20 U.S.C. § 4516 : US Code - Section 4516: Constitutional Law Resource Centers

Search 20 U.S.C. § 4516 : US Code - Section 4516: Constitutional Law Resource Centers

(a) Establishment
It is the purpose of this section to establish four centers where
nationally recognized distinguished experts in Constitutional law
will produce, on a periodic basis, articles of current interest
relating to the Constitution of the United States which are
suitable for use by James Madison scholars, educational
institutions, law school reviews, bar associations, and the news
media.
(b) Endowments
In order to encourage recipient universities to provide such a
continuing service, four endowments shall be established with funds
from appropriations provided herein and such other amounts as may
be contributed from other sources.
(c) Chair for Professor of Constitutional Law
The income from each endowment shall be used to help support a
chair for a Professor of Constitutional law.(!1) Each endowment
shall be held in trust with the income from the portion provided
herein used exclusively to contribute toward the salary and related
costs of the professor filling the chair and for services directly
related to the support of such professor such as secretarial and
research services. The recipient university shall from sources
other than that portion of the endowment funded herein furnish the
office, classroom and related services suitable to such a member of
the faculty.
The professor holding each chair shall file a copy of such
articles with the Library of Congress, which shall make them
available to libraries in the usual manner and the recipient of the
endowment shall also make a copy available upon request by
accredited educational institutions, bar associations, and general
news media without royalty or charge other than the costs
associated with printing or reprinting, handling and distribution.
(d) Investment of endowment
That portion of each endowment provided by this chapter (!2) and
any accumulations attributable to such grant shall be invested by
the recipient university in interest bearing obligations of the
United States or in obligations guaranteed both as to principal and
interest by the United States and shall be subject to audit by the
Government Accountability Office for the sole purpose of
determining that such funds are accounted for or have been used as
provided herein. If a grantee university elects to discontinue such
chair and support services, the corpus of the endowment
attributable to the Federal grant shall revert to the Treasury of
the United States.
(e) Application for grant of endowment
The application for the grant for an endowment shall require only
such information and supporting material as is reasonably necessary
to assure that the funds will be used for the purposes described
herein. Acceptance of the grant by each university shall constitute
an agreement and obligation of that university to fulfill the
obligations set forth in this section.
(f) Amount of grant of endowment; recipients of offer
The grants for each endowment shall be for $800,000 and shall be
offered to Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C.,
Drake University School of Law in Des Moines, Iowa, the University
of Akron School of Law in Akron, Ohio, and the University of South
Carolina School of Law at Columbia, South Carolina.