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March 16th 2007 • Printer version  Class of 2007 Commencement
New location, new day of the week for celebration
Date: Saturday May 12 1 p.m.
Place: Hult Center for the Performing Arts and Hilton Hotel and Conference Center
(Parking available in two city garages next to the Hult Center and underneath
the hotel)
Address: 66 Willamette Street in downtown Eugene.
The Hon. Mme. Justice Clair L'Heureux Dubé, former justice of the Supreme
Court of Canada, will deliver the commencement speech. She grew up
speaking French and English and was the first woman from Québec
appointed to the high court.
The graduating class selected law professor Jim Mooney as
their Commencement Marshall. Mooney joined the law faculty in 1972 and
is a wildly popular mentor and teacher of contracts and American legal
history. His students' classroom traditions include an end of term
event with Latin, bishop' hats, and beer. Mooney is the Wallace and
Ellen Kaapcke Professor of Business Law.
Dubé is one of the most socially progressive justices ever to hold that
seat. Between 1987 and 2002, her judgments endorsed and defended
equality rights and spanned many areas, from family law to civil law to
employment, taxation, torts, and criminal law. Then and now, she has
been steadfast in her protection of women, children, Native peoples,
racial and sexual minorities.
At a 2002 dinner in her honor, she said, Law is not for lawyers, not for academics,
it is for people. And all people want from the law is justice. Justice without
partiality and prejudice. Justice that treats everyone as equal while taking account of differences.
-Eliza Schmidkunz
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