The Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession is set to award its highest professional distinction, the Center on the Legal Profession Award for Global Leadership, to Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud..CJI Chandrachud holds an LLM and an SJD (Doctor of Juridical Science) from Harvard Law School..The award will be presented on January 11 at an event which will be held online from 7 pm to 8 pm. .CJI Chandrachud will join a select group of past recipients, including Samantha Power (former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations under President Obama and current head of the Agency for International Development), Brad Smith (Vice-Chair and President of Microsoft), the late Vernon Jordan (who throughout his distinguished career served as the President of the National Urban League, Senior Managing Director of Lazard Frères, Senior Partner at Akin Gump, a Member of the Board of Directors for several Fortune 500 companies, and a close advisor to Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama), and Kenneth Frazier (Executive Chair and former CEO of Merck). “I know how much India, and indeed the world, need Justice Chandrachud’s leadership, particularly on issues such as the mental health and the well-being of lawyers which he spoke about so eloquently at our conference in 2017 – long before the global pandemic placed this issue in the forefront of the profession’s consciousness,” CLP faculty director, David Wilkins said.
