Honorary doctors and doctors of law celebrated at conferment ceremony
Uppsala University's annual Winter Conferment Ceremony took place on 27 January at which the Faculty of Law’s two honorary doctors, Professor Emerita Tone Sverdrup, and Professor Alessandro Simoni, were honoured together with six doctors of law. Professor Anna-Sara Lind was promotor.
Tone Sverdrup and Alessandro Simoni were appointed new honorary doctors at the Faculty of Law last autumn, and on 27 January they and six doctors of law were honored alongside the university's other doctors at the annual Winter Conferment Ceremony. Before and during the ceremony, they were presented with the honours of a doctoral hat, a doctoral ring, and a diploma by the Faculty of Law's promotor Anna-Sara Lind. The new doctors were also honoured with the traditional canon salute at Uppsala Castle and the University Main Building, and the ringing of bells in Uppsala Cathedral. The festivities ended with dinner in the Hall of State at the castle.
Professor Emerita Tone Sverdrup is an active member of the Faculty of Law, Institutt för privatrett, at the University of Oslo. Tone has made significant contributions to the development of Nordic family law and the Nordic research environment in the field. Through her extensive writing, her perceptive analysis of, among other things, property law issues in family law, combined with a unique ability to form fruitful collaborations, she has contributed new and valuable knowledge in an area where reality constantly poses new challenges to legal regulation.
ProfessorAlessandro Simoniis Professore Ordinario of comparative private law at the University of Florence and one of the leading researchers in comparative law in Europe, whose research has made a significant impact in related legal disciplines, including private law, civil procedure law, and administrative law. His focus on comparisons of legal cultures and their expressions has taken him to distant legal traditions and linguistic areas, still with a foot rooted in European law. For many decades he has worked closely and collaboratively with representatives of various legal disciplines within the Faculty of Law in Uppsala in terms of research and research collaboration, but also in teaching and teaching exchange.
The six doctors of law awarded on the same occasion were Emma Ahlm, European law, Jason Czarnezki, environmental law, Marika Ericson, public international law, Marc Landeman, private law, Teresa Quintel, European law, and Laima Vaige, private international law.
Maria Cicilaki