2007 Law Commencement Highlights
The UC Davis School of Law will award 196 Juris Doctor degrees and 20 Master of Laws degrees at the School's commencement ceremony held on May 19, 2007, at 10:30 a.m. in the ARC Pavilion on the UC Davis campus. To view the event through on demand broadcast, please click here.
Highlights for the Class of 2007 include numerous top placings in both regional and national moot court and writing competitions. In addition, students organized a number of legal symposiums and lectures featuring renowned panelists and speakers.
Students were also active in community outreach activities, including a Spring Break trip by 11 members of a new law student organization, Humanitarian Aid Legal Organization (HALO), to help rebuild and serve legal and social justice organizations in the areas devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Also over Spring Break, six Davis law students visited the U.S./Mexico border to observe and learn more about life along the border.
Class of 2007 commencement speakers include Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Kevin R. Johnson, who will deliver welcoming remarks and present the School of Law Medal to Nathan B. Sabri '07. Other speakers include Student Speaker Tarik Naber '07 and Faculty Speaker and Professor of Law Carlton Larson. Alum Gus Lee '76, best-selling author and a nationally recognized ethicist and leadership consultant, will deliver the commencement address.
In addition, this year's Order of Barristers have been announced. The Order of Barristers is a national honorary organization whose purpose is the encouragement of oral advocacy, brief writing, and leadership skills. The Order provides national recognition for graduating seniors who have excelled in advocacy and service at their respective schools.
2007 UC Davis School of Law Order of Barristers
Chad Davis Greeson
Christopher D. Hughes
Megan Elizabeth Lane
Nicholas S. Lieberknecht
Chad Mahalich
Ruby Marquez
Jack Richard McKenna
Nathan Sabri
Edward Carl Vieira-Ducey
Sarah Christine Young
Honorary member: Charity Kenyon
Speaker Bios:
Kevin R. Johnson is associate dean for academic affairs and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis. He has published extensively on immigration law and policy, racial identity, and civil rights in national and international journals. Johnson's book How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man's Search for Identity was published in 1999 and was nominated for the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He also has published Race, Civil Rights, and American Law A Multiracial Approach and Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader. Professor Johnson's latest book The "Huddled Masses" Myth Immigration and Civil Rights was published in 2004.
Carlton F.W. Larson received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of The Yale Law Journal and a co-recipient of the Benjamin Scharps Prize for best paper by a third-year student. Prior to joining the UC-Davis faculty, Larson spent three years in private practice and served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Daly Hawkins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Larson's research interests focus on constitutional law and legal history, with a strong emphasis on the eighteenth century.
Gus Lee '76 is a best-selling author and a nationally recognized ethicist and leadership consultant. Through his company, Integrenmics, Lee has spoken on integrity, courage, and leadership to numerous organizations throughout the country. He was mentored by H. Norman Schwarzkopf at West Point and Nuremberg prosecutor and Holocaust refugee Edgar Bodenheimer at the UC Davis School of Law. He says he learned from these men, as well as others, that integrity, combined with the courage to make morally and ethically right decisions, regardless of cost or difficulty, is the backbone of leadership. In addition, Lee was a drill sergeant, paratrooper, assistant dean working for low-income and minority students, JAGC command judge advocate, and legal counsel to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee's worldwide ethics Connelly Investigation. Today, Lee is a best-selling author of four novels: China Boy, Honor & Duty, Tiger's Tail, No Physical Evidence. His latest book, Courage: The Backbone of Leadership, written in collaboration with his wife, is on the essential components of leadership and how people can overcome fear to develop moral competence.
Tarik Naber '07 was elected student speaker by his fellow students. Naber is a graduate of UCLA, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He worked for two years as a legal assistant for the law firm of Lopez, Hodes, Restiano, Milman & Skikos–a firm handling pharmaceutical mass torts and products liability litigation. During law school, he was an editor of the UC Davis Law Review. After graduation, Naber will be working for a law firm in Santa Rosa.
Nathan B. Sabri '07 was awarded this year's School of Law Medal. The medal honors a graduating senior with the most distinguished academic record. Sabri did his undergraduate work at UC Irvine, earning a bachelor of science in Applied Ecology with a minor in Psychology. During his three years at UC Davis Law, Sabri was a member of the UC Davis Law Review and the editor of Environs, the UC Davis Journal of Environmental Law and Policy. He served as a teaching assistant in criminal law, was a research assistant, and was one of three first-year law students to qualify to compete in the National Trial Team, which earned the highest score in tri-state regional semifinals. He had a judicial externship during his first year in law school with the Honorable William B. Shubb. In the summer of 2006, Sabri worked as a summer associate for the prestigious law firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, where he has also been hired to work in their Litigation department after graduation.
