Columbia Law School Class Day will be announced soon.
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 nineteen schools, colleges, and affiliate institutions on Commencement Day. The President of the University symbolically confers degrees en masse upon all candidates.
All eligible February, May and June 2025 degree candidates, and October 2024 graduates, from all schools and colleges affiliated with Columbia University, are encouraged to participate in the celebration. You will receive information from your individual school about how to register your family and friends to join the Commencement ceremony.
PROCESSIONAL
50th Reunion Class
Graduates of the Class of 2024
Platform Party (Faculty, Senior Administrators, Speakers)
WELCOME
Tess J. Kim ’24, Graduation Committee Co-Chair
DEAN’S REMARKS
Introduced by Mubashshir Sarshar ’24 LL.M., Graduation Committee Co-Chair
Gillian Lester, Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law
STUDENT SPEAKERS
Introduced by Justin Onwenu ’24, Student Senate President
Jonathan Elliot Gliboff, J.D. Class Speaker
Sharon Matongo, LL.M. Class Speaker
PRESENTATION OF PRIZES AND AWARDS
Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Introduced by Jermel M. McClure ’24, Graduation Committee Co-Chair
Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Betts Professor of Law
Student and Faculty Prizes and Awards
Kathryn Judge, Harvey J. Goldschmid Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Intellectual Life
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Introduced by Jermel M. McClure ’24, Graduation Committee Co-Chair
Kristen Clarke ’00, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
PRESENTATION OF CLASS DONOR
Mubashshir Sarshar ’24 LL.M.
PRESENTATION OF THE CLASS OF 2024
Andrea Cristina Saavedra, ‘06, Associate Dean of Student and Registration Services
READING OF THE NAMES: DEGREE CANDIDATES OF THE CLASS OF 2024
CLOSING REMARKS
Tess J. Kim ’24
