About Caruso School of Law Dinner
Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law hosts an annual dinner with prominent, featured guests to inspire our distinctive community marked by excellence, Christian values, and rigorous legal training. Featured guests have come from diverse legal backgrounds including corporate, constitutional, business, and more.
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2025 Coming Soon
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Fairmont Century Plaza
2025 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067
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24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90263
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Caruso School of Law Dinner 2024 Highlights
Over 700 alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends throughout the Caruso School of Law community attended to celebrate Caruso Law’s past successes and get a glimpse of the exciting future ahead. We were privileged to welcome Justice Amy Coney Barrett of the Supreme Court of the United States as our speaker for the evening, in conversation with Paul Caron, the Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of the Caruso School of Law, and professors Babette Boliek and Trey Childress exploring this year's theme "Freedom in Truth".
“Lawyers and professors, as officers of the court, have an institutional duty to lead critical conversations. When issues arise, it’s essential for lawyers to step forward and guide these discussions, setting a tone that fosters unity rather than division. A lawyer’s role should be to lead conversations around reform and problem-solving in a way that brings people together, inspiring a desire for solutions rather than fueling bitterness. Additionally, lawyers should champion constructive criticism and work to preserve institutions. I believe Pepperdine and similar institutions are cultivating students to embrace that responsibility.”
—Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Caruso School of Law Dinner 2024
Read about the highlights from the 2024 law dinner. Check back for the save-the-date details coming soon and join us in 2025.
Featured Guest 2024
AMY CONEY BARRETT
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Justice Amy Coney Barrett was nominated by president Donald J. Trump to the Supreme Court of the United States and took her seat on October 27, 2020. She was appointed a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2017. Justice Barrett holds a bachelor’s degree from Rhodes College and a juris doctor degree from Notre Dame Law School. She served as a law clerk for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit from 1997 to 1998 and for Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1998 term. Following two years in private law practice in Washington, DC, Justice Barrett became a law professor, joining the faculty of Notre Dame Law School in 2002.
