also complete specific requirements in addition to those required for the J.D. and earn a certificate indicating specialization in estate planning and trusts, family law, criminal law, intellectual property law, environmental and land use law, or U.S. law. The College offers nine-month programs leading to the LL.M. degree in taxation or international taxation as well as in U.S. law, land use, and environmental law. The LL.M. in international taxation is open to graduates of both U.S. and foreign law schools. The College of Law also offers an S.J.D in taxation. The Levin College of Law hosts six university-wide academic centers. In 1988, Law School professors Sharon Rush and Kenneth Nunn founded the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations. Staff directors and professors from across the university advise the center and collaborate with law professors to research the intersection of race and the law. The Levin College of Law also hosts the Center for Government Responsibility, the state's oldest legal and public policy research institute. Former dean and emeritus professor Jon Mills founded the center in 1972 to study Richard Nixon's cut in funding to public housing and civil rights programs. The Levin College of Law also hosts centers on Criminal Justice, Children and Families, and Estate Planning. History The College of Law was founded in 1909. It was first housed in Thomas Hall, and then in Bryan Hall from 1914 to 1969. The school excluded African Americans. Virgil D. Hawkins was denied admission because he was African American in 1948. He appealed to the Florida Supreme Court and then the U.S. Supreme Court for relief. The college finally desegregated in the wake of his fight on September 15, 1958 and admitted an African-American student, and its faculty was desegregated shortly thereafter. In 1969, the college moved to its current location in Holland Hall, which is named after the former Florida Governor, U.S. Senator, and alumnus Spessard L. Holland (LL.B. '16). Holland Hall is located in the northwest section of the university's campus. In 1984, Bruton-Geer Hall, named after the parents of alumnus Judge James D. Bruton (LL.B. '33) and his wife Quintilla Geer Bruton, was added to the law school complex. The College of Law was renamed the Levin College of Law in 1999 after prominent Pensacola trial lawyer and alumnus Fredric G. Levin (J.D. '61), who donated $10 million to the college, a sum that was