Rick and Marcy Horvitz

Rick Horvitz ’78 has underwritten the Program in Public Law since 1998, and credits his late wife Marcy for urging him to fund the Program. Horvitz is convinced that a top-rated law school ought to have an outstanding constitutional law program. He cites his constitutional law class with William Van Alstyne as inspiring his fascination with the subject: “When I was in law school, constitutional law was the most elevating of all the areas of law–I felt it was the ‘crown jewel’ of my legal education.” Horvitz has also helped to endow a professorship in constitutional law, and started the Fund for Faculty Excellence at Duke Law.