On demand broadcast of the 2007 Commencement. Click here.
Highlights for the Class of 2007 include numerous top placings in both regional and national moot court and writing competitions. In addition, students organized a number of legal symposiums and lectures featuring renowned panelists and speakers.
Students were also active in community outreach activities, including a Spring Break trip by 11 members of a new law student organization, Humanitarian Aid Legal Organization (HALO), to help rebuild and serve legal and social justice organizations in the areas devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Also over Spring Break, six Davis law students visited the U.S./Mexico border to observe and learn more about life along the border.
Class of 2007 commencement speakers include Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Kevin R. Johnson, who will deliver welcoming remarks and present the School of Law Medal to Nathan B. Sabri '07. Other speakers include Student Speaker Tarik Naber '07 and Faculty Speaker and Professor of Law Carlton Larson. Alum Gus Lee '76, best-selling author and a nationally recognized ethicist and leadership consultant, will deliver the commencement address.
In addition, this year's Order of Barristers have been announced. The Order of Barristers is a national honorary organization whose purpose is the encouragement of oral advocacy, brief writing, and leadership skills. The Order provides national recognition for graduating seniors who have excelled in advocacy and service at their respective schools.
2007 UC Davis School of Law Order of Barristers
Chad Davis Greeson
Christopher D. Hughes
Megan Elizabeth Lane
Nicholas S. Lieberknecht
Chad Mahalich
Ruby Marquez
Jack Richard McKenna
Nathan Sabri
Edward Carl Vieira-Ducey
Sarah Christine Young
Honorary member: Charity Kenyon
Speaker Bios:
Kevin R. Johnson is associate dean for academic affairs and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis. He has published extensively on immigration law and policy, racial identity, and civil rights in national and international journals. Johnson's book How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man's Search for Identity was published in 1999 and was nominated for the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He also has published Race, Civil Rights, and American Law A Multiracial Approach and Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader. Professor Johnson's latest book The "Huddled Masses" Myth Immigration and Civil Rights was published in 2004.
Carlton F.W. Larson received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of The Yale Law Journal and a co-recipient of the Benjamin Scharps Prize for best paper by a third-year student. Prior to joining the UC-Davis faculty, Larson spent three years in private practice and served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Daly Hawkins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Larson's research interests focus on constitutional law and legal history, with a strong emphasis on the eighteenth century.
Gus Lee '76 is a best-selling author and a nationally recognized ethicist and leadership consultant. Through his company, Integrenmics, Lee has spoken on integrity, courage, and leadership to numerous organizations throughout the country. He was mentored by H. Norman Schwarzkopf at West Point and Nuremberg prosecutor and Holocaust refugee Edgar Bodenheimer at the UC Davis School of Law. He says he learned from these men, as well as others, that integrity, combined with the courage to make morally and ethically right decisions, regardless of cost or difficulty, is the backbone of leadership. In addition, Lee was a drill sergeant, paratrooper, assistant dean working for low-income and minority students, JAGC command judge advocate, and legal counsel to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee's worldwide ethics Connelly Investigation. Today, Lee is a best-selling author of four novels: China Boy, Honor & Duty, Tiger's Tail, No Physical Evidence. His latest book, Courage: The Backbone of Leadership, written in collaboration with his wife, is on the essential components of leadership and how people can overcome fear to develop moral competence.
Tarik Naber '07 was elected student speaker by his fellow students. Naber is a graduate of UCLA, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He worked for two years as a legal assistant for the law firm of Lopez, Hodes, Restiano, Milman & Skikos–a firm handling pharmaceutical mass torts and products liability litigation. During law school, he was an editor of the UC Davis Law Review. After graduation, Naber will be working for a law firm in Santa Rosa.
Nathan B. Sabri '07 was awarded this year's School of Law Medal. The medal honors a graduating senior with the most distinguished academic record. Sabri did his undergraduate work at UC Irvine, earning a bachelor of science in Applied Ecology with a minor in Psychology. During his three years at UC Davis Law, Sabri was a member of the UC Davis Law Review and the editor of Environs, the UC Davis Journal of Environmental Law and Policy. He served as a teaching assistant in criminal law, was a research assistant, and was one of three first-year law students to qualify to compete in the National Trial Team, which earned the highest score in tri-state regional semifinals. He had a judicial externship during his first year in law school with the Honorable William B. Shubb. In the summer of 2006, Sabri worked as a summer associate for the prestigious law firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, where he has also been hired to work in their Litigation department after graduation.
On demand broadcast of the 2007 Commencement. Click here.