It’s an awesome, generous donation. But Yale or Harvard would never do this. We should be moving away from Northwestern and more toward Harvard and Yale.
— M. Kelly Tillery, a 1979 graduate of Penn Law who works as a partner at Pepper Hamilton, commenting on the University of Pennsylvania law school’s name change to Carey Law after a $125 million donation from the W.P. Carey Foundation. Thousands of students and alumni have signed a petition asking that the school maintain its Penn Law branding. Click here if you’d like to add your name.
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