S.L. 327.569 Art. 6Honoris Causa Degrees 

(1) The honoris causa degree to be awarded shall be the most appropriate one, depending on the background and achievements of the individual being proposed.

(2) The University shall have the power to confer the following degrees on individuals for their outstanding honoris causa achievements:

(a) Doctor of Literature, (D.Litt.): awarded for honoris causa outstanding achievement, usually of a scholarly or creative nature, in literature and the arts, and including law;

(b) Doctor of Science, honoris causa (D.Sc.): awarded for outstanding achievement, usually of a scholarly or creative nature, in the pure and applied sciences, and including engineering and medicine;

(c) Doctor of Law, honoris causa (D.L.): awarded for outstanding or scholarly achievement in public service and in national or international governance;

(d) Doctor of Social Sciences, (D.S.S.): honoris causa awarded for outstanding achievement, usually of a scholarly or creative nature, in the field of social sciences;

(e) Doctor of Philosophy, (D. Phil.): awarded honoris causa for outstanding achievement in a general or pluri-disciplinary area of knowledge, not easily reducible to any one of the other categories mentioned above; and

(f) Master of Letters, honoris causa (M.Litt.).