Duke Law School has snagged a $5 million grant to boost its number of faculty, with plans to attract an equal amount from donor matching gifts.

On Monday, the law school announced that it would use the grant from the Duke Endowment for a matching gift challenge called the Duke Law Faculty Endowment Challenge. The challenge will pair donors' gifts earmarked for new endowed faculty chair positions, professor or clinical professor roles with an equal amount of money from the fund.

The school hopes to endow up to six new faculty positions within the next two years, boosting its faculty ranks by about 9 percent. Duke Law currently has about 65 governing, clinical and research faculty, said Dean David Levi. If the matching funds endow posts solely within the schools' clinics, that would swell the clinical faculty ranks by 40 percent, from 15 to 21 positions, he said.