With several law schools returning to in-person commencement ceremonies this year, numerous high-profile individuals have been enlisted to address the graduating students, a stark contrast to the virtual format of pandemic times. Above the Law reports indetail about this trend and their active role in tracking these speakers annually.
Noteworthy among these speakers at the U.S. News T14 law schools are:
- Former head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, Christopher H. Schroeder – Duke
- New York Times legal correspondent, Adam Liptak – Penn
- Vice president and chief administrative officer for the NFL, Dasha Smith – UVA
- U.S. Assistant Attorney General, head of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, Kristen Clarke – Columbia
- Former chief legal officer and head of compliance, policy, trust and safety at Twitter, Vijaya Gadde – NYU
- Judge Jeffrey Cummings of the Northern District of Illinois – Northwestern
- Executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, Michele Roberts – UC Berkeley
- Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Californa, and president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Mariano-Florention (Tino) Cuéllar – UCLA
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