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Honorary Doctorates 2024: Get to know their work!

Professor Koen Lenaerts and Professor Alison Wylie will receive an honorary doctorate for their outstanding academic and professional achievements at our university’s 111th Dies Natalis, themed ‘Engaging Minds, Advancing Science’. Do you want to know more about their work? Check out a selection of their publications here. 

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Professor Koen Lenaerts

Koen Lenaerts is president of the highest judicial body of the European Union, the Court of Justice. Through his academic and professional activities, he makes a significant social impact by strengthening and promoting the importance of European integration, particularly the European legal order. 

As President of the Court, he consistently stresses the importance of common European values, ethics, solidarity, the rule of law and the protection of fundamental freedoms and minority rights. His leadership and vision have had a lasting impact on the functioning and case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. 

His work builds bridges between academia, legal practice and policymakers. President Lenaerts’ efforts help maintain respect for the rule of law and ensure it remains embedded in our civic culture. 

Selection of books & special issues

  • (2023, 2nd edition)
  • (2023, 7th edition, on order)
  • (2021)
  • (2019)
  • (2011, 3rd edition)
  • (1999)
  • (1983)

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Professor Alison Wylie 

Alison Wylie is a professor at the University of British Columbia. She specialises in the philosophy of the social and historical sciences. Wylie raises a number of important ethical issues in the social sciences regarding epistemic injustice. 

Her work is case-based; she focuses on archaeological research, particularly on questions of evidential reasoning and ideals of objectivity. Wylie’s views underline what it means to be a ‘civic university': accountable to the diverse communities affected by research. 

Books & special issues

  • (2015)
  • – Hypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy (2010)
  • - Perspectives on Science (2008)
  • (2007) 
  • – Episteme: Journal of social epistemology (2006)
  • (2002)

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