Helen Clark receives Doctor of Laws degree from University of Toronto
Thank you to the University of Toronto for honouring me with the award of the Doctor of Laws degree.
As a high school student in the 1960s, I wondered if I might study law at university. But, careers advice in those days was negligible, and none of my family members had ever been to university, let alone studied law.
Instead, I majored in history and political studies, and completed my Master’s degree in the latter in the early 1970s. Both proved to be an excellent foundation for the career I went on to have in public life, although I could not have known that when I made those subject choices.