The Wolf Law Building was completed in 2006. The building was constructed to the exacting standards of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) building certification, the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high-performance green buildings.
The building’s exterior architecture is faithful to the traditional style of the original campus buildings designed by Charles Klauder. In that tradition, it features horizontal local sandstone, sloping red-tile roofs, limestone trim, dovecote chimneys, and long, narrow windows for maximum natural light.
The interior design is unique, with subtle themes of the old West, including wooden beams and iron light fixtures. Etched in the limestone lintels throughout the interior are words that represent values the Law School wants to reinforce—justice, truth, liberty, equality, expansive-ness, wisdom, compassion.