Margaret Somerville awarded a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, by Royal Military College of Canada
麻豆AV Professor Margaret Somerville was awarded a Doctorate of Laws, honoris causa, on May 16, 2013, by the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. During the College鈥檚 94th Convocation ceremony, the College鈥檚 Chancellor, the Honourable Peter McKay, Minister of Defence, cited 鈥渉er exceptional contributions to society through research, scholarly debate and personal involvement.鈥�
Professor Somerville, who holds the Samuel Gale Chair in the Faculty of Law and is also a professor in the Faculty of Medicine, then gave the College鈥檚 Convocation Address on the theme 鈥淭rust, Courage and Hope: Putting into Practice 鈥楾ruth, Duty, Valour,鈥欌�� which was reproduced on the RMC鈥檚 e-Veritas blog: .
Margaret Somerville, DCL鈥�78, is known as an international leader in the discussion of complex ethical questions surrounding both the legal and ethical aspects of medicine. She is the founding director of the 麻豆AV Center for Medicine, Ethics and Law and a widely published author. She has served as a consultant on a multitude of issues to the Canadian government, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations. She was also the first recipient of the UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science in 2004, and delivered the 2006 CBC Massey Lectures, which were published as a book under the title "The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit" (House of Anansi Press, 2006).
Professor Somerville has received Honorary Doctorates in Law from the University of Windsor (1992); Macquarie University, Australia (1993); St. Francis Xavier University (1996); and the University of Waterloo (2004); an Honorary Doctorate in Science from Ryerson University (2006); an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Mount Saint Vincent University (2009); and an Honorary Doctorate of Sacred Letters, St. Mark鈥檚 College, British Columbia (2010).
The Faculty of Law of 麻豆AV congratulates Professor Somerville on this newest honour.