Elizabeth Warren is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is vice-president of the American Law Institute and served as Chief Advisor to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission. She has appeared on Dr. Phil, Today, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, and other programs. Co-author Amelia Warren Tyagi worked as an Engagement Manager with McKinsey and Company, specializing in health care, insurance, and education, and she co-founded the successful healthcare start-up HealthAllies. She is a regular commentator on NPR's Marketplace.
Warren is the Vice-President of the American Law Institute and is on the Executive Committee of the National Bankruptcy Conference. She directed the National Bankruptcy Review Commissions study of federal bankruptcy laws and drafted its report to Congress. Chief Justice Rehnquist appointed Professor Warren to the Judicial Education Committee of the Federal Judicial Center from 1990 to 1999. The National Law Journal named her one of the Fifty Most Influential Women Lawyers in America. Harvard students voted her the Sacks and Freund Award for teaching excellence.
Prior to teaching at Harvard, Professor Warren was the William A. Schnader Professor of Commercial Law at University of Pennsylvania School of Law and also taught at the University of Texas School of Law, University of Houston Law Center, University of Michigan and Rutgers Law School. We look forward to Ms. Warren’s commencement speech as she highly regarded not only as an academic and a legal scholar, but also as an inspiring and entertaining speaker.