Editing Neil MacCormick (section)

==Honours and awards==
In 1999, MacCormick was appointed [[Queen's Counsel]] 'honoris causa', and was knighted in the [[Queen's Birthday Honours]] in 2001 in recognition of services to scholarship in Law.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2001/birthday_honours_2001/1391003.stm |title=Birthday honours 2001: Honours in Scotland |work=BBC News |date=15 June 2001|access-date=15 June 2017}}</ref> In 2004 he was a recipient of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh|Royal Society of Edinburgh's]] Royal Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/royal-medal-awards-2512824 |title=Royal Medal awards |work=The Scotsman |date=3 September 2004 |access-date=14 January 2023}}</ref> He was an honorary fellow of [[Balliol College, Oxford]] and the recipient of honorary degrees from [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] (Canada), [[Uppsala University]] (Sweden), [[University of Macerata]] (Italy) and [[Saarland University]] (Germany), as well as from the University of Glasgow, [[Queen Margaret University]] and the University of Edinburgh.