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Peer review does not refer to doctoral dissertations. Those are not reviewed by peers. They are reviewed by faculty. Peer review occurs in academic journals, where one's work is reviewed by other scholars, and authors are considered peers, not students.

Eh?!
You mean submitting articles to peer-review journals is NOT something "mere students" do?
Careful here, ok?
Actually, with some exceptions, ANYBODY can submit for publication to peer-review journals.
I don't think that entitles Jack Fart from parts unknown to secret handshakes as a peer.

Handing someone a Ph.D. for a non-supervised, self-published book

supervised?
but you have to go through the entire process to build your portfolio AND you have to be examined to the satisfaction of a doctoral committee like many.

Agreed that students (or anyone else) can submit articles. They are treated as peers in those circumstances (as opposed to being supervised as students). But the effect is the same.

It doesn't matter what portfolio you build, the work that is the basis of the degree has to be academic, too. Not a self-published book. And in the case I'm thinking of, there was no committee, just one person. And no university review, because the university didn't actually exist. But I guess we agree.

I guess there is considerable latitude in evaluating what constitutes passable material, as professor fifteenboim demonstrates with his recycled work.
I doubt anyone who just published a ten volume hardcover series in the flagship collection of this university press is going to seek a degree by published work.