TO THE MEMBERS, FRIENDS, AND FAMILIES OF THE CLASS OF 2019: Congratulations to the Class of 2019, which today joins a distinguished group of Stanford Law graduates whose history stretches back to 1893 when the fledgling Stanford University began its program in law. It is my honor to uphold Stanford’s tradition of excellence, which began that year when the university started teaching law and recruited its first law professors. One was Benjamin Harrison, former president of the United States, whom Governor Stanford invited to deliver a landmark series of lectures on the Constitution. The other was Nathan Abbott, who would head the nascent law program. Dean Abbott assembled around him a small faculty, and he imparted a standard of rigor and excellence that endures to this day. In 1895 the university conferred the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Law. The first graduate degree, a Master of Arts in Law, was introduced in 1901 and the equivalent of today’s professional Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD) degree was inaugurated as the Bachelor of Laws (LLB). Stanford Law School has since developed the degrees of Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD), Master of Legal Studies (MLS), Master of the Science of Law (JSM), Master of Laws (LLM), and 29 joint degrees. Following Abbott’s departure in 1907, the deanship was held successively by Frederic Woodward (1908-1916), Charles Huston (1916-1922), and Marion Rice Kirkwood (1922- 1945). During Dean Kirkwood’s tenure, the law school saw the successful introduction of a moot court program, the institution of the Stanford Law Association (forerunner of today’s alumni law societies), and the first directory of Stanford Law alumni. Carl Spaeth became dean in 1946. Under his leadership, the school assumed its modern form, and the first volume of the Stanford Law Review was published. During the deanship of Bayless Manning (1964-1971), Stanford expanded its role of national leadership in legal education, and fundraising began for a distinct law school campus. Dean Thomas Ehrlich (1971-1976) successfully completed that campaign, overseeing the construction of Crown Quadrangle, a complex of buildings designed specifically for the study of law. The new buildings were dedicated by President Gerald Ford on September 1975. Stanford Law School consolidated its position as one of the nation’s top law schools during the deanship of Charles J. Meyers (1976-1981), who led new initiatives in law, economics, and business. Dean John Hart Ely (1982-1987) promoted public interest programs for students, oversaw a student-led initiative to launch a legal aid clinic in East Palo Alto, and created the nation’s first loan forgiveness program for graduates who chose public interest jobs. Under the leadership of its tenth dean, Paul Brest (1987-1999), the law school embarked on a highly successful fundraising campaign to secure the future of the school with new faculty hiring and a re-engaged alumni community. Dean Brest also strengthened the law and business curriculum and deepened the law school’s ties to the Graduate School of Business and Silicon Valley. Dean Kathleen M. Sullivan (1999-2004) led a technologically sophisticated renovation of the law school complex and raised one of the largest individual gifts made to a U.S. law school to build the Munger Graduate Residence adjacent to the school. She also introduced a new LLM program and began efforts to reinvigorate clinical education at the law school. Dean Larry Kramer (2004-2012) spearheaded significant educational reforms, including dramatically expanding joint degree opportunities, enlarging the clinical education program, and expanding initiatives to foster a public service ethos. Dean Kramer also led the move to bring the law school’s academic calendar in line with the rest of Stanford University, thereby enabling law students to take advantage of offerings in Stanford’s other top-rated graduate programs and departments. Dean M. Elizabeth Magill (2012-2019) expanded Stanford Law School’s academic program and experiential learning opportunities by launching the innovative Law & Policy Lab, which gives students the change to work in small teams to help real-world partners address concrete policy problems. She also spearheaded the Global Law Program, which incorporates the complexity of a globalized world into the law school curriculum. Magill presided over a major effort to hire faculty, bolstered fundraising and alumni engagement, expanded and redesigned student life initiatives, and increased the school’s commitment to public interest fellowships and diversity and inclusion efforts. Installed in the spring of 2019 as the fourteenth dean of Stanford Law School, I have been privileged to join this distinguished community and build on its strengths. Stanford Law School will continue to innovate and