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This list of honorary degrees lists all honorary degrees, including honorary doctorates. ... Honorary Doctor of Business Hon. D.B. [14] Honorary Doctor of Dental Surgery:
In 1765, Trinity College, Dublin awarded him the degree of Doctor of Laws [66] and in 1775 Oxford bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Civil Law by diploma. [ 67 ] Edwin H. Land , who invented the Land Camera instant camera , and was a co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation , received an honorary doctorate from Harvard University and was ...
Originally the second of three degrees in sequence – Legum Baccalaureus (LL.B., last conferred by an American law school in 1970); LL.M.; and Legum Doctor (LL.D.) or Doctor of Laws, which has only been conferred in the United States as an honorary degree but is an earned degree in other countries. In American legal academia, the LL.M. was ...
Former U.S. Sen Lamar Alexander, one of Tennessee's most accomplished public figures, was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree from Princeton University on May 28.
Hillary Clinton received her honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree from the University of Oxford in 2021, where her husband, former president Bill Clinton, previously attended as a Rhodes Scholar in ...
Legum Doctor (LL.D.) or, in English, Doctor of Laws, is a doctorate-level academic degree in law or an honorary degree, depending on the jurisdiction.The double “L” in the abbreviation refers to the early practice in the University of Cambridge to teach both canon law and civil law (Doctor of both laws), with the double “L” itself indicating the plural, although Cambridge now gives the ...
[40] [41] Similar to the Ph.D., the S.J.D. is a research doctorate and has been described as the "highest degree in law" by the University of Virginia, [42] as well as the "terminal degree in law for individuals interested in academia" by Indiana University [43] and the "most advanced law degree" by Harvard Law School. [44]
honorary doctor of laws: April 1991 [16]: 20 12 Argentina University of Palermo (Buenos Aires) honorary doctorate: May 1991 [17] 13 Hong Kong Chinese University of Hong Kong: distinguished visiting professor: January 1992 [18] 14 Turkey Ankara University: honorary doctorate of social science: June 1992 [19]: 12–13 15 China Chinese Academy of ...