Graces

Grace submitted to the Regent House on 15 February 2017

The Council submits the following Grace to the Regent House. This Grace, unless it is withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 103) will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 24 February 2017.

1. That the recommendation in paragraph 3 of the Report of the General Board, dated 18 January 2017, on the establishment of a Professorship of International Law (Reporter, 6452, 2016–17, p. 337) be approved.

Graces to be submitted to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on 25 February 2017

The Council has sanctioned the submission of the following Graces to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on Saturday, 25 February 2017.1

1. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Law honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Sir Malcolm John Grant, C.B.E., M.A., F.Ac.S.S., Honorary Fellow of Clare College, formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Land Economy and sometime President and Provost of University College London, Chancellor of the University of York and Chair of NHS England, lawyer and university leader.

2. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Law honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Jonathan Adair, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, B.A., Hon. F.R.S., Hon. F.R.S.E., Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, sometime Rede Lecturer, former Chair of the Financial Services Authority, past Director of the Confederation of British Industry and formerly Chair of the Climate-Change Committee, economist and businessman.

3. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Jean-Marie Lehn, For.Mem.R.S., Hon. F.R.S.C., formerly Alexander Todd Visiting Professor in Chemistry, Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and Emeritus Professor, University of Strasbourg, Honorary Professor of Chemistry, Collège de France, Paris, Nobel Laureate, chemist.

4. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Eric Stark Maskin, M.A., F.B.A., Honorary Fellow of St John’s College and of Jesus College, formerly visiting student of Darwin College, Adams University Professor and formerly Louis Berkman Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Director of the Advanced School in Economics at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Nobel Laureate, economist.

5. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Janet Rossant, C.C., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.C., of Darwin College, President and Scientific Director of the Gairdner Foundation, University Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist and Chief of Research Emerita, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, developmental biologist.

6. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Dame Stephanie Shirley, D.B.E., F.R.Eng., F.B.C.S., Honorary Fellow of Murray Edwards College, former President of the British Computer Society and sometime Master of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, information technologist, businesswoman, and philanthropist.

7. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Sophie Wilson, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.Eng., F.B.C.S., Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, co-designer of the Acorn Microcomputer and ARM Processor, designer of the Firepath Processor, Senior Technical Director, Broadcom, computer scientist and software engineer.

8. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Manuel Castells, F.B.A., Honorary Fellow of St John’s College and Director of Research in the Department of Sociology, University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Research Professor, the Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, Balzan Laureate, sociologist.

E. M. C. RAMPTON, Acting Registrary

END OF THE OFFICIAL PART OF THE ‘REPORTER’