Nottingham Trent University is to award an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) to Eleanor Sharpston QC for her work as a barrister, academic lawyer and one of Europe’s senior law officers.
A graduate of King's College, Cambridge, and post-graduate researcher at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, she proceeded to combine teaching and research at UCL and then Cambridge with practice at the Bar, specialising in EU Law and the European Convention of Human Rights.
She now sits as one of the eight Advocates General at the Court of Justice of the European Union, providing independent advisory judicial opinions on complex cases to assist the Court in its deliberations.
Dean of Nottingham Law School, part of Nottingham Trent University, Andrea Nollent, said: “We are delighted to be able to confer this degree upon Eleanor as recognition of her distinguished and inspirational career.”
