David Asper founds Centre for Constitutional Rights with $7.5 million gift

Recent alumnus David Asper (LLM '07) has made a $7.5 million gift to the law school to establish the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights.  David's gift is the largest contribution ever made by an individual to a law school in Canada. It will have a transformative effect on educational opportunities for students at our law school, and will play a vital role in articulating Canada's constitutional vision to the broader world.

Read the press release (PDF)

Read a brief biography of David Asper (PDF)

Watch the announcement of the gift at a special event held at the law school

Media coverage:

• "Asper donation will build U of T constitutional centre," National Post website, Nov. 29, 2007 
• "Charter cases get boost from new legal centre," National Post, Nov. 30, 2007 (the Winnipeg Free Press published the same story on its front page).
• "Law school gets a boost," Globe and Mail, Nov. 30, 2007