Honorary Degrees Since 1702

Name Degreesort descending Year
Pierrepont, Edwards Doctor of Laws 1873
McCurdy, Charles Johnson Doctor of Laws 1868
Trumbull, Joseph Doctor of Laws 1849
Griswold, Roger Doctor of Laws 1812
Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford Doctor of Laws 1892
Newcomb, Simon Doctor of Laws 1875
Ag nor, tienne Doctor of Laws 1862
Walker, James Doctor of Laws 1853
Swift, Zephaniah Doctor of Laws 1817
Acheson, Dean G. Doctor of Laws 1962
Kennan, George Frost Doctor of Laws 1950
Finch, Francis Miles Doctor of Laws 1889
Mulford, Elisha Doctor of Laws 1872
Sims, Admiral William Sowden Doctor of Laws 1919
Green, Edith Starrett Doctor of Laws 1965
Stewart, Potter Doctor of Laws 1959
Lovett, Robert A. Doctor of Laws 1952
Shapiro, Harold Tafler Doctor of Laws 1988
Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan Doctor of Laws 1921
Loomis, Dwight Doctor of Laws 1896
Posner, Richard A. Doctor of Laws 1996
Mitchell, William Dewitt Doctor of Laws 1929
Caetani, Prince Gelasio Doctor of Laws 1923
Briggs, LeBaron Russell Doctor of Laws 1917
Hills, Carla Doctor of Laws 2008
Delafield, Francis Doctor of Laws 1890
Weinstein, Jack B. Doctor of Laws 1994
Reischauer, Edwin O. Doctor of Laws 1967
Flint, Austin Doctor of Laws 1881
Olmstead, Hawley Doctor of Laws 1862
Posner, Michael H. Doctor of Laws 2014
Calabresi, Guido Doctor of Laws
Hart, Jr.,Henry M. Doctor of Laws 1969
Leffingwell, Russell Cornell Doctor of Laws 1950
Gilman, Daniel Coit Doctor of Laws 1889
Buckingham, William Alfred Doctor of Laws 1866
Sheffield, James Rockwell Doctor of Laws 1925
Snow, William Josiah Doctor of Laws 1919
Griggs, John William Doctor of Laws 1899
Lusk, William Thompson Doctor of Laws 1894
Furniss, Edgar S. Doctor of Laws 1958
Moses, Robert Doctor of Laws 1952
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Doctor of Laws 1934
van Devanter, Willis Doctor of Laws 1927
Hughes, Charles Evans Doctor of Laws 1915
Davis, John William Doctor of Laws 1921
Sperry, Charles Stillman Doctor of Laws 1909
Lanman, Charles Rockwell Doctor of Laws 1902
Peckham, Rufus Wheeler Doctor of Laws 1896
Wechsler, Herbert Doctor of Laws 1991