Helena Kennedy has received many honours for her achievements. She was appointed as Queen's Counsel in 1991, and became a Bencher (Fellow) of Gray's Inn in 2000. The following year, she was elected a member of the French Académie Universelle des Cultures.

She has received 19 honorary doctorates from universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland and two from Russia (see below).

She was awarded the UK 'Woman of Europe' award in 1995, and a 'Making a world of difference' award from the National Federation of Women's Institutes in 1996. She was also the recipient of The Times' 'Lifetime Achievement in the Law' award from the Women Lawyers' Conference in 1996.


Honorary doctorates of law

UK
De Montfort University, 2004
Glasgow Caledonian University, 2001
Keele University, 1994
Lancaster University, 1994
Leeds Metropolitan University, 1995
Middlesex University, 2003
Open University, 1997
Oxford Brookes University, 2001
Robert Gordon University, 2002
Tavistock Centre (under the auspices
     of the University of East London), 1997
University of Aberdeen, 2000
University of Abertay Dundee, 1997
University of Bristol, 1997
University of Derby, 1998
University of Leicester, 1998
University of Strathclyde, 1992
University of Teeside, 1993
University of Wolverhampton, 1997
University of York, 1999

Russia
Polytechnic University of Tomsk, 2002
Judicial Academy of Russia, 2002

Other honours and awards

• Rose Sheinberg scholar-in-residence, New York University School of Law, 2003. Also 9th Annual Program Lecturer, The Retreat from Civil Liberties: The United States and the United Kingdom.
• Hamlyn Trust lecturer, 'Legal Conundrums in Our Brave New World', Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2002.
• Honorary fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, 1997.
• The Times 'Lifetime Achievement in the Law' award, 1996.
• 'Campaigning and Influencing' award, one of the 'Making a World of Difference' awards from the National Federation of Women's Institutes – for her work on human rights, 1996.
• UK 'Woman of Europe' award, 1995.
• Women's Network Award, for her work on women and justice.

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