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Since 2007, the Global Justice Program has advanced initiatives in international human rights and religious freedom, advancement of the rule of law, and global development. The Global Justice Program, now named the Sudreau Global Justice Program, will not only support and enhance current programs, but will bring new and innovative programs that will help those experiencing injustice all over the world.
“We hare humbled by Laure’s generosity and confidence in the law school,” said School of Law Dean Paul Caron. “This gift will empower us to expand our important work bringing justice to those around the globe who desperately need the legal assistance of our students, alumni, and faculty.”
Global Justice Program Director Prof. Jim Gash said, “Laure’s leadership gift will bring hope to literally tens of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people in need of access to justice. I am honored to lead an organization that proudly bears her name.”
The gift will establish the Sudreau Fellow program, which will provide recent Pepperdine Law grads the opportunity to work and live in Uganda for a year, helping to manage partnership projects between the Sudreau Global Justice Program and the Ugandan Judiciary.
“The world law students are entering is no longer about people being the center of things,” Sudreau said. “It is a world that is about community. I am so proud to be associated with this effort and all of the important work the Sudreau Global Justice Program does on behalf of people in the developing world.
The world is in great need of this kind of outreach. The endowment will also help to enhance current global justice courses led by human rights and human trafficking experts on the challenges faced by people in the developing world and the efforts to address those issues.
Sudreau has a history of making generous donations to Pepperdine. In 2011, she donated $3 million to the Campaign for Pepperdine to establish the Laure Sudreau-Rippe Endowed Chair at the School of Law.
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