Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law has received nearly $5 million in gifts to expand the Carter G. Phillips Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Center’s programs.
The funds will be used for Supreme Court programming and related events across the school, as well as the center’s two clinics.
At the newly named Carter G. Phillips/Sidley Austin LLP Supreme Court Clinic, students work under the direction of faculty members who have collectively argued nearly 100 cases before the Supreme Court.
At the Federal Appellate Clinic, students research, brief and argue cases in federal appellate courts across the country.
Inspired by major contributions from Northwestern Law alums Sue Henry (J.D. ’77), Carter Phillips (J.D. ’77), Jessica Phillips (J.D. ’06) and the Sidley Austin Foundation, more than 50 friends, family and colleagues contributed to the donation in honor of Carter Phillips’ career and contributions to the legal profession as one of the most influential and successful Supreme Court and appellate litigators in the country.
Carter Phillips currently serves as an adjunct professor at Northwestern Pritzker Law and has been director of the Supreme Court Clinic since its founding.
The Carter G. Phillips Center for Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy has been a core part of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Bluhm Legal Clinic for nearly 20 years.
The center, directed by Professor Danielle Hamilton and operated in partnership with attorneys from Sidley Austin LLP, serves the Northwestern Pritzker Law community and the general public through three primary avenues: two year-long clinical courses; a moot program; and a variety of research, policy and other events for the Northwestern Pritzker Law community.
This includes supervising students pursuing an Appellate Concentration; inviting guest speakers to Chicago, including Justices of the Supreme Court; and publishing relevant scholarship in law reviews.
