April 25, 2006

Taubman gives $3 million for WSU law school center

The Wayne State University Law School will receive a $3 million donation from businessman Alfred Taubman, to help pay for construction of a new building. The building will replace the law school\'s current classroom building and will contain classrooms, offices, meeting rooms and an auditorium. Total cost will be $7.5 million; the rest of the money will come through fund-raising. The building also will house the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights and part of the Keith Law Collection of African-American Legal History, which WSU established in 1993. Law school officials called the melding of the Taubman donation with the Keith center a way of merging Taubman\'s support of Detroit, Keith\'s civil rights record and WSU\'s position in the legal community. \"It brings together Alfred Taubman\'s belief that the city of Detroit is really coming back,\" Frank Wu, dean of WSU\'s law school, said Monday. \"It blends that with Judge Keith\'s passion for civil rights. And it couples that with commitment to the city and to civil rights and couples that within an urban research university. We\'re a major player in the renaissance of this city, and what we\'re able to do is serve as one of those places where great minds come together.\"

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