John Keown, DPhil, PhD, DCL, LLD retires after 22 years at Georgetown

After 22 very happy years in the post, John Keown is retiring from the Rose Kennedy Chair in Christian Ethics. John is spending his last semester on leave as a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, where he is working on his next book. His latest paper, on the Charlie Gard case, has just been published by the Ave Maria Law Review. 

In May, he was awarded the LLD degree (Doctor of Law) by Cambridge. The LLD is the university’s highest legal doctorate and is the equivalent of Oxford’s DCL (Doctor of Civil Law) he was awarded in 2015. The photo of John in his LLD gown was taken on 25 June in Trinity College, Cambridge, after the university’s annual Honorary Degree ceremony.

John wishes to express his deep gratitude to his colleagues, and to the staff, past and present, in the KIE; to his students, and to the university, for providing him with such a congenial and supportive environment in which to pursue his research and teaching. He is particularly grateful to the three KIE Directors under whom he has worked (Madison Powers, Maggie Little and Dan Sulmasy); to the marvellous librarians in the Bioethics Research Library (especially Patty Martin and before her Martina Darragh), and to the members of the IBC committee (especially Laura Bishop and Marti Patchell) on whose support he has depended in running the world-renowned Intensive Bioethics Course.