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Giving to California Western
Opportunities for Support
California Western School of Law Priorities
Unrestricted gifts allow the law school to fund its most pressing needs. However, you may designate your gift for a specific area of support, for example: Student Scholarships, California Innocence Project, Street Law Program, Moot Court Program, Lynch Scholarship, or the Law Library.
Building the school’s permanent endowment is critical to our future success. For more information on giving a gift to fund major priorities, please contact Lori Boyle, Director, Development and Alumni Relations at (619) 515-1543 or via email at lboyle@cwsl.edu.
Endowed Professorships
Endowed Academic Professorships acknowledge the commitment and work of our most illustrious faculty members and give California Western School of Law an opportunity to attract and retain the best minds in the country.
Endowed Scholarships
Endowed Scholarships provide California Western School of Law with the opportunity to provide financial support to promising students as well as reward them for academic achievement.
Programmatic Support
California Western School of Law prides itself on its commitment to developing innovative, relevant academic programs and maintaining research centers on a variety of topics both to enhance ongoing scholarship and give students in-depth information as they train to be future lawyers. Your generosity is greatly appreciated in the development of these programs, which include: California Innocence Project, Street Law, Law Library, Proyecto ACCESSO, and the Alumni Association.
Fund Descriptions
Annual Fund
The Annual Fund provides unrestricted support to California Western for the immediate needs of the school.
Student Scholarships
California Western's scholarship program makes a legal education available to students from diverse backgrounds of experience, education, geographic and career goals. It is that diversity that makes for an intellectually vibrant law school experience.
California Innocence Project
California Western School of Law is home to the California Innocence Project. Students at California Western work to free wrongfully convicted inmates by reviewing more than 1000 claims of innocence each year and focusing on cases where there is evidence of actual innocence. Innocence Project attorneys and students then investigate cases by securing expert witnesses and advocating for their clients during evidentiary hearings and trials.
Advanced Mediation Program
The Advanced Mediation Program provides much-needed conflict resolution services to juveniles while at the same time providing law students with hands-on experience in mediation. Law students, working in pairs, mediate disputes between adolescent detainees at the San Diego Juvenile Hall and the Girls Rehabilitation Facility. The disputes range from theft of personal property to gang-related issues. California Western students help these kids adjust to the realities of their new life situations. Gifts to the Advanced Mediation Program fund are distributed to provide financial support for program expenses.
Street Law Program
The Street Law Fund supports the general operational efforts of the Street Law Program. In the Street Law Program, second and third year law students teach local high school students about the practical aspects of the law that they will need to know as teenagers and as they become adults. The program's goal is to ensure that participating students receive a thorough understanding of the law and its effect on their lives, to help them become more informed citizens and active members of the community. Approved distributions will be made until the entirety of funds, including investment gains or losses, have been distributed.
Proyecto ACCESO
Proyecto ACCESO is the Pan-American rule of law training and public education program headquartered at California Western School of Law in San Diego. Proyecto ACCESO develops curricula, facilitates workshops, and has trained over 2,500 judges, prosecutors, public defenders, justice ministry officials, law enforcement agents, and community leaders from fifteen countries in Central and South America. Working local agencies, we empower judicial innovators with a vast array of skills to promote sustainable reforms in their respective countries.
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