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, California's attorney general, will speak about service to humanity at the commencement at the University of California, Davis, on Sunday, May 26.

The law school will award 12 Master of Laws degrees and 163 Juris Doctor degrees, and its ceremony is the first of 11 commencements at which the university will confer a total of about 6,000 degrees through June 16.

Dean Rex Perschbacher said the law school is honored to have Lockyer as the commencement speaker. "Attorney General Lockyer has reinvigorated the environmental protection, anti-trust, consumer law and civil rights enforcement functions within the California Department of Justice."

Before being elected attorney general in 1998, Lockyer served in the state legislature for 25 years, chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee for nearly a decade and was president pro tem of the Senate from 1994 to 1998.

Also speaking at the ceremony will be , professor of law and Chicana/o studies as well as the law school's associate dean of academic affairs.

Joseph Schofield, who attained the highest academic standing among Juris Doctor candidates, will be presented with the School of Law Medal and $500.

The law school commencement will begin at 1:30 p.m. in Recreation Hall. Other ceremonies will be held as follows:

• -- 6 p.m. on Friday, June 7, Health Sciences Quadrangle;
• -- 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, Recreation Hall;
• -- noon on Friday, June 14, Recreation Hall;
• -- 6:30 p.m. on Friday, June 14, Recreation Hall;
• -- 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 15, Recreation Hall;
• -- 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 15, Freeborn Hall;
• -- 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 15, Recreation Hall; and
• -- 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 16, Recreation Hall.