Georgetown University has announced a $30 million gift from alumnus Daniel Tsai (L’79) to fund construction of an academic building on the Georgetown University Law Center campus.

The largest-ever capital gift in the university’s history will support creation of a 200,000-square-foot state-of-the-art academic building, to be designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners—the firm founded by architect I.M. Pei, who designed the East Building of the National Gallery of Art and the pyramid entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris. The new facility will serve as the law school’s flagship building, featuring a suite to house the center’s legal clinics, 16 classroom spaces equipped with the latest technology, and a 75-seat moot courtroom, where students will be able to engage in practice arguments in a realistic courtroom setting. It also will include several different convening and outdoor spaces.

Tsai’s recent gift follows a $600,000 naming gift he made to the law center in 2020 to create the D. Tsai Endowed Scholarship Fund, which so far has provided six full-tuition scholarships for Master of Laws students.

“Going to Georgetown Law broadened my views about other cultures, which helped me greatly in my business career,” said Tsai. “The biggest thing I learned was to always stay open-minded and to observe and learn new things. I hope that this gift and the educational endeavors it will make possible will provide similar inspiration to Georgetown Law students for generations to come.”

(Photo credit: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners)