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Support for scholarships ensures that qualified students, regardless of financial resources, can take full advantage of a GW Law education. Student aid helps reduce the loan burdens of GW Law graduates so that the cost of their education will not limit their ability to make their mark on the world, no matter their area of study or professional path.

The Dean’s Fund provides crucial support for GW Law’s greatest needs. Contributions to the Dean’s Fund enable us to enhance student and faculty support, bolster student placement services, invite renowned guest speakers, enhance student networking opportunities, and bolster other law school programs.

GW’s Health Law & Policy Program is designed to enable students to take maximum advantage of GW's unique location in the nation's capital. Key survey courses and seminars emphasize the crucial role the law plays in the design and operation of the U.S. health care and public health systems. This fund supports the Health Law & Policy Program's ability to help students learn about the complex structure of the federal regulatory process, the relationship between federal and state health system regulation, and the relationship between federal regulation and industry stakeholders.

This fund allows GW Law’s National Security, Cybersecurity, and Foreign Relations Law Program to provide courses and host events on cutting-edge topics reflecting current legal issues involved in the federal government's foreign relations powers, and the U.S. law of national security and counterterrorism, as well as the law regarding securing the critical cyber infrastructure and data protection and related threats and breaches.

A 50th-anniversary fundraising effort to provide scholarship support to students interested in the practice of environmental or energy law and to provide funding for innovative new programming that will allow GW to build on its leadership role in environmental and energy law education.

The EK Gubin Fund supports a full-time tenured faculty member who teaches and engages in scholarship related to Federal Procurement Law.

This scholarship honors Murray J. Schooner, MA '74, a well-known figure in the government contracting community and father of GW Law's Nash & Cibinic Professor of Government Procurement Law, Steven L. Schooner, LLM '89. Throughout his career, Murray championed small and disadvantaged business contracting programs, with a focus on minority, women-owned, and veteran-owned small businesses.

Judge Burg graduated first in her GW Law class in 1950, the first woman to ever do so. She was also the first woman appointed an administrative judge at the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, and despite objection from officials within the Department of Defense, she was the first woman chair of the American Bar Association Section of Public Contract Law. This endowment honors Judge Burg's extraordinary career, exemplary leadership, extensive efforts to mentor female attorneys and encourage her male counterparts to expand opportunities for women, and her generosity to the law school.

This scholarship fund was established by the family, friends, and colleagues of the late Prof. Dmitry Karshtedt. The fund was created to keep Prof. Dmitry Karshtedt's name and legacy echoing through the Law School for years to come and support students in the Law School's Intellectual Property Law program.

GW Law has been a leader in intellectual property education and scholarship for more than a hundred years. Our Intellectual Property & Technology Law Program has well-rounded expertise in patent law with complementary strengths in copyright, trademark, communications, computer and internet regulation, electronic commerce, and genetics and medicine. This fund supports the IP Program's ability to provide expertise and deliver innovative curriculum, which in turn sets our students up for success in the intellectual property and technology law field.

Established by Charles A. Hobbs in 1999, this endowed scholarship provides financial assistance to qualified American Indian or Alaska-Native Juris Doctor degree candidates enrolled in the law school. This award is for any student who is a member of a federally recognized Indian tribe or a student with natural parents or grandparents who are/were members of a federally recognized tribe. Charles A. Hobbs (1928-2017) received his JD from GW Law in 1957 and dedicated his professional career towards working with American Indian tribes and organizations. He acted as lead attorney on several landmark Indian law cases.

This fund will provide a need-based scholarship for a student at GW Law with preference given to active members of the Hispanic Law Student Association or students who have a demonstrated interest in Hispanic history and culture. / The mission of Latinx is to develop a vibrant network of Latinx alumni and students; to support the members’ academic and professional development; and to promote the recruitment and advancement of Latinx students, faculty, and staff at GW Law.

Established by Charles A. Hobbs in 1999, this endowed scholarship provides financial assistance to qualified American Indian or Alaska-Native Juris Doctor degree candidates enrolled in the law school. This award is for any student who is a member of a federally recognized Indian tribe or a student with natural parents or grandparents who are/were members of a federally recognized tribe. Charles A. Hobbs (1928-2017) received his JD from GW Law in 1957 and dedicated his professional career towards working with American Indian tribes and organizations. He acted as lead attorney on several landmark Indian law cases.

Established in 2003 by friends, family, and colleagues of Former Dean John S. Jenkins, JD ’61, to support scholarships for law students who have prior or current military service.

A child of the Holocaust who became a world leader in the pursuit of justice, Judge Buergenthal co-authored the first international human rights law textbook in the United States and is the author of more than 20 books on human rights. In 2008, he was the co-recipient of the 2008 Gruber Prize for Justice for his contributions to the promotion and protection of human rights; upon receiving the award, he established a scholarship fund to support law students. Thomas Buergenthal Scholarships are awarded to foreign LL.M. students based on academic merit and financial need.

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