Starting next fall, the school will become the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. The name change is the result of a $30 million gift from the W.P. Carey Foundation, the largest donation in the law school’s history.
The foundation was started in 1988 by William Polk Carey, the founder of corporate real estate and financing firm W.P. Carey & Co. LLC. The school will be renamed for Carey’s grandfather, who graduated from the law school in 1880 and went on to become a name partner in Carey, Piper & Hall, which would later become DLA Piper.
