We look forward to celebrating Graduation 2025 with you at Columbia Law School’s Class Day on Sunday, May 18. Watch the livestream of the ceremony, beginning at 4:15 p.m. EDT.
The Law School Class Day ceremony will take place on the South Lawn, in front of Butler Library, here on our Morningside Heights campus. University gates will open for the Law School at 3:15 p.m. Our ceremony is scheduled to begin at 4:15 p.m. and end at 6:30 p.m. At this ceremony, each J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., and E.LL.M. graduate’s name is read as they process across the stage in graduation regalia, celebrated by faculty, administration, classmates, family, and friends. This ceremony is exclusively for the Law School community and our guests.
Columbia University’s Commencement ceremony for the 271st academic year will take place on May 21, 2025. This time-honored tradition celebrates the graduates from Columbia’s 19 schools, colleges, and affiliate institutions on Commencement Day. The president of the university symbolically confers degrees en masse upon all candidates.
