context1: He completed his lawyer apprenticeship in 1988 and gained a master of laws degree in 1991. In 1996 he gained a degree of <strong>doctor</strong> of laws (Ph.D) in the Faculty of Law of Istanbul University. In 1999, Dr. Ekinci became an associate <strong>professor</strong> of history of law by his dissertation on Ottoman courts.
context2: The following year he was appointed <strong>Professor</strong> of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. At the end of 1934 MacKaye was hospitalized at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he had a gall bladder surgery. Although the <strong>doctors</strong> predicted recovery, he died a week later.