UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW
BREAKS GROUND FOR NEW LAW COMPLEX

 	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 25 -- The University of Virginia
School of Law will break ground on its $25 million Law Grounds
construction project on Saturday, May 6, at 11 a.m. in the
Law-Darden courtyard at 580 Massie Road.
	The ceremony will take place during the school's annual
alumni weekend, which will be attended by more than 250 law school
alumni. U.Va. rector Hovey S. Dabney, president John T. Casteen III,
law school dean Robert E. Scott, and capital campaign executive
committee chair Mortimer M. Caplin will speak at the ceremony. For
the actual breaking of ground, the speakers will be joined by donors
who have contributed $1 million or more to the law school's capital
campaign. (The speakers and Adam Gross, a principal of the Baltimore
architectural firm of Ayers/Saint/Gross, will be available for
questions after the ceremony.)
	The Law Grounds project will create state-of-the-art
facilities by linking the current law school and the current Darden
graduate business school building with new structures at the north
and south. The resulting quadrangle will provide the necessary space
for new law facilities, including an expanded library, classrooms,
student spaces, courtrooms and a 100- terminal computer laboratory.
A tree-lined lawn will stretch from the new south entrance to Massie
Road, forming an entry to the Law Grounds reminiscent of Thomas
Jefferson's Lawn on the University's central Grounds.
	Construction has already begun on a new visitors' parking
lot that will more than triple the available spaces. Renovation of
the Darden building will begin at the end of December when it is
vacated by the Darden School. The Law Grounds project is expected to
be completed in December 1997.
	The Law Grounds project is part of the law school's $75
million capital campaign, which has raised nearly 60 percent of its
goal since beginning in mid-1992.
	The University of Virginia School of Law, founded by Thomas
Jefferson in 1826, is the highest-rated public law school in the
nation, according to the most recent rankings in U.S. News and World
Report. The law school includes approximately 1,200 students, 59
full-time professors, and more than 50 adjunct faculty and
administrators from private practice, federal and state government,
and the judiciary.
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April 25, 1995
	For more information, contact Marion Kingdon at (804)
924-4678.