Microsoft's top lawyer joins parade of big-name law school donors - Reuters
Microsoft President Brad Smith testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, February 23, 2021. Drew Angerer/Pool via REUTERS
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(Reuters) - A tech-industry attorney power couple has donated $5 million to endow the human rights clinic at their alma mater, Columbia Law School.
The gift comes from Microsoft president Brad Smith, who oversees the company’s legal affairs, and his wife Kathy Surace-Smith, a senior vice president at biotechnology company NanoString. Both graduated from Columbia Law in 1984.
The Smiths join a growing list of high-profile law school donors in recent months, including television’s Judge Judy and the owner of the Minnesota Vikings football team.
Columbia Law has renamed the clinic the Smith Family Human Rights Clinic in honor of the gift, it said Tuesday. It marks the second financial gift to the clinic from the Smiths, who donated $1.25 million in 2017. Their meetings with clinic students and faculty at that time spurred them to bolster their support, they said in a statement.
“It became apparent that a larger gift—and an endowment—would create a long-term, sustainable foundation for the Human Rights Clinic not only to continue but to grow,” Brad Smith said.
Students in the clinic take on social justice advocacy projects that aim to address economic and political inequality, poverty, and environmental injustice. Recent projects have ranged from seeking accountability for civilian casualties in Yemen to promoting access to sanitation in the United States.
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