Florida Law School Named After Ben Crump, Race Lawyer Known For Cases Involving Police
View Source | February 10, 2023 9:51 am
- The naming comes as a consequence of an agreement between Crump and the university. St. Thomas agreed to name its law school after Crump after a fundraising goal of $10 million was reached for the Benjamin L. Crump Center for Social Justice, which is housed in the law school.
- “The Center will create innovative curriculum, develop implicit bias training and policies, and curate programmatic instruction modules and symposia that advance its goals,” the center’s website says.
- The Crump law school is the second law school in the United States named after an African American and the first law school named after a living black attorney.
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