Construction
In August, new and returning students convened in the newly refurbished, electronically updated, handsomely restored Joseph W. Bartunek III Moot Court Room. The Moot Court Room is the renovated law school building soon to come: a two-tiered glass façade facing Euclid Avenue; a redesigned, redecorated dean’s suite; new classrooms and new spaces for our clinics, student organizations and faculty conferences in the ground floor of the “old library” and a new walkway bridge from the law building to the music and communications college. Already, thanks to better lighting and new and enlarged windows in the moot court, student services center and elsewhere, there is a sense of more light filtering through the building, of less isolation from the outdoors. The old, fortress-like building closed in on itself; the new law school opens outwards in an architectural gesture that is perhaps symbolic of this law school’s historic involvement with the world around, now captured in bricks and mortar. We owe this transformation to a generous gift from Mrs. Iris Wolstein in memory of her husband, the late Bert L. Wolstein ’53
