Doctorates Honoris Causa

List of Honorary Doctorates awarded by the university

2023

Monsieur Atsushi OMURA, Honorary Professor at the University of Tokyo

2022

Mr Alfred Dufour, Honorary Professor at the University of Geneva

2021

12 October

Mr John (Yisraël) Aumann, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, mathematician and winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics.

Ms Michèle Grégoire, Professor at the Free University of Brussels

Mr Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, Dean of the University of Athens Law Faculty, former president of the European Court of Human Rights

Ms Letizia Vacca, Professor Emeritus at Roma Tre University

Mr Joel Sobel, Professor at the University of California

Mr Peppino ORTOLEVA, Professor at the University of Turin

2019

His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan BIN MUBARAK AL NAHAYAN, Minister of Tolerance in the United Arab Emirates.

2016

29 January

Mr Jürgen BASEDOW, Professor at the University of Hamburg Law Faculty, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Ms Anna DE VITA, Professor at the University of Florence

Mr Antonio TIZZANO, Professor Emeritus at the Sapienza University of Rome

Sir Nigel RODLEY, Professor at the University of Essex, member of the UN Human Rights Council

Ms Gigliola DI RENZO VILLATA, Professor at the University of Milan

Mr Robert D. COOTER, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley

Mr Itamar SIMONSON, Professor at Stanford University

Ms Sonia LIVINGSTONE, Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

13 December

Mr Prokopis PAVLOPOULOS, President of the Hellenic Republic

2012

Mr Ezra Suleiman, Professor at Princeton University

2010

Mr Vassilios SKOURIS, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union

Mr Umberto ECO, Professor Emeritus at the University of Bologna

Mr Fernando HINESTROSA, Rector at the Universidad Externado de Colombia

Mr Jeffrey JOWELL, Professor at University College London

Mr Alain LEVASSEUR, Professor at Louisiana State University

Mr Charles DONAHUE, Jr., Professor at Harvard University

Mr Paolo SPADA, Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome

Mr Jacques-François THISSE, Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven

Mr Donald C. HAMBRICK, Professor at Pennsylvania State University

2004

Mr James Friedman, Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mr Eiichi Hoshino, Professor at the University of Tokyo

Mr Naguib Hosni, Professor at the University of Cairo

Mr William Starbuck, Professor at New York University

Mr Pierre Tercier, Professor at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

Mr Giuseppe Tesauro, Professor at the University of Naples

2001

Mr Paul-André Crépeau, Professor at McGill University

Ms Rosalyn Higgins, Judge at the International Court of Justice

Mr Peter Landau, Professor at the University of Munich

Mr Jean-Victor Louis, Professor at the Free University of Brussels and the European University Institute Florence

Mr Peter Stein, Professor at the University of Cambridge

2000

Mr Sabino Cassese, Professor at the University of Rome

Mr Richard Cooper, Professor at Harvard University

Mr Mark R. Freedland, Professor at the University of Oxford

Mr Jochen A. Frowein, Professor at the University of Heidelberg, Director of the Max Planck Institute

Mr Peter Haggenmacher, Professor at The Graduate Institute, Geneva 

Mr Elihu Katz, Professor at the Universities of Jerusalem and Pennsylvania

Mr Konstantinos D. Kerameus, Professor at the University of Athens

Mr Arthur T. von Mehren, Professor at Harvard University

Mr Antonio Padoa-Schioppa, Professor at the University of Milan

Mr Hans Jürgen Sonnenberger, Professor at the University of Munich

1997

Mr Gaetano Arangio Ruiz, Professor at the University of Rome

Mr Ennio Cortese, Professor at the University of Rome

Mr Pierre Gannagé, Professor at the University of Beirut

Mr Dieter Nörr, Professor at the University of Munich

Mr Rodolpho Sacco, Professor at the University of Turin

Mr Arnold Wald, Professor at the University of Rio de Janeiro

1988

Mr Gian Gualberto Archi, Professor at the University of Florence

Mr Raoul van Caenegem, The Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium

Mr E. Allan Farnsworth, Professor at Columbia University

Mr Yoïchi Higuchi, Professor at the University of Tokyo

Mr Epaminondas Spiliotopoulos, Professor at the University of Athens

1985

Mr Javier Perez de Cuellar, United Nations Secretary-General

1981

Mr Robert Feenstra, Professor at the University of Leiden

Mr Pierre Lalive, former Dean at the University of Geneva Faculty of Law

Mr Carolos P. Romulo, Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of the Philippines

Mr Karl Roskamp, Professor at Wayne State University (Michigan)

Mr Hans Thieme, Professor Emeritus at the University of Fribourg in Brisgau

1980

Mr René Levesque, Prime Minister of Quebec

1978

Mr David Butler, Professor at Nuffield College, Oxford

Mr Janos Kornai, Professor at the Institute of Economics - Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Mr Wolfgang Kunkel, Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Munich

Mr Robert Patry, Honorary Professor at the University of Geneva

Mr Imre Szabo, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

1974

Mr Roberto Ago, Professor at the University of Rome

Mr John Gilissen, Professor at the Free University of Brussels

Mr J. Kenneth Galbraith, Professor at Harvard University

Mr Michael Stassinopoulos, Member of the Athens Academy, former President of the Greek Council of State

Mr Konrad Zweigert, Director of the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg