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