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GW Alum Creates Endowment for “The Professor Jonathan Turley Public Interest and Public Service Summer Fellowship”

I have the honor to announce the endowment of a new fellowship in my name. An alum of George Washington Law School’s Class of 1979 has given a gift to create  “The Professor Jonathan Turley Public Interest and Public Service Summer Fellowship.” The fellowship will support students in working with not-for-profit organizations or the government over the summer in otherwise non-paying positions.

While the donor prefers to remain anonymous, I wanted to extend our thanks for this very generous gift that will benefit our students seeking to work for the public interest.

I can think of no greater gift for an academic than to be named in an endowment that benefits our students in this way. I hold the J.B. & Maurice C. Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law and manage a summer fellowship program to fund students in working in the public interest. It has been one of the most fulfilling aspects of my work at the university. These positions are transformative for students who can put their legal training to work on a wide variety of causes, including working with those who cannot afford representation.

This endowment will be put to immediate use to help our students serve their communities and their country. I thank you on behalf of myself and my students for this generous gift.

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”

44 thoughts on “GW Alum Creates Endowment for “The Professor Jonathan Turley Public Interest and Public Service Summer Fellowship””

  1. Dennis: You speak like a true bureaucrat. “Perhaps, as the summer approaches, you can fill in the missing pieces.” Always delegating up and never taking personal responsibility to bring something productive to the table. Always kicking the can down the road and wasting time. Could you imagine a million people with your attitude trying to accomplish big things? You want information? Go find it yourself. Make your own contribution. Or, YOUR FIRED!

  5. My note of congratulations from 2 hours ago vanished somehow!
    So again I say…..how wonderful for the Professor, GW, and students……and congratulations!

  6. Lighteredknot says:
    An admirable act for an admirable person. It is amazing to me how two liberal law professors ( Jonathan Turley & Alan Dershowitz) have been straight forward with their legal analysis 2015 until present time with analysis of DT legal issues.

  11. Hera Hear!! Congratulations, Professor Turley.. Well Deserved.. !! Your Worthiness for this Great Endowment speaks in Every Word You Write Every Day.. Our hats off to this Wonderful GWU Law Alum in Appreciation for this Generous Honour bestowed on You!!

  15. Jonathan: Congratulations on you new “Summer Fellowship”. But I’m curious. Why does the GW Alum want to remain “anonymous”. Most donors to public interest law take pride in their commitment to higher ed and like recognition for their public interest work. At Harvard Law School there are a number of fellowships named after the donors–like the Edmund J. Safra Graduate Fellowships”, the “Nielan Tiruchelwan Memorial Fellowship”, etc. Same with other law schools. At my law school I had a summer fellowship (unpaid) named after a major donor to the law school. The Q is why is your benefactor hiding in the shadows? Why the secrecy?

    You also say your law students will “work for the public interest” for “not-for-profit organizations or the government over the summer in otherwise non-paying positions”. Since these are paid positions for which NGOs or government entities will your law students be assigned to work? Is it mere coincidence that the second DJT administration wants to abolish civil service positions and replace them with his “loyalists”. DJT is going to need a lot of replacement workers to fill those positions. Could it be some of your students will go to work over the summer in some DJT government agency?

    Without more information we can only speculate. Perhaps, as the summer approaches, you can fill in the missing pieces.

    1. Leave it up to Dennis to try and ruin a comment section filled with congrats and compliments for the good professor this morning.
      I add my own deep RESPECT for Professor Turley, who has the patience and dedication to accommodate free speech, even tolerating the nonsense from a few who abuse this blog for their own purposes.

      1. Lin,
        That is the difference between you and Dennis: Class. You have it. The good professor has it. Dennis does not.

      2. Nobody ever worked harder at being a festering a-hole than Dennis. It’s almost admirable. Well, not almost. Actually, not at all admirable.

    4. @Dennis McIntyre

      Dennis,

      Is there any truth to the rumor that, after your law school experience and since, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of donors that wish to remain anonymous?

      Without more information we can only speculate. Perhaps, as the autumn of your career approaches, you can fill in the missing pieces.

    5. An anonymous gift is a commandment fulfilled for its own sake, rather than done in order to obtain honor.

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