Vivien Law spent all her academic career at the University of Cambridge.
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Vivien Law was educated at Lemoyne d'Iberville High School, a state school in Longueuil, Quebec, and at Trafalgar School for Girls, a private all-girls school in Montreal, Quebec.
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Vivien Law graduated with a double honours Bachelor of Arts degree in classics and German.
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Vivien Law then matriculated into Girton College, Cambridge to undertake postgraduate research under the supervision of Michael Lapidge.
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Vivien Law completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1979.
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Vivien Law spent all her academic career at the University of Cambridge.
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Vivien Law was a lecturer in the history of linguistics from 1984 to 1998, and Reader in the History of Linguistic Thought from 1998 to her death in 2002.
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Vivien Law was a research fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge from 1978 to 1980, a senior research fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from 1980 to 1984, teaching fellow at Sidney Sussex College from 1984 to 1997, and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1997 to 2002.
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In 1986, Vivien Law married Nicholas John Shackleton, a noted geologist and paleoclimatologist.
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Vivien Law died at her home in Cambridge on 20 February 2002, aged 47.
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In 1999, Vivien Law was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.
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The Vivien Law Prize was established in her memory in 2004 by the Henry Sweet Society and is awarded for "the best essay submitted on any topic within the history of linguistics".