ANN ARBOR—Robert and Ann Aikens have made a $10 million gift to the University of Michigan Law School for the school’s ongoing building expansion and renovation project.

Robert Aikens of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., is chairman of Robert B. Aikens & Associates L.L.C., a commercial real estate development and management firm based in suburban Detroit, and a 1954 alumnus of the Law School. The gift is the largest ever made to the Law School by a living donor.

The Aikens’ gift will help fund construction that expands instructional space at the historic Law Quadrangle for the first time since the school’s main classroom building opened in 1933. The $102 million project, for which ground was broken in September, includes a new Law School Commons adjacent to existing Law School buildings, and a new four-story academic building across Monroe Street south of the Quadrangle.

In recognition of the Aikens’ extraordinary generosity, the Law School will name the new commons the Robert B. Aikens Commons. Blending contemporary and traditional architecture, the two-story, 16,000-square-foot space will have a glass roof that affords views of the surrounding stone walls. The Aikens Commons, which will include group study spaces, gathering spots for faculty and students, a caf