In 2000 the Senate of the University of Sydney conferred on Meagher—"scholar, lawyer, judge and individualist", as the citation to the Senate called him—the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD). The Senate was invited to confer the degree on Meagher for his intellectual contributions to the law in particular, referring to the classic text "Equity: Doctrines & Remedies", of which Meagher was and remains co-author, as having helped reverse the general decline of equity jurisprudence: "hat book has probably enjoyed greater esteem than any other Australian legal treatise, not only in universities but also with the Bench and Bar in this country, England and elsewhere. There is no equivalent to it in England, the United States or anywhere else".