Legal luminaries receive honorary CoL degrees
updated on 02 December 2011
The College of Law's degree congregation has awarded four of the most eminent lawyers in the United Kingdom honorary doctorates in law, in a ceremony which also marked the graduation of 439 former college LLB students and bestowed master's qualifications on a further 12.
The honorary degrees were awarded to executive director of the International Bar Association (IBA) Dr Mark Ellis, prominent academic lawyers Professor William Twining and Professor Sir Roy Goode, as well as to Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger.
The ceremony effusively praised the achievements of these legal luminaries. Dr Mark Ellis was lauded for his IBA work, which has "great importance to the global community". Professor William Twining received plaudits as one of "this country's most creative and influential academic lawyers", while Professor Sir Roy Goode was described as "one of the most accomplished, distinguished and respected academic lawyers of his generation". Lord Neuberger was singled out for praise based on "the quality of his judgments - and most especially[…] the principles and values which underpin them".
The college was the first non-publicly funded institution to be granted degree-awarding powers by the Privy Council in 2006.
