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Say Hello To This Gigantic, Lifelike Sculpture Of Justice Antonin Scalia

He'll be greeting law students at George Mason for decades to come.

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(Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trademark double Windsor, with a perfect dimple in the middle.

— John F. Scalia, third son of the late Justice Antonin Scalia and senior counsel at Pillsbury, commenting on the 8½ foot, bronze sculpture of his father that now stands in the center of the atrium of the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School. Scalia wore one of his father’s robes and posed for sculptor Greg Wyatt to help him personalize the near-replica statue of the justice. When the final sculpture was unveiled, Scalia said it “gave him chills” because all the correct details were there, right down to the way his father wore his tie. Five Supreme Court justices — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., Elena Kagan, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch — attended the unveiling ceremony at the school.

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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