Remembering Justice Scalia, March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016

February 13 marks the fifth anniversary of the death of the Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

George Mason’s law school was named for the late Justice in October 2016. In a statement issued at the time, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said “Justice Scalia was a law teacher, public servant, legal commentator, and jurist nonpareil. As a colleague who held him in highest esteem and great affection, I miss his bright company and the stimulus he provided, his opinions ever challenging me to meet his best efforts with my own. It is a tribute altogether fitting that George Mason University’s law school will bear his name. May the funds for scholarships, faculty growth, and curricular development aid the Antonin Scalia School of Law to achieve the excellence characteristic of Justice Scalia, grand master in life and law.”

It is the law school’s honor to bear the name of Justice Scalia. As the Honorable Elena Kagan remarked at the dedication in October of 2016, “Justice Scalia will go down in history as one of the most important Supreme Court justices ever, and also as one of the greatest. His articulation of textualist and originalist principles, communicated in that distinctive, extraordinary prose, did nothing less that transform our legal culture.”