Harvard Commencement week 2015: events for Friday, May 29

Radcliffe Day panel and luncheon with keynote speaker Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Radcliffe Institute dean Lizabeth Cohen awards the Radcliffe Medal to Margaret Marshall in 2012.

FRIDAY MAY 29 is Radcliffe Day, and this year’s festivities will include the panel “A Decade of Decisions and Dissents: The Roberts Court, from 2005 to Today,” moderated by Margaret H. Marshall Ed.M. ’69, Ed ’77, L ’78 at 10:30A.M.

The Radcliffe Day luncheon begins at 12:30 P.M. in Radcliffe Yard with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L’ 59, LL.D. ’11, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She will receive the Radcliffe Medal after remarks by David H. Souter '61, LL. B. '66, who retired as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2009. (He received an honorary degree and was the Commencement guest speaker in 2010.)

More information, a full listing of events, and live webcasts appear here.

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