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William W. Knight Law Center

Dedicated September 15, 1999, by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the William W. Knight Law Center is the home of the University of Oregon School of Law. The 138,000 square-foot building is named after William W. Knight, a law school alumnus, former state legislator, and former publisher and president of the Oregon Journal, in recognition of a generous gift given to the building campaign by his son, Philip Knight '58, UO alumnus and chairman and CEO of Nike. This elegant and modern facility -- with eight classrooms, a 200-seat auditorium, three meeting rooms, eighty-seven offices, one moot courtroom, eight group study rooms, and ten individual study rooms -- is fully wired for computers, enabling students to download graphics and other lecture materials to their computers during class presentations. Students and faculty members have immediate access to electronic research materials. The building was declared the "most wired law school in America" by the national Computer Assisted Legal Instruction Group.