Celebrating our bold impact

More than 7,700 UB Law alumni and friends responded to the university’s Boldly Buffalo appeal, contributing significantly to the $1.1 billion raised. The law school’s campaign goal was raised three times as organizers aimed ever higher, and each time our donors came through to meet it.

The result: substantial increases in endowment funds, including those that support student scholarships and fellowships, and in named faculty positions, all critical in attracting top students and top scholars.

“This was a multi-year campaign, first started under Dean Makau Mutua,” says current Dean S. Todd Brown. “Every dollar raised for the law school has been invested in our priorities, including increasing scholarship opportunities for talented students, expanding our access to justice work and signature programs, building on our bar prep initiatives, and retaining our world-class faculty.

“The support provided by our generous law school community has been central to all we have accomplished so far, and it remains critical as we look forward. I am very grateful to the many alumni and friends who share our commitment to our students and to the future of our law school.”

$47,122,788 raised
7,784 total donors

• Increase in endowment
  From $14 M to $43 M (over 200%)
• Increase in named faculty positions
  From 4 to 12 named positions (200%)
• Increase in funding for endowed scholarships
  From 22 to 57
• Increase in funding for endowed fellowships
  From 1 to 18