Tranae Felicien is the JD Class Speaker for the Duke Law 2022 Convocation Ceremony. Felicien is a native of Castries, Saint Lucia, who was raised in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. She graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a minor in sociology. At Duke, she has served as president of the Black Law Students Association, executive editor for the Duke Law Journal, and a member of the Moot Court Board and the Law School’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. After graduation, she will work for WilmerHale in Washington, D.C.

The Distinguished Speaker for the Duke Law 2022 Convocation Ceremony is Judge J. Michelle Childs, a member of the Duke Law Master of Judicial Studies class of 2016.

Judge Childs is a judge on the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, serving in that role since 2010. In January, she was nominated by President Joe Biden to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and she was one of three judges the president considered this spring to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Arthur Adler is the LLM Class Speaker for the Duke Law 2022 Convocation Ceremony. Adler earned his law degree from Université Paris II Panthéon-Sorbonne. Before law school, he studied economics at University College London. At Duke, he worked on the Duke Law Afghan Asylum Project and served as a staff editor on the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law. After graduation, Adler is joining the New York office of a large corporate law firm.

Please join Duke Law School as we celebrate graduating students in the Class of 2022. We're proud of all the students' hard work and look forward to celebrating this milestone.

Professor Theresa Newman—the Charles S. Rhyne Clinical Professor of Law, co-founder and co-director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic, and a leader in the national innocence movement—was the distinguished speaker at the Duke Law Convocation Ceremony held on May 15, 2021 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. A longtime member of the Duke Law faculty, Newman also serves as associate director of the Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility and faculty adviser to Duke’s student-led chapter of the Innocence Project.

Enjoy this look back at some of the favorite moments for Duke Law's Class of 2021, inside and outside of the classroom. We're proud of all the students' hard work and look forward to celebrating this milestone.

Garmai Gorlorwulu '21 addressed the JD Class of 2021 at the Duke Law Convocation Ceremony held on May 15, 2021 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Garmai is from Portland, Oregon, by way of Liberia, and graduated from Stanford University with a degree in human biology with a concentration in African conflict, development, and health. At Duke, she served as the co-chair of the Womxn of Color Collective and the Coalition Against Gendered Violence.

Please join Duke Law School as we celebrate graduating JD, LLM, and SJD students in the Class of 2021 at their Convocation ceremony in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Congratulations on reaching graduation! We're proud of all the students' hard work and look forward to celebrating this milestone.

Taísa Condino LLM'21 addressed the LLM Class of 2021 at the Duke Law Convocation Ceremony held on May 15, 2021 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Taisa is from São Paulo and graduated from Mackenzie University with a dual degree in business administration and law. She also holds a master’s degree in international advocacy from ISDE in Spain and is admitted to practice law in Brazil and Portugal.

Michael Wajda ’20 hosts the Student Superlatives segment of Duke Law's Celebrating the Class of 2020 ceremony.

View a list of the graduating students in Duke Law’s Class of 2020.

Prof. Walter Dellinger was the Distinguished Class Speaker at Duke Law's Celebrating the Class of 2020 ceremony.

Karim M'ziani LLM '20 was selected by his classmates in the international law program to speak on their behalf at Duke Law's Celebrating the Class of 2020 ceremony.

Donovan Stone '20 was selected by his classmates in the JD law program to speak on their behalf at Duke Law's Celebrating the Class of 2020 ceremony.

Dean Kerry Abrams offers some opening remarks in celebration of the Duke Law Class of 2020.

Bryant D. Wright '19 was selected by his JD classmates to speak on their behalf at Duke Law's May 11 graduation ceremony in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Read the story at: https://law.duke.edu/news/convocation-2019-duncan-75-tells-grads-value-…

Judge Allyson K. Duncan ’75 of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit advised Duke Law’s 2019 graduates to keep themselves open to “inspiring challenges and discoveries” in the course of their careers when she spoke at their convocation ceremony on May 11.

Read the story at: https://law.duke.edu/news/convocation-2019-duncan-75-tells-grads-value-…

Ross Hollingworth LLM '19 was selected by his classmates in the international law program to speak on their behalf at Duke Law's May 11 convocation ceremony in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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David Shoichi Kuwabara '18 was selected by his JD classmates to speak on their behalf at Duke Law's May 12 graduation ceremony in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Justice David Collins of the High Court of New Zealand spoke on behalf of his classmates in the Master of Judicial Studies Program at Duke Law School's May 12 convocation ceremony in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Michael J. Sorrell '94 MPP '90 addressed Duke Law's Class of 2018 at their May 12 convocation ceremony in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Sorrell, the president of Paul Quinn College in Dallas, is the only two-time recipient of the HBCU Male President of the Year Award, has been named Father of the Year in the city of Dallas, and was recently named one of the world's 50 greatest leaders by Fortune magazine.

David Kryzanovsky LLM '18 was selected by his classmates in the international law program to speak on their behalf at Duke Law's May 12 convocation ceremony in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch advised the members of the Duke Law Class of 2017 to use a simple question as a guiding principle in their legal careers: “What is my responsibility to those who I may never know?”

Addressing the graduates at their hooding ceremony May 13 in Cameron Indoor Stadium, Lynch said that filtering their work through that prism will clarify “the many ways the law is ripe for growth and change, and the many ways you can be that change.”

Gabs Lucero '17 speaks to Duke Law's Class of 2017 at their hooding ceremony.

JD class speaker Lucero, newly commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army after serving in Duke University Army ROTC, said she was honored to have served with her classmates through their time at Duke Law. “I have confidence that each of us will continue to serve in some capacity — through a public interest career, pro bono work, and in our everyday lives,” said Lucero, who also received a master of public policy from the Sanford School of Public Policy.

Michelle Mansour LLM '17 offers remarks on behalf of the students graduating from Duke Law's International LLM Program. Mansour addressed the Class of 2017 during their hooding ceremony on May 13 in Cameron Indoor Stadium.