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Scenes from the Law School's 27th Annual Diploma and Hooding Ceremony

Photos by Lloyd DeGrane

Three women wearing graduation robes and caps stand together for a photo with other graduates seen in the background.
Students wait outside the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel for the ceremony to commence.
Men and women wearing graduation robes and caps are seen filing into a chapel in two parallel lines.
Law School faculty file into the chapel before the start of the ceremony.
An aerial wide-shot view of the inside of the chapel that is filled with graduating students and families sitting in the pews.
A total of 215 JD students, 82 LLM students, and 3 JSD students were awarded degrees at the event.
A man stands at a pulpit wearing graduation garb delivering a speech. There is a banner next to him that says UCHICAGO LAW.
Dean Thomas J. Miles, the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law, delivers opening remarks.
A row of graduating students sitting in pews smiling in clapping.
Graduates celebrate each other with enthusiastic applause.
A man wearing graduation garb stands at a pulpit giving a speech.
Ajit V. Pai, '97, CEO of CTIA and partner at Searchlight Capital Partners, and the 2025 recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award, delivers his speech to the graduates.
A side view of people sitting in pews wearing graduation garb looking on at the ceremony.
Members of the faculty proudly look on at the graduating class.
A woman wearing graduation garb is standing at a pulpit delivering a speech.
Alison L. LaCroix, the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and an associate member of the Department of History, delivers her speech to the graduates.
A faculty member drapes a hood around a student, with another faculty member standing behind that student..
Four members of the faculty hooded the graduates: Aziz Huq, the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law; Genevieve Lakier, Professor of Law and the Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar; Tom Ginsburg, the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law and Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar; and LaCroix.
A student is walking with a diploma in her hands and is surrounded by other graduating students.
A graduating student walks back to her seat after receiving her diploma.
Graduates are exiting the chapel, descending stairs while smiling.
Graduates emerge from the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel to meet family and friends after the ceremony.
A person is taking a photo with their cell phone of a graduate and his family member, a woman, presumably his mother.
Graduates and their families linger outside of the chapel to take photos.
A line of people are walking down a path toward the Law School building.
Graduates and guests make their way to the Law School's Laird Bell Quadrangle for a lunch reception...
Two women wearing graduation robes are standing outside in front of a reflecting pool talking to a woman wearing ordinary but dressy clothes.
...to continue the celebration...
A group of graduates pose for a photo.
...and take more photos with family and friends.
Two people wearing graduation garb pose for a photo together in a room filled with people.
A graduate poses for a photo with the alumnus speaker, Ajit V. Pai, '97.
Two men wearing graduation garb stand in a semi circle with two women wearing ordinary but dressy clothes; they are all laughing and talking.
There was no shortage of smiles on the momentous day.
A graduate is holding up her diploma and smiling in the midst of a crowd of other graduates standing around her.
Congratulations Class of 2025!

On Saturday, June 7, the Law School held its 27th Annual Diploma and Hooding Ceremony, welcoming a total of 300 new graduates from the Class of 2025 into UChicago Law's alumni community.

Read a full recap of the day here.