Funding Priorities
In keeping with the university’s general fundraising initiatives the College of Law has defined its top three general funding priorities as follows:
Student Scholarship Support
- Donors may establish named, endowed scholarships with a minimum gift of $25,000. Once a scholarship is endowed, 5% - 6% interest income is earned on the corpus every year in perpetuity and given as a student scholarship award. Contact or call 504-861-5442 for more information.
- Donors may make contributions of any amount to augment existing endowed scholarships, such as the Law Dean’s Scholarship Fund, a general endowment for scholarship awards given to students who demonstrate both need and merit. A complete listing of endowed scholarship funds can be found in the Scholarships and Financial Aid section of the Law Bulletin.
- Donors may make gifts of $1,000 or more to establish a one time, annual scholarship. The entire scholarship gift is given to a student in the year that the gift is made. A complete listing of annual scholarships can be found in the Scholarship and Financial Aid section of the Law Bulletin.
Faculty Support
The most popular endowment to support faculty teaching and scholarship at the College of Law has been the endowed professorship. A donor makes a gift of $60,000 which is then matched by the State of Louisiana’s Board of Regents with a $40,000 grant, for a total endowment fund of $100,000. The faculty member selected to hold the endowed professorship may use the interest income earned on the endowment to enhance his or her scholarly research or teaching, for travel to present papers, or to attend lectures and conferences. Our existing professorships are as follows:
- Adams and Reese Distinguished Professorship in Civil Law - held by Professor James E. Viator
- Adams and Reese Distinguished Professorship II Established 2002 - held by Professor Bobby Marzine Harges
- Henry F. Bonura, Jr. Professorship - Distinguished Professorship - held by Professor Jeanne M. Woods
- Alvin R. Christovich Distinguished Professorship - held by Professor Dane S. Ciolino
- De Van Daggett Distinguished Professorship - held by Professor Henry D. Gabriel
- Judge Adrian Duplantier Distinguished Professorship - held by Dean Brian Bromberger
- Ferris Family Distinguished Professorship - held by Professor M. Isabel Medina
- Ted and Louana Frois Distinguished Professorship in International Law - held by Professor Bernard Keith Vetter
- Dean Marcel Garsaud, Jr., Distinguished Professorship - held Professor David R. Normann
- Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre Professorship - held by Professor Dian Tooley-Knoblett
- William L. Crowe, Sr. Distinguished Professorship of Law - held by Professor David W. Gruning
- John J. McAulay Professorship - held by Professor Patrick R. Hugg
- Janet Mary Riley Distinguished Professorship - held by Professor William P. Quigley
- Eleanor Legier Sarpy Professorship - held by Professor Raphael J. Rabalais, Jr.
- Léon Sarpy Professorship - held by Professor Kathryn Venturatos Lorio
- Victor H. Schiro Professorship - held by Professor James M. Klebba
- Judge John D. Wessel Distinguished Professorship of Social Justice - held by Professor Gerard A. Rault, Jr.
- Fanny Edith Winn Professorship - held by Professor Dennis L. Rousseau
- Philip and Eugenie Distinguished Professorship - held by Father Lawrence W. Moore, S.J.
- Michaelle Pitard Wynne Distinguished Professorships ( I, II,III) - held by visiting professors
- Michaelle Pitard Wynne Distinguished Professorships (IV) - held by visiting professor
Other endowments which support law faculty and can be augmented with a gift of any amount:
- Student-faculty Research Funds can be established with a minimum gift of $10,000. They provide stipends for students to serve as research assistants for faculty members. Existing student-faculty research funds which may be augmented with gifts of any amount include the Alfred J. Bonomo, Sr. Family Scholarship and the Rosaria Sarah LaNasa Memorial Scholarship Fund. Descriptions of these funds can be found in the Scholarships and Financial Aid section of the Law Bulletin.
