Wisconsin
Lawyer
Vol. 81, No. 6, June
2008
Marquette Law School breaks ground on Eckstein Hall
More than 800 people joined Marquette President Robert A. Wild and
Marquette Law School
Dean Joseph D. Kearney on May 22 to break ground on Eckstein Hall, the
future home of
Marquette University Law School. Ray Eckstein, who with his wife, Kay,
donated $51 million to
the project, and Joseph Zilber, who donated $30 million, were present.
Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme
Court, Chief Judge Frank
H. Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and
Natalie A. Black,
an alumna of the law school who is a Marquette trustee and executive of
Kohler Co., also spoke.
"Our law students have been our top priority in designing
Eckstein Hall, and this will
be reflected in every detail, from the Zilber Forum where students and
faculty will gather, to
a 21st-century library that flows seamlessly on every floor into the
rest of the building,
to classrooms that will spark engagement, even to a fitness center and
underground parking,"
said Kearney. "When finished, Eckstein Hall will provide not just
world-class facilities for
delivering a Marquette legal education, but also the place for all of
Milwaukee, and indeed
for scholars, lawyers, and jurists from throughout the world, to come to
address the
important issues of the day. A basic premise of our ambitions for
Marquette University Law School
is that we are - and can increasingly be - an important economic,
social, cultural, and
political driver for this region."
The 200,000-sq. ft. building, with three-quarters of the $85
million total cost already raised, is expected to open in fall 2010.
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