The University of Chicago Law School has received a $3.5 million donation from the family of alumnus Donald Pritzker, founder and former president of the Hyatt Corp. hotel chain.

The money will endow a Donald N. Pritzker Professorship in Law for a faculty member with expertise in business law, technology, entrepreneurship and intellectual property.

Pritzker graduated from the law school in 1959. He died in 1972.