Milwaukee, WI – Marquette University will celebrate the groundbreaking of its new Law School building in a ceremony on May 22. The Board of Trustees gave final approval for the project on May 7.
“We recognize the importance the Law School has always had in educating lawyers of the highest skill and ethical caliber,” said Marquette president Rev. Robert A. Wild, SJ. “This new building will allow our first-rate faculty to deliver the very best in legal education to a new generation.”
The building will be named Eckstein Hall in honor of the $51 million donation from Raymond and Katherine Eckstein, an alumni couple. The 200,000 sf building will include two courtrooms, classrooms, faculty office suites, library space with a two-story reading room, as well as a conference center and cafe. Below the building will be a two-level, 170-space parking garage.
The building, which was designed by Shepley Bulfinch in association with Opus Architects & Engineers, is scheduled for completion by fall 2010.
Speakers at the May 22 ceremony will include Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson.
