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Friday, August 26, 2011

Missouri Education Watchdog: UCLA Professor has the courage to question the moral appropriateness of a gift.

Missouri Education Watchdog: UCLA Professor has the courage to question the moral appropriateness of a gift.:

UCLA Professor has the courage to question the moral appropriateness of a gift.



Last week the New York Times reported that Lynn A. Stout, a top business law professor at UCLA Law School, wrote a letter to the University Chancellor expressing her concern that a $10 million gift to the school from former UCLA graduate and Vice President of the Milken Family Foundation, Lowell Milken, would compromise her and the school's reputation. The hefty donation created the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy. Stout, a specialist in corporate governance and moral behavior, is one of only a very few university staff who have voiced concern