2 12. -_ s STANFORD UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT DINNER Saturday, 10 June 2000 Head Table Gerhard Casper, President, Stanford University Regina Casper Warren Christopher, former Secretary of State Marie Christopher, former Stanford Trustee Robert Bass, Chair, Stanford University Board of Trustees Anne Bass Note: Dr. Regina Casper will be to the right of the Secretary-General and Mrs. Anne Bass to his left. The Honourable Warren Christopher -will be to the right of Mrs Annan and Mr. Gerhard Casper to her left. STANFORD UNIVERSITY OFHCE OF THE PRESIDENT GERHARD CASPER Born in 1937, Gerhard Casper grew up in Hamburg, the port city on the Elbe River. At sixteen, he made his first trip to the United States, as one of thirty-two students from around the world who came to the United Nations for the New York Herald Tribune Forum for High Schools, a program intended to promote international understanding. Mr, Casper studied law at line Universities of Freiburg and Hamburg, where, in 1961, he earned his first law degree^ He came to Yale Law School in 1961, obtaining his Master of Laws degree a year later. He then returned to Freiburg, where he received his Doctorate in 1964, writing his dissertation on the realist movement in American law. In the fall of 1964, Mr. Casper emigrated to the United States spending two years as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1966, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, and between 1979 and 1987 served as Dean of the Law School. He has written and taught primarily in the fields of constitutional law, constitutional history, comparative law, and jurisprudence. From 1977 to 1991, he was an editor of The Supreme Court Review. His most recent book is Separating Power, Essays on the Founding Period (Harvard University Press, 1997). It concerns the separation of powers practices at the end of the 18th century in the United States, In 1989, Mr. Casper became Provost of the University of Chicago, a post he held until he accepted the presidency of Stanford University in 1992. He also holds appointments as Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford, Mr. Casper is a member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, Mr. Casper is married to Regina Casper, M.D. Dr. Casper was a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago before taking an appointment as Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science in the School of Medicine at Stanford. She is an authority in the area of depression and eating disorders. The Caspers have one daughter, Hanna, who is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia Law School. She practices law in California. June 8,2000 BUILDING 10, MAIN QUADRANGLE • STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 9430J-2060 • (650)723-2481 • FAX (650) 725-6847 22/E'd STB'OKI Z1?B9£3i0£9 331JJO SflKQaiSlHd Wb8£:0T 0002'8 ' c 5 S fs 'Efc •^ 3 8 •£ S• -j; 1t ~1> """ *'"*' i g P. 3 TS £ .t; u ^ t S 11, S S ^ g 13 o pll'&. S c BI-ll oi ^ ^-Q o ll^l ;g 111 s 1 •ga -gi ^ -u o- ™ ••! f^ "^ is t:«4E y w a-sf 5 S S *3 S 'a T^5 «t' u3 II K-S oi to H -S II ^ s c b-H |>5 d tf .2 »r; .0 ** 2 « S *r X 2 n^ lillliil« * f" -5 "S O »A in"l ^ . *I BQ.