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New Calif. law school unveils its first clinic
May 19, 2009
LOS ANGELES — The University of California, Irvine School of Law has received a $2 million grant to launch an environmental law clinic, the first of several clinics planned for the new school, which will open in the fall.
The gift came from an "anonymous foundation of global reach," the law school said in a written statement.
The clinic will focus on public interest areas of environmental law and will be closely associated with the university's undergraduate program in public health.
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school, has expressed hope that law clinics and other programs at the law school would focus on areas including intellectual property, technology, environmental law and public interest law.
Last fall, the law school dropped its original name, the Donald Bren School of Law, in the interest of consistency with other law schools in the University of California system.
Bren, the billionaire chairman of the Irvine Co., a real estate development firm, gave $20 million to the law school in 2007. Last year, the school received several million dollars in fresh donations.
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