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Honorary Doctorates

Jubilee Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Law

2019

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USA

Honorary Doctors at the Faculty of Law

2024

Professor David Lagnado, University College London

2023

Professor Helle Krunke, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Lawyer Erik Sjöman, Malmö, Sweden

2022

Deputy Director and Principal Legal Adviser at the Legal Service of the European Commission Leo Flynn, Ireland

2021

Professor Gerard Quinn, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

2020

Advocate General Sylvaine Laulom, France
Professor Anne Ruth Mackor, Groningen University
Associate Professor Anders Nordgaard, Linköping University

2019

Professor Jan Pedersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Professor Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki, Finland

2018

Jur. dr. Samuel Engblom, Sweden
Docent Bengt Lundell, Lund University, Sweden
Professor Clare McGlynn, Durham University, UK

2017

Professor Dag Michalsen, University of Oslo, Norway

2016

Professor Catherine Barnard, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Kirsten Sandberg, University of Oslo, Norway

2015

Ambassador (ret.) Anders Kruse, Helsinki, Finland
Professor Rosemary Rayfuse, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2014

Professor Judy Fudge, Kent Law School, Canterbury, Great Britain
Professor em Proshanto Mukherjee, World Maritime University, Malmö, Sweden

2013

Professor Martha A. Fineman, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, USA
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (ret.) Johan Munck, Sweden

2012

Justice of the Supreme Court Marianne Lundius, Sweden
Professor Anne Orford, Melbourne, Australia

2011

Lawyer Finn Madsen, Malmö, Sweden
Professor Pia Letto-Vanamo, Helsinki, Finland

2010

Professor Jeffery Atik, Loyola Law School, LA, USA
Judge Pernilla Lindh, Sweden

2009

Senior lecturer (ret.) Karin Adlercreutz, Lund, Sweden
Journalist Maciej Zaremba, Stockholm, Sweden

2008

Professor Elspeht Guild, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Professor John Temple Lang, Brussels, Belgium

2007

Ambassador Hans Corell, Stockholm, Sweden
Professor Bernhard M. Ortwein, Boston, USA

2006

Professor Dr. jur. DDR. h.c. Reinhard Zimmerman, Hamburg, Germany

2005

Vorsitzender Richter am Landesarbeitsgericht Brandenburg Reinhard Schinz, Berlin, Germany
Justice of the Supreme Administrative Marianne Eliason, Stockholm, Sweden

2004

Professor Eva Smith, Copenhagen, Denmark

2003

Professor Lars Björne, Åbo, Finland
Docent Torbjörn Vallinder, Lund, Sweden

2002

Mauritz Bäärnhielm, Stockholm, Sweden
Professor Philip Wood, London, England

2001

Professor Ingemar Ståhl, Lund, Sweden
Professor Kaarlo Tuori, Helsinki, Finland

2000

Bo Brommé, Sweden
Professor Ruth Nielsen, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999

The seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, NY, USA
Professor dr. iur. Michael Stolleis, Frankfurt, Tyskland

1998

Chief district judge Trygve Hellners
Professor emeritus Valentine Korah, London, GB

1997

Professor Aulis Aarnio, Tammerfors, Finland
Justice of the Supreme Court Göran Regner, Stockholm, Sweden

1996

Chief district judge, med. dr. h.c. Erland Aspelin
Professor Asbjørn Kjønstad, Oslo, Norway

1994

Professor Carl Aage Nørgaard, Århus, Denmark

1993

Professor Lawrence M Friedman, Stanford, CA, USA
Professor Peter Lødrup, Oslo, Norway

1992

Professor Kaneyoshi Hagiwara, Kanagawa, Japan
Former Justice of the Supreme Administrative Court Bengt Wieslander, Stockholm, Sweden

1991

Cand. jur. Asbjørn Eide,Oslo, Norway

1990

Professor Bernhard Diestelkamp, Frankfurt, Germany

1989

Professor Torstein Eckhoff
Former President of the Court of Appeal Tore Landahl

1988

Justice of the Supreme Court Torkel Gregow, Sweden
Docent Hans-Heinrich Vogel, Sweden

1987

Professor Nils Stjernquist, Lund, Sweden

1986

Professor Aleksander Peczenik

1985

Lawyer Wilhelm Penser, Sweden

1984

Chief district judge Erik Holmberg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Professor Lars Erik Taxell, Åbo, Finland

1982

Professor Bernhard Gomard, Copenhagen, Denmark
Doctor of Philosophy Signe Carlsson

1981

Docent Gösta Kedner
Professor Sven Kjöllerström

1977

Former member of the Court of Appeal Johan Bratt

1969

District Court Judge Anders Bruzelius, Lund, Sweden
Associate Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USA

Doctor Honoris Causa

The title of honorary doctor, Doctor Honoris Causa, is conferred by the faculty upon a person who has contributed in a distinctive way to the university's activities in research and education, but who has not been awarded a PhD at the faculty.

The honorary doctors take part in the doctoral conferment ceremony together with those who have finished their research studies and defended a PhD thesis at Lund University over the previous year.

Upcoming Doctoral Conferment Ceremonies

31 May 2024
23 May 2025