Law School Graduation
Duke University Law Professor Laura S. Underkuffler, who taught at the University of Maine School of Law as the Godfrey Distinguished Visiting Professor in the fall of 1999, will give the Commencement address at the School of Law’s graduation ceremony, which begins at 2 p.m., Saturday, May 25 in Merrill Auditorium, Portland.
The L. Kinvin Wroth Distinguished Alumni Award will be presented to Jack Montgomery who graduated in 1977. Montgomery, who is an attorney with the Portland law firm Bernstein Shur Sawyer and Nelson, gained fame this past year for photographs he took of NYC firemen, following the September 11 tragedy.
Benjamin Campo of Cumberland was selected by his peers to give a brief address representing the Class of 2002. Some 60 members of the graduating class of about 70 are expected to be present at the ceremony.
Underkuffler, who holds an L.L.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School, joined the faculty of Duke University School of Law as a professor in 1990. Her teaching interests include property, land use, federal courts, and religion and law. During 1991-92, she served as special counsel in the U.S. Senate, and was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars during 1993.
Underkuffler, who also had earned a J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law in 1978, began her legal career with a clerkship in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. She then practiced law for six years with a large Minneapolis litigation firm, where she was head of the appellate department from 1983-85. In 1983, she was appointed to the Advisory Committee for the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, where she served until 1986. She was an attorney with the Minnesota State Public Defender's office for one year before returning to Yale for graduate study in 1986.
For more information on the School of Law ceremony, call 780-4345.
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