Citing their father’s passion for justice, the underdog, the legal profession and civil rights, Michael Koskoff’s four children have announced the creation of The Michael Koskoff Endowed Scholarship for Howard University students committed to a life of public-interest advocacy.

Josh Koskoff, a partner with Bridgeport’s Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, told the Connecticut Law Tribune on Monday that, given his father’s decades-long fight for civil rights and civil justice, it was only fitting to have the scholarship benefit students of the Howard University School of Law. Howard University, which is based in Washington, D.C., is a 150-year-old private, federally chartered historically black university.