On 4/25/06, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/25/06, Garion1000 garion1000@gmail.com wrote:
And a doctors of law degree is almost always a honorary degree. I wonder
why
they picked law for that. The [[Doctor of Laws]] article doesn't explain it.
But [[honorary degree|honourary degree]] does - apparently at many American universities, LLD is only given on an honorary basis.
I would have expected Jimbo to get a Doctorate of Letters, if they were going to give him an honourary degree, that would be the more usual thing for someone like Jimbo (see [[Doctor of Letters]]).
I agree - I was surprised that it was a JD and not an LLD. But I'm sure they have their reasons...though, despite all the wranglings, I would see Wikipedia as more of a revolutionary contribution to the world of writing than to the world of law (WP:NLT and WP:OFFICE aside)
Ian