Robert Rasmussen, '85 on giving back because the law school benefits everyone in legal education

I contribute to the Law School for two reasons. The first is to pay interest on the moral debt I incurred in my three years there. The education I received changed my life. The training and the passion that the Law School instilled in me led me to pursue a career in legal academia. It is a wonderful vocation; it is a continuation of the learning process that started in Hyde Park. The second is that the Law School occupies a unique place in legal education. Its commitment to ideas and its spirit of open inquiry benefit all of us in the academy. My work as a scholar is guided as much as by what the Law School is today as it is by what the School was 20 years ago when I graduated. Everyone in legal education, regardless of what law school they attended, benefits from the Law School and what it stands for.

Robert Rasmussen, '85