Funding Priorities

The Law Fund at Stanford Law School provides resources for critical needs and priorities in teaching and research. It also gives law school leadership and faculty the flexibility to develop more innovative interdisciplinary and experiential learning. Simply put, without the Law Fund, students would not have a true SLS experience.

Each year, more than 1,000 alumni and friends demonstrate their commitment to SLS’s present and future through gifts to the Law Fund. These gifts of all sizes combine to make a difference in every courtyard, classroom, and curriculum at Stanford Law School:

• Experiential learning:  Law Fund gifts support the policy labs and full-time clinics at SLS, defining experiences for SLS students where they solve real problems for real clients
• Financial aid: the Law Fund enables SLS’s need-blind admissions policy and commitment to provide funding to all who qualify
• Faculty: the Law Fund supports diverse and talented educators whose research influences domains that include business, global commerce, health care policy, and preserving the rule of law
• Seed funding for new programs: from the global law initiative to emerging teaching and research in AI and the law, many of SLS’s cutting-edge programs are able to flourish thanks to unrestricted dollars from the Law Fund
• Public interest and public service: Law Fund dollars support summer and post-graduate financial assistance to students and alumni committed to launching public interest or public service careers, despite the significant disparity in pay

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