Santa Clara University School of Law Commencement 2021
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SCHOOL2021 OF LAW COMMENCEMENT Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam The Jesuit Ideal of Serving Others In its One Hundred Seventieth Year SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY School of Law Commencement May Twenty-Second Two Thousand and Twenty-One Santa Clara University School of Law Founded 1911 C7 '\ ''. j ,' '·' SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY EDUCATING CITIZENS AND LEADERS WHO WILL BUILD A MORE HUMANE, JUST, AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD. iiiiR THE SANTA CLARA HERITAGE n January 12, 1777, six months formerly of the Oregon mission territory, In that same year, the School of after the signing of the Declaration to open a college at Mission Santa Clara. Engineering was founded, and courses Oof Independence, two Franciscan The property was transferred to the in the humanities and sciences were padres, Tomás de la Peña and José Jesuit order and classes began on March expanded. Responding to urban growth Antonio Murguia, founded the eighth of 19, 1851. Thus, Santa Clara became in the Santa Clara Valley, the University California’s original 21 missions along the first institution of higher learning in established a School of Business in the banks of the Rio Guadalupe. Mission the state of California. During its first 1926. Today, Santa Clara University Santa Clara de Asís, as they named it, complete academic year, 1851–52, consists of the College of Arts and served as a spiritual center and school Father Nobili and a few Jesuits and lay Sciences, the Jesuit School of Theology, for the Indians and early settlers. Besides teachers offered instruction in reading, the Leavey School of Business, and providing religious instruction for both writing, and foreign languages. Santa the Schools of Law, Engineering, and men and women, the Franciscans taught Clara College, opening its doors with Education and Counseling Psychology. the men stock raising, farming, and the 12 students, taught approximately building trades; the young girls, weaving 40 students during its first year. The Board of Trustees has voted to and sewing; the boys, reading, music, limit the size of the undergraduate and religious drama. In 1854, the Jesuit Province of population, an action intended to Turin, Italy, adopted California as its preserve the character and ensure Three times in the early years— permanent mission field, marking a the quality of the University for twice after foods and once after an turning point in Santa Clara’s history. generations to come. Today, Santa earthquake—the mission moved to As a consequence, the Jesuits of Turin Clara enrolls approximately 5,500 safer ground. The fourth mission, built provided the college with the faculty and undergraduate students and 3,500 in 1819, was remodeled and expanded support it needed to grow. The following graduate students. Since 1960, the in 1825. The present Adobe Lodge and year, Santa Clara College received a number of courses taught has more the Adobe Wall are all that remain of Charter of Incorporation from the state than doubled, and opportunities for the 1825 mission. The present Mission of California. individual study have proliferated. Church, an enlarged replica of the 1825 Santa Clara University continues church, was completed in 1928 after a Slow and steady growth followed, its mission of service by helping its fire destroyed the previous structure. and distinguished graduates became students become well-balanced prominent members of California life. human beings through an education In 1850, the new bishop of San In 1912, a year after the School of that emphasizes both humanistic Francisco, Joseph S. Alemany, asked Law was founded, Santa Clara College values and professional competence. Jesuits Michael Accolti and John Nobili, became Santa Clara University. 4 SCHOOL OF LAW COMMENCEMENT 2021 SCHOOL OF LAW: A BRIEF HISTORY 1911–2021 n 1911, Santa Clara College Santa Clara Legal Aid Society. In centennial celebration, and he created a small evening program 1963, the Heafey Law Library opened, expanded opportunities for experiential Icalled the Institute of Law, funded by SCU graduate Edwin A. learning by more than doubling serving just a handful of students. Heafey Sr. By 1967, the School’s 150 externship placements and creating As part of Santa Clara College, the students worked toward J.D. degrees the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic, Law School was grounded in the Jesuit rather than LL.Bs. International Human Rights Clinic, values of competence, conscience, Dean George J. Alexander (1970–85) and Entrepreneurs’ Law Clinic. In and compassion. helped lead the School to national 2004, the School was admitted to the In 1914, the frst graduating class prominence. Bannan Hall opened prestigious Order