. Endowing the Academic Success Program will provide the much-needed resources to enhance and expand the scope of this nascent program designed to put every student on the path to success.

W&L Law continues to focus its efforts on providing an exceptional learning environment for its students. Enhancing the first-floor entrance will present a more inviting and cohesive introductory experience to prospective students, alumni and visitors. Renovations to Lewis Hall will bring necessary technological and interior design upgrades to the Dean’s conference room and the community conference room, both of which host classes, speakers and visitors.