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Lake Forest, Ill – Cass R. Sunstein, the Karl N. Lewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence in the Law School and Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. will be awarded the degree Doctor of Laws, honoris causa at Lake Forest College’s 124th Commencement on Saturday, May 11. Mr. Sunstein has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activities in a number of nations, including Ukraine, Poland, China, South Africa, and Russia. Prior to joining the University of Chicago, Mr. Sunstein worked as attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. After graduating from Harvard in 1978, he clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U. S. Supreme Court. Sunstein is the author of numerous books and many articles ranging from constitutional law to democracy and free speech. Others being presented honorary degrees at the 2002 Commencement are Deborah Leff, director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library; Lake Forest alumnus Carl Lorenzo MaultsBy, musician, conductor, composer, teacher, entrepreneur and member of the African Music Hall of Fame; and Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, oral and social historian, and television and radio personality. Mr. Terkel will deliver the Commencement address titled "The Need To Ask Why." President Stephen D. Schutt will preside over the ceremony, during which more than 235 graduates will be awarded Bachelor of Arts and Master of Liberal Studies degrees. Commencement begins at 10:45 a.m. with the academic procession into Johnson Science Courtyard on the College’s Middle Campus. In the event of inclement weather the ceremony will be held inside the Sports Center on South Campus. Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,250 students representing 44 states and 41 other countries.
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