South Royalton

Constitutional Expert

To Address VLS Grads

Kathleen Sullivan, former dean of Stanford Law School, will deliver the keynote address at Vermont Law School's 32nd commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 19.

The public is invited to attend the ceremony, which will begin at 10:30 a.m. on the South Royalton town green. Sullivan, now a law professor at Stanford Law School, is a nationally prominent scholar and teacher of constitutional law. Author of the nation's leading casebook in constitutional law, she has published articles on federalism, religion, speech, equality, and constitutional theory.

Also an outstanding litigator, she has been named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America.

In 1999 Professor Sullivan became the first woman dean of any school at Stanford, serving until 2004.

Honorary Degrees

The ceremony will also feature the presentation of honorary degrees to Sullivan and to New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice John T. Broderick.

Another honorary degree will go to Roger Kennedy, formerly director of the National Park Service, and director emeritus of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian. Kennedy, who is now at Harvard University, will deliver a speech, "Unpacking the Nest: How to find out what any manager of land needs to know to do right by it," on Friday, May 18 at 3:30 p.m. in Oakes Hall, Room 7.