The plan's three most expensive elements-creating new space on HLS' crowded campus, increasing the size of the faculty, and expanding financial aid, will cost a total of $235 million.
Less expensive items that can be funded under the school's existing budget, like the creation of the law colleges, will happen immediately, says Story professor of law Daniel J. Meltzer `72.
Coquillette cites a growing threat on the part of smaller law schools, which provide more attention to mid-level students, as a reason for haste.
"If we can't assure a quality legal education for the average JD student, I'd say go to Stanford or Yale," Coquillette says.
The scope of the upcoming capital campaign, which Dean for Development Scott G. Nichols says is in still in the planning stages, is unprecedented.
"This would be one of the biggest if not the biggest capital campaign ever among graduate schools or professional schools in the country," Nichols says. "Its very sobering."
The probability of not raising the requisite funds to carry out even the most expensive parts of the plan, Nichols says, is "remote."
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