O’Connor Institute to Relocate
The Sandra Day O’Connor Institute has announced that it will be relocating to the new Arizona Center for law and Society in 2016.
The O’Connor Institute will join the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in this state-of-the-art building located at Arizona State University’s Downtown Phoenix campus. The 280,000-square-foot building now under construction will feature a public law library and civic outreach center. It will also house the ASU Alumni Law Group, the nation’s first not-for-profit, privately financed teaching law firm, which employs recent ASU Law graduates to represent everyday Arizonans.
“Society at all levels, has a need to work together to solve the many challenges facing our state and nation,” stated retired United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. “I know that it is possible for people to sit down together and engage in cooperative problem solving. This is what I wan the O’Connor Institute to stand for. We can do it. The possibilities are endless.”
“To have the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute share this incredible space with the law school that bears her name is an honor and an amazing opportunity for our community and our students,” ASU Law Dean Douglas Sylvester said. “Students will benefit from understanding the institute’s mission and how their legal education can further Justice O’Connor’s tremendous legacy.”
ASU Law’s six-story structure, along with a two-story underground garage, will take up 75 percent of the block bordered by Taylor Street on the north, First Street on the west, Polk Street on the south and Second Street on the east.
“Our new home at the Arizona Center for Law and Society at ASU represents an exciting new era for the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute,” noted Sarah Suggs, O’Connor Institute president and CEO. “It will allow the O’Connor Institute to vastly increase our programming in support of our mission.”
