George Mason University’s law school in Arlington, Va., just outside Washington, D.C., will soon be renamed for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
The new name will be the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason, or “Scalia Law School,” for short, the school announced Thursday.
The school recently received donations totaling $30 million from conservative sources, including $10 million from the Charles Koch Foundation.
GMU’s Board of Visitors formally voted for the change Thursday afternoon.
“It sends a general message that George Mason is a law school on the move,” dean Henry Butler told the Wall Street Journal. “We have $30 million in scholarships going out when schools are competing like crazy for students.”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a close friend of Scalia’s, said, “As a colleague who held him in highest esteem and great affection, I miss his bright company and the stimulus he provided, his opinions ever challenging me to meet his best efforts with my own.”
“It is a tribute altogether fitting that George Mason University’s law school will bear his name.”