evolve, but the basic mission has not changed since Abbott’s day—dedication to the highest standards of excellence in legal scholarship and to the training of lawyers equipped to serve their clients, lead our shared profession, and solve the problems of our nation and our world. I am proud to carry on that tradition. Jenny S. Martinez RICHARD E. LANG PROFESSOR OF LAW AND DEAN OFFICERS OF THE CLASS OF 2019 Nicholas Edward DeFiesta and Victoria Maria Muñoz Torres 3L CO -PRESIDENTS Alexandre Salomão Jabra ADVANCED DEGREE PRESIDENT Gracie Chang 3L TREASURER Felipe Infante Larraín ADVANCED DEGREE TREASURER Emily Dayoung Hong and Monica Carrie Molina 3L CORRESPONDENTS Francesca Ginexi ADVANCED DEGREE CORRESPONDENT 2019 GRADUATION MARSHALS Donna H. Ni 3L MARSHAL Felipe Costa Rodrigues Neves and Thomas Spoerri ADVANCED DEGREE MARSHAL David Friedman Oyer STANDARD BEARER Jory Steele Associate Dean for Student Affairs SCHOOL MARSHAL ORDER OF EXERCISES Processional CLASS OF 2019 AND FACULTY Welcome JENNY S. MARTINEZ RICHARD E. LANG PROFESSOR OF LAW AND DEAN Student Remarks GUILLAUME BRAIDI (LLM) DAVID CORNELL (JD) Presentation of the 2019 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service to Stanford Law School to David Huang VICTORIA MARIA MUÑOZ TORRES Presentation of the 2019 Staff Appreciation Award to Diane Chin NICHOLAS EDWARD DEFIESTA Presentation of the 2019 John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching to Gregory Ablavsky, Associate Professor of Law ALEXANDRE SALOMÃO JABRA Address ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GREGORY ABLAVSKY Presentation of the Class of 2019 ASSOCIATE DEAN JORY STEELE Charge to the Class DEAN MARTINEZ Recessional MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 2019 DOCTOR OF THE SCIENCE OF LAW Pablo Ortiz Mena Montes de Oca Shih-Chun Chien Alexandre Salomão Jabra Doron Dorfman Sergio Sanchez Lopez Anita Jwa Naina Sharma Yoo Min Won MASTER OF LAWS (INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF THE SCIENCE OF LAW ECONOMIC LAW, BUSINESS & POLICY) Silindile Nomfihlakalo Buthelezi David Kwabena Adu-Kusi Janka Deli Paloma Mayeli Alcantara Tremari Laura Natalie Galindo-Romero Juan Miguel Alvarez Contreras Anna Hakobyan Rafael Bittencourt Silva Sunny Seon Kang Mirian Campos Moraes e Silva Tomás Ignacio Kreft Carreño Young Joo Cho Mao-wei Lo Felipe Costa Rodrigues Neves * Austin Andrew Omondi Ouko Milena Cecilia Dos Santos Arbizu Peter John Jan-Philip Wilhelm Elm Amulya Purushothama Adrien Pierre Gabellon Lucia Josefine Benjamina Reuter * Marjorie Gressler Afonso Andrés Felipe Suárez Alice Fu-Yi Lu Michal Totchani Jillian Dawn Meibusch * Naoko Ueda MASTER OF LAWS (CORPORATE Marlena Wisniak GOVERNANCE & PRACTICE) Yael Yahya Guillaume Braidi * Noelia Carreras Schabauer MASTER OF LAWS (LAW, SCIENCE Maria Eugenia Crespo & TECHNOLOGY) Adyasha Das Sanghyun Baek Natalia De Santis de Caldas Pires Maria Antonia Carvajal Cabal Vanessa Isler Maria Gabriela Castanheira Bacha Fernando Juárez Hernández Ana Carolina Folgosi Bittar Soyeon Jun Francesca Ginexi Laurent Lantonnois van Rode Steinunn Gudmundsdottir Shomaila Loan Maker Hongbo Hei Thomas Patrick McLaughlin Alexander James Maschmedt Shachar Nir Nayantara Menon Mehta Fabio Pamplona Vidal Jahnavi Mitra Drushya Sridhar Yasmin Monteiro Baptista Bente Van Winckel Benjamin Walker Murphy Hiroshi Watanabe Siddhartha Sarangal Martin Schwertmann MASTER OF LAWS (ENVIRONMENTAL Mizuna Sekine LAW & POLICY) Thomas Spoerri Maya Maria Beeler-Sigron Shivanghi Sukumar Caidan Cao Aurea María Fuentes Morales Mandakini Ghosh Man Sze Hui Felipe Infante Larraín Megumi Kawatani Myungwon Keum Aditi Khosla Woongjae Kim Minyoung Lee Mario Mozó MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 2019 DOCTOR OF JURISPRUDENCE Alyssa Marie Dunn Michael Robert Abrams ** Emma Carolyn Eastwood-Paticchio *** Michael James Abramson Naz El-Khatib Sancho Accorsi * Alexandra Allison Enion Margot Marie Adams Nathan A. Fennell ** Jacob D. Addelson ** Jacob S. Finkel * Matthew Agnew Jake Funk Cynthia Amezcua *** Samantha Nicole Gerleman ** Eleanor Chamberlain Anthony Peter A. Gilchrist * Avi Ross Bakshani Raphael Julian Ginsburg ** James Baltzer * Taisa Marina Kosarchyn Goodnature ** Hilary Susan Bartlett *** Elizabeth Corinne Grabowski Sean Louis Becker Devon J. Gray Fithawi Berhane Rachel E. Green *** Daniel W. Bernal * Julia Leigh Greenberg *** Pranav Bethala Kyle B. Grigel ** Zachary J. Bleckner * Vanessa Maria Guerrero * Brian Andrew Bloomer T. Ariel Guerrero-Stewart Erik Blumenkranz Katherine Weston Guthrie ** John Adam Bonacorsi *** Anthony Gutierrez Lauren Elizabeth Border *** Thomas Oren Gwinn Jr. Autumn Skye Bordner ** Shelby Hart-Armstrong *** Beth Eliana Braiterman *** Emily Anne Hayes * Anjuli Branz *** Savannah Nicole Haynes ** Aaron David Dakin Bray Junjie He * Kathryn T. Brennan Ethan Jedidiah Herenstein * Daniel Joseph Brenner ** Ari