Issue 73 - Stanford Lawyer - Stanford University

GRADUATION 2005
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STANFORD
LAWYER
Robert L. Rabin, A. Calder Mackay Professor of Law, and
Michele Landis Dauber, associate professor of law and Bernard
D. Bergreen Faculty Scholar, enjoy a relaxing moment before the
graduation ceremony.
Shirin Ebadi (right), winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and featured speaker at graduation,
took time to talk with graduates, family, and friends. (Left to right) Julie Wilson,
doctoral student at Stanford University School of Education, Gitanjli Duggal LLM ’05,
Mineko Mohri LLM ’05, and Protima Pande, a friend of Duggal’s.
Dean, who told the graduates, “Law is a powerful tool, used for good, used for
ill, and sometimes used with indifference. We hope that we have helped you
see the difference between those uses. . . . Set high goals for yourself. We need
great lawyers to solve tomorrow’s problems. Go out there and do the impossible
because you can. And go out there and live great lives.”
Also speaking at the ceremony was Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel
Peace Prize. Ebadi, an Iranian human rights lawyer, was awarded the 2005
Jackson H. Ralston Prize in International Law by the law school. The prize is
awarded for distinguished contributions to the establishment of international
peace and justice through arbitration, diplomacy, the peaceful settlement of disputes,
and the promotion of world order. Past recipients include Jimmy Carter,
former president of the United States, and Václav Havel, former president of
the Czech Republic and leader of the Velvet Revolution.
Ebadi urged the newly minted Stanford lawyers to use their education
and professional skills to promote human rights. “I see a world free of poverty,
discrimination, violence, war, ignorance, and oppression,” Ebadi told the
assembled crowd of some 1,600 friends and family. “I hope we can deliver a
world in a better form than what was delivered to us by our fathers.” (See p.
12 for an extended interview with Ebadi about Iran, Islam, and United States
policy in Iran.)
Among those who participated in the ceremony were 167 candidates for the
degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence
(JD); 18 for the degree of Master
of Laws (LLM), with 8 focusing
on corporate law and business and
10 focusing on law, science, and
technology; 12 for the degree of
the Master of the Science of Law
(JSM); and 4 for the degree of the
Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD).
—Judith Romero
Robert Weisberg ’79, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr.
Professor of Law (above), the winner of the
John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in
Teaching, addresses the Class of 2005.
Miguel A. Méndez, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of
Law (right), talks with Raul Torrez ’05 (center) and
his father, Presiliano Torrez, assistant U.S. attorney
in New Mexico, at the dean’s reception the evening
before graduation.