The School of Law is rising to the challenge of recruiting and retaining high-quality faculty members with a renewed focus on establishing additional endowed professorships and chairs to retain our best faculty, and to recruit the top experts in new and expanding legal fields to ensure students receive the training that they need and deserve.
Endowed chairs and professorships are essential tools in reaching our goals of being recognized as one of the strongest and most vibrant law schools in the country and sustaining the important contributions our faculty make to teaching, scholarship and public service.
Support Faculty Endowed Professorships and Chairs
By endowing a Faculty Professorship or Chair, you have the opportunity to honor or memorialize anyone you choose, including family members, law school professors, mentors or inspirational colleagues. Professorships and Chairs can also be named to highlight legal subject areas, practice areas or an area of the donor's interest
Your support will allow the USD School of Law to:
Recruit and retain distinguished faculty
Fortify curricular departments at USD School of Law and provide for future and long-range planning for the law school
Secure the ongoing mission of the law school to be a top-ranked legal institution by enhancing the reputation of the faculty and thereby improving the independent rankings for the law school in the State of California
Ensure the law school is well-equipped to educate and inspire top students for generations to come
Help to meet the growing instructional and academic needs of the law school while simultaneously lessening the need for increased tuition
$50K Minimum Pledge
5-Year Annual Named Professorship*
$10k annual distribution to a current/existing faculty member (content)
*Not an endowed fund
$500K - $1M
Endowed Professorship
For a current/existing faculty member
$2.5M - $3.5M
Endowed Chair (current position)
For a current/existing faculty member
$5M - $7M
Endowed Chair (new position)
New faculty position in a designated area
USD School of Law Faculty Endowed Professorships and Chairs
Annsley and George Strong Professor-in-Residence for Trial Advocacy
Class of 1975 Endowed Professor
Don Weckstein Professorship in Labor and Employment Law
Fellmeth-Peterson Faculty Chair in Child Rights
Herzog Endowed Scholars
Herzog Research Professor
Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Fellow in Constitutional Originalism
Lyle L. Jones Professorship in Competition and Innovation Law
Price Chair / Professor in Public Interest Law
Richard S. Shaw Endowed Professorship in Tax Law
Richard and Kaye Woltman Professor of Finance
Stanley Legro Visiting Professor in Environmental Law
Warren Distinguished Professor of Law
Judith Keep Professor of Law
Napoleon A. Jones Professor of Law