With a $6 million gift, Trustee Barry McCabe expands Loyola’s global influence at a critical time

Living with his family in southern Germany—where his military father was stationed—just after World War II, Barry McCabe had a profound experience that shaped his future.

“One day I got on a bus and went to Dachau, which was open but hadn’t yet been officially set up for visitors,” he recalls. “I was the only living person in that concentration camp. I walked around and looked into the ovens and the gas chambers. And as an 11-year-old, I thought, ‘How can this be? How can a government treat its people like that?’”

Though McCabe hadn’t yet heard the phrase, that incident sparked a deep and lifelong interest in the rule of law. A member of Loyola University Chicago’s Board of Trustees and an integral part of the School of Law’s Rule of Law for Development (PROLAW) academic program since its inception, McCabe is making a generous gift of $6 million to establish Loyola’s groundbreaking Rule of Law Institute.