of the Coif. of 14 young men earned their LL.Bs and enrollment tripled. In 1974, the Dean Lisa A. Kloppenberg (2013–19) from the Institute of Law. The fedgling School launched its frst summer spearheaded a strategic process school faced challenges as it grew. In abroad program, and it offered its frst to make the School responsive to 1926, a fre destroyed the old Mission intellectual property (IP) classes in Church and threatened the law library. the late 1970s. In 1985, the School changes in the legal profession Students rushed to save the books, launched the Santa Clara Computer and move toward a curriculum with but many publications were lost. & High Technology Law Journal. more opportunities for students to develop practical lawyering skills while During the tenure of Dean Gerald F. Dean Edward J. Owens (1933–53) encouraging more engagement with Uelmen (1986–93), student body helped make the School one of the Silicon Valley. Under her leadership, diversity jumped 30 percent and fnest small law schools in the country. the Law School relocated to its new The school attained accreditation from faculty diversity increased by 25 home in 2018: the Howard S. and the American Bar Association in 1937. percent. In 1993, the East San Jose Community Law Center opened to Alida S. Charney Hall of Law. World War II brought about dramatic help day laborers. Interim Dean Anna M. Han (2019– change. From 1943 to 1945, the Law present) is the second woman to School closed, and after the war, the Dean Mack A. Player (1994–2003) lead the School and one of the frst school grew with an infux of veterans. oversaw the Law School’s technology boom in the center of Silicon Valley, Asian-Americans to serve as dean The Law School admitted students of with the new High Tech Law Institute of an ABA-accredited law school. color in the 1940s and women in the and an LL.M. in IP, the frst of its kind During her service, the School greatly 1950s, and the makeup of the student on the West Coast. The School’s social expanded its Privacy Law program, body began to better refect the justice commitment also expanded thanks to major gifts from three country’s population. The frst African- with the addition of the Center for current and former SCU Trustees. Han American student graduated in 1952, Social Justice and Public Service and has managed the transition to virtual and the frst three women graduated the Northern California Innocence learning, preserving a critical sense of in 1963. Project. community throughout the pandemic. Dean Leo A. Huard (1959–69) and Dean Donald J. Polden (2003–13) She is thankful for all of the support the law school helped establish the oversaw the School’s successful she has received during her tenure. 5 SCHOOL OF LAW COMMENCEMENT 2021 THE ACADEMIC TRADITION ttire: The colorful attire worn The Gown: Each degree has its own with which the hood is lined are by the graduates, faculty, and style. The bachelor’s gown is a yoked, those of the college or university A officers of the University on closed-front garment, with long, granting the degree. For example, the occasion of commencement pointed sleeves. The master’s gown Santa Clara University has a partipar exercises has roots in medieval is cut to be worn with open or closed hood with cardinal and white. The times. Dressed in cap and gown, front; its sleeves are long and are velvet binding of the hood varies in the graduates and their professors either open or closed, but slit just different width for bachelor, master, form part of a long tradition above the elbow to allow the forearm or doctor, and its color indicates the that dates back to Europe’s first to protrude. The gown of the doctor is area of study within the university universities: to Paris and Bologna, also worn open or closed and has full, granting the degree: dark blue for to Oxford and Salamanca. bell-shaped sleeves. Only the doctor’s philosophy (Ph.D.); light blue for gown is trimmed with velvet panels education (Ed.D.); white for arts The origins of the several parts of the down the front and three velvet bars and letters (Litt.D.); golden yellow academic garb are not readily known. on each sleeve. While black velvet is for sciences (Sc.D.); orange for Since medieval students enjoyed the the trimming for all doctor’s gowns, engineering (Eng.D., DCE); purple status of clerics during their univer- other colors of velvet trimming are for law (LL.M., DCL, J.D., JUD, JCD); sity years, it is most probable that used to identify the major area of drab (brown) for business (DBA, their attire was fashioned after the study. Purple trim is used for law. Ph.D.); and scarlet for theology clerical dress of the time. The gown (STD, D.D.). seems to be an adaptation of the robe The Hood: At first, the hood seems of the friar or priest, and the hood to have been worn over the head The Cap: The mortarboard cap is resembles the monk’s or friar’s cowl.