Harvard Law School’s 2016 Class Day ceremony featured speeches by award-winning actor, producer, businesswoman and philanthropist Sarah Jessica Parker and Harvard Law School Professor Jeannie Suk, winner of the 2016 Albert M. Sacks-Paul A. Freund Award for Teaching Excellence.
A number of Harvard Law students from the Class of ’16 received special awards for their outstanding leadership, citizenship, compassion and dedication to their studies and the profession.
![Sarah Jessica Parker with the 2016 HLS Class Marshals](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/05_25_16_ClassDay2016_MStewart_046-scaled.jpg)
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![Sarah Jessica Parker during the event](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/05_25_16_ClassDay2016_MStewart_118-scaled.jpg)
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![Marcia Sells speaking at a podium](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/05_25_16_ClassDay2016_MStewart_123-scaled.jpg)
![Awards recipients at the front of the crowd](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/05_25_16_ClassDay2016_MStewart_154-scaled.jpg)
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![Salvo Arena speaking at the podium](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/05_25_16_ClassDay2016_MStewart_166-scaled.jpg)
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![Martha Minow, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Jeanie Suk](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/05_25_16_ClassDay2016_MStewart_236-scaled.jpg)
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![Gabriela Gonzalez Follett speaking at the podium](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/05_25_16_ClassDay2016_MStewart_190-scaled.jpg)
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![Jeannie Suk speaking at the podium](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/05_25_16_ClassDay2016_MStewart_215-scaled.jpg)
![Audience clapping during the event](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/05_25_16_ClassDay2016_MStewart_279-scaled.jpg)
![Sarah Jessica Parker in glasses speaking at the podium](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/05_25_16_ClassDay2016_MStewart_260-scaled.jpg)
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