Sol Goldman Courtyard Dedication Held April 4

The Yale Law School courtyard has been named in honor of Sol Goldman in recognition of the Goldman family’s long and unwavering philanthropic support of Yale.

In a ceremony in the Ruttenberg Dining Hall on April 4, Dean Robert C. Post ’77 noted, “The legacy of the Goldman family touches every part of the Yale Law School community, as well as the broader university.” 

Jane Goldman recently enabled the creation of the Sol Goldman Loan Repayment endowment and the Sol Goldman Rights and Justice Fund, two endowments named for her father. Both funds will support former Lillian Goldman Scholarship recipients as well as other alumni participating in COAP. The Rights and Justice Fund is reserved for COAP recipients working in the field of human and civil rights law and advocacy.

Jane’s mother Lillian, who died in 2002, was a longtime champion of the Law School. In addition to the gift from the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust and Sol Goldman Charitable Trust that endowed the deanship of the School, the Goldman family supported the renovation of the library in the 1990s. The library is now named the Lillian Goldman Law Library in Memory of Sol Goldman. Lillian Goldman also funded the Early Learning Center, an on-campus daycare for the children of the Law School community. The Lillian Goldman Perpetual Scholarship Fund, which was established in 1993, has offered scholarship support to more than two hundred students.

Jane Goldman established the Goldman Family Fund for Children and Law Professorship and the Goldman Family Fund for Children, Families and Law Clinic. These gifts create permanent support for all Yale Law School clinical activities related to children, families and the law, including those under the umbrella of the Advocacy for Children and Youth Clinic. Additionally, Jane created the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law, which is presently held by Jean Koh Peters, an expert in children, families, and the law. Professor Peters currently supervises students representing clients in the Sol and Lillian Goldman Family Advocacy for Children and Youth Clinic and the Immigration Legal Services Clinic.