Law School graduates class
of 2000
"If lawyers didn't
exist, we'd have to invent them," Law School Dean
Kathleen Sullivan told the students who participated in
the Law School's graduation Sunday.
Sullivan, the Richard E.
Lang Professor and Dean and Stanley Morrison Professor of
Law, told the graduates that in a nation as vast, diverse
and democratic as the United States, "we cannot
depend on markets, morals or social custom alone" to
structure human relationships. Rather, she said, we need
lawyers to "create, apply and enforce the rules and
procedures that help us anticipate, prevent and manage
conflict."
After exams are scored and
final grades are recorded, 184 students will receive the
degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD), 19 will receive
the Master of the Science of Law (JSM) and 6 will have
earned the Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD). The Law
School graduation is held before the university
commencement ceremony because it operates on a semester
system that ends earlier than the quarter system.
Other speakers at Sunday's
ceremony included Class of 2000 co-presidents Leah Dell
Williams and Robert Richard Long IV, and law Professor
Barbara H. Fried, the Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar,
who was elected by the graduating students to receive the
2000 John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in
Teaching. Fried also received the award in 1991.
Fried advised the students
that "life is short and dear. Don't throw it away on
things that don't matter. Most people in this world don't
have the choice to do what matters to them. Most of you
do. So, make up your minds what you want to do and do it.
You have great talents, all of you; try to match them
with desire."
The ceremony was followed
by a buffet luncheon for graduates and guests.
Approximately 1,300 people attended the event. Graduates
and their families and guests also enjoyed a dinner
reception at the Cantor Arts Center the evening before
graduation. SR
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