Endowment Funds
and Special Projects
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Alan Aylesworth Macnaughton Endowment for Canadian Legal
Materials - The late Senator Alan A. Macnaughton created an endowment for the
McGill Law Library, the income to be used to buy legal materials. Senator
Macnaughton was a Speaker of the House of Commons, Founder and Honorary
Chairman of the Canadian World Wildlife Fund, Counsel at Martineau Walker, and
a member of the Faculty of Law Advisory Board.
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John P. Humphrey United Nations Collection Endowment - In 2003
the Law Library received a legacy of $330,000 from the estate of John Peters
Humphrey, B.Comm.(1925), B.A.(1927), B.C.L.(1929), PhD.(1945). The endowment is
to purchase material on the United Nations, with a special emphasis on Human
Rights.
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A.H. Mettarlin Endowment
- In 1987 the Law Library received a legacy of $375,000 from the
estate of Aaron H. Mettarlin, B.C.L.(1926), a leading notary in Montreal for
over fifty years. The Mettarlin Endowment is used to purchase books and serials
relating to the basic undergraduate collection in the Law Library.
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Other Library Endowments - Annual gifts from graduates and
friends of the Faculty contribute significantly to the development of the
library collections. For example, as a 25th Anniversary Project the Class of
1969 raised funds to substantially expand the Library's network capabilities
providing greater access to a variety of information in electronic form. In
addition, the Library has received a number of special endowments over the
years which include such funds as the F. R. Scott Endowment in Constitutional
Law, the International Law Endowment Fund, the Law Library Serials Endowment,
and the Marlene and Joel King Fund for Jewish Law.
Faculty of Law—2009-2010 (last updated Mar. 31, 2010) (
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