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==Philanthropy== *[[Endowed chair|Professorial chairs]]: **[[Daryl Levinson]] is the "David Boies Professor of Law" at [[New York University School of Law]]. **$1.5 million to the [[Tulane University Law School]] to establish the "David Boies Distinguished Chair in Law". Two of Boies' children earned their law degrees at Tulane.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/uptotheminute.cfm?recid=9106&userID=0|title=Ace attorney gives Tulane 'extraordinary' $1.5M gift|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413052913/http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/uptotheminute.cfm?recid=9106&userID=0&referer=dailyUpdate|archive-date=April 13, 2009}}</ref> **A "David Boies Professor" was established at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] and is currently held by professor of history [[Kathleen M. Brown]]. The professorship is named after Boies' father, a high school teacher of government and economics. **A "David Boies Chair" at the Yale Law School was formerly held by Professor [[Robert Post (law professor)|Robert Post]] before he became dean of the law school. **David and Mary Boies endowed a chair in government at the University of Redlands, the college that David Boies attended. Arthur Svenson currently holds this chair. **Mary and David Boies also endowed a "Maurice Greenberg Chair" at the Yale Law School. *David Boies and his wife, Mary, donated $5 million to [[Northern Westchester Hospital]], in [[Mount Kisco, New York]]. Part of an ongoing capital campaign, the Boieses' money was used to build the hospital's new emergency room.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061031/NEWS02/610310314/1027/NEWS11|title="Northern Westchester Hospital gets $5 million pledge from lawyer couple" The Journal News. 10-31-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927204522/http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20061031%2FNEWS02%2F610310314%2F1027%2FNEWS11|archive-date=September 27, 2007}}</ref> David and Mary Boies also fund the "Mary and David Boies Fellowships" for foreign students at the [[Harvard Kennedy School]]. The Boieses give an annual picnic at their home for the incoming Teach for America corps for New York City (300β500 people). They support the Central European and Eurasian Law Institute (CEELI), a Prague-based institute that trains judges from newly democratized countries in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. There is a "Mary and David Boies Reading Room" at the CEELI Institute in Prague.
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