The building expansion and renovation will help meet our need for more and different kinds of spaces to complement the beautiful Law Quadrangle.

A new four-story, 100,000-square-foot building (about the size of Hutchins Hall), to be built across Monroe Street south of the Quad, will house classrooms of various sizes, the legal clinics, student services, multipurpose spaces, and faculty and staff offices. Like the other Quad buildings, the new structure will be clad in stone and roofed in slate.

A new 16,000-square-foot Law School Commons will become the vibrant new heart of the entire Quad. The two-level Commons, to be built in a currently unused grassy area between Hutchins and the Legal Research Building, will feature a glass roof and picturesque views of the surrounding stone walls.

Additionally, the metal siding on Legal Research will be reclad with a stone facing

The architect is Hartman-Cox Architects of Washington, D.C., whose extensive portfolio includes many Collegiate Gothic buildings, working in association with Integrated Design Solutions of Troy, Michigan, who have worked on many buildings on the University of Michigan campus.

The project cost is $99 million for the building and Commons, and an additional $3 million for the recladding. Of this total, $70 million must come from private support.

We broke ground for the project during the Sesquicentennial Celebration weekend September 10-13, 2009. Help celebrate the anniversary with a gift to the building fund.  Contact Bev Royal at bkearns@umich.edu or call (734) 615-4505.