Dayton Docket
International Relations Expert With High-Level State Department Experience To Speak To Law Grads
Anne-Marie Slaughter will be the speaker at this year's University of Dayton School of Law graduation ceremony.
The ceremony is set for Saturday, May 7 at 9 a.m. at UD Arena.
Dr. Slaughter is the CEO of New America and the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009-2011 she served as the director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Prior to her government service, Dr. Slaughter was the Dean of Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School) from 2002–2009 and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School from 1994-2002.
Dr. Slaughter has written or edited seven books, including “The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World”, “Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family”, and “The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World." She is also a frequent contributor to a number of publications, including The Atlantic, the Financial Times, and Project Syndicate. In 2012, she published “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” in The Atlantic, which quickly became one of the most read articles in the history of the magazine and helped spark a renewed national debate on the continued obstacles to genuine full male-female equality.
Dr. Slaughter will join an illustrious list of School of Law graduation speakers including Microsoft President Brad Smith, Ray McGuire, who was Citi’s Global Head of Corporate and Investment Banking and a New York City mayoral candidate, and Ohio Supreme Court Justice Melody Stewart.