Carl Levin, Michigan’s longest-serving U.S. senator and chair of the newly launched Levin Center at Wayne Law, will deliver the keynote address at Wayne State University Law School’s Commencement on Monday, May 18.
During the ceremony, the university will award an honorary doctor of laws degree to Sujata Manohar, a former member of the Supreme Court of India and an international pioneer for women’s rights and human rights.
The ceremony, open to graduates and their guests, will be at the Detroit Opera House. Tickets are required.
The recently-retired Levin served 36 years in the Senate. Before that, he was a member and president of the Detroit City Council.
Levin also served as the first general counsel of Michigan’s Civil Rights Commission, after which he was special assistant attorney general for the state of Michigan and chief appellate defender for the Legal Aid and Defenders Association of Detroit.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Swarthmore College and a law degree from Harvard Law School. Wayne State recognized Levin with an honorary degree in 2005. He also serves as the law school’s distinguished legislator in residence, co-teaching courses on tax law and policy and legislative process and oversight. In addition, he is senior counsel to Honigman, Miller, Schwartz, and Cohn LLP.
Manohar, an arbitrator in national and international disputes, was the first female judge of the Bombay High Court in 1978 and later became its chief justice, again the first woman in that role.
In 1994, she was appointed to the Supreme Court of India, a seat she held until her retirement in 1999.
Shortly after retirement, Manohar was appointed to India’s National Human Rights Commission, through which she worked to bring attention to human trafficking, women’s issues and HIV/AIDS.
She served as a consultant to the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women’s expert group on trafficking, as well as the U.N. expert group on women, peace and security.
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