ASIL Certificate of Merit and Special Book Awards
| 2009 |  | The Historical Foundations of World Order: The Tower and the Arena , Douglas Johnston | |
| (Preeminent Contribution To Creative Scholarship) (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) | ||
| International Territorial Administration: How Trusteeship and the Civilizing Mission Never Went Away , Ralph Wilde | |||
| (Specialized Area Of International Law) (Oxford University Press) | |||
| Commentary On The Rome Statute of The International Criminal Court, 2d Ed. , Otto Triffterer | |||
| (High Technical Craftsmanship And Utility To Practicing Lawyers And Scholars) (Hart Publishing) | |||
| 2008 | | Buying Social Justice: Equality, Government Procurement, and Legal Change, Christopher McCrudden | |
| (Preeminent Contribution To Creative Scholarship) (Oxford University Press) | ||
| The Threat of Force in International Law, Nikolas Stürchler | |||
| (Specialized Area Of International Law) (Cambridge University Press) | |||
| State Succession to International Responsibility, Patrick Dumberry | |||
| (High Technical Craftsmanship And Utility To Practicing Lawyers And Scholars) (Martinus Nijhoff) | |||
| 2007 | | Law in Times of Crisis, Oren Gross and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin | |
| (creative scholarship) (Cambridge University Press) | ||
| The Rights of Refugees Under International Law , James C. Hathaway | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship and high utility to practicing lawyers and scholars) (Cambridge University Press) | |||
| The UN International Criminal Tribunals, William Schabas | |||
| (specialized area of international law) (Cambridge University Press). | |||
| War and the Law of Nations , Stephen C. Neff | |||
| (honorable mention) (Cambridge University Press) | |||
| Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness, Mark Freeman | |||
| (honorable mention) (Cambridge University Press). | |||
| 2006 | | International Organizations and Their Exercise of Sovereign Powers, Dan Sarooshi | |
| (creative scholarship) (Oxford 2005) | ||
| The Constitutionalization of the World Trade Organization: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Community in the International Trading System, Stefan Trechsel | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship and high utility to practicing lawyers and scholars) (Oxford 2005) | |||
| The Constitutionalization of the World Trade Organization: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Community in the International Trading System, Deborah Z. Cass | |||
| (specialized area of international law, in this case international trade law) (Oxford 2005). | |||
| International Organizations as Law-makers, José E. Alvarez | |||
| (honorable mention) (Oxford 2005) | |||
| Crimes Against Humanity: A Normative Account, Larry May | |||
| (honorable mention) (Cambridge 2005). | |||
| 2005 | | Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order, Gerry Simpson | |
| (creative scholarship) (Cambridge University Press 2004) | ||
| The World Trade Organization: Law, Practice, and Policy, Mitsuo Matsushita, Thomas J. Schoenbaum and Petros C. Mavroidis | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship and high utility to practicing lawyers and scholars) (Oxford University Press 2003) | |||
| Elements of War Crimes Under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Sources and Commentary, Knut Dörmann with contributions by Louise Doswald-Beck and Robert Kolb | |||
| (specialized area of international law) (Cambridge University Press 2003). | |||
| 2004 | | The Competing Jurisdictions of International Courts and Tribunals, Yuval Shany | |
| (creative scholarship) (Oxford University Press 2003) (International Courts and Tribunals Series) | ||
| Introduction to International Criminal Law, M. Cherif Bassiouni | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship and high utility to practicing lawyers and scholars) (Transnational Publishers, Inc. 2003) | |||
| Democratic Accountability and the Use of Force in International Law, Charlotte Ku and Harold K. Jacobson | |||
| (specialized area of international law) (Cambridge University Press 2003). | |||
| 2003 | The Health of Nations, Philip Allott | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Cambridge University Press) | |||
| Völkerrecht und Machtpolitik: Georg Schwarzenberger (1980-1991), Stephanie Steinle | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Nomos) | |||
| United States Practice in International Law: Volume 1, 1999-2001, Sean D. Murphy | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Cambridge University Press) | |||
| Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law, Karen Knop | |||
| (specialized area of international law) - (Cambridge University Press) | |||
| 2002 | The Gentle Civilizer of Nations, The Rise and fall of International Law 1870-1960, Martti Koskenniemi | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Cambridge University Press 2001) | |||
| The Law of International Watercourses, Non-Navigational Uses, Stephen McCaffrey | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Oxford University Press 2001) | |||
| Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention and International Law, Simon Chesterman | |||
| (specialized area) - (Oxford University Press 2001) | |||
| 2001 | The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis, Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (University of Manchester Press, 2000) | |||
| The United Nations and the Development of Collective Security: The Delegation by the UN Security Council of its Chapter VII Powers, Danesh Sarooshi | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Oxford University Press, 1999) | |||
| The Network Inside Out, Annelise Riles | |||
| (specialized area) - (University of Michigan Press, 2000) | |||
| 2000 | Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence, Martha Minow | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Beacon Press, 1999) | |||
| The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting and Intent, Johannes Morsink | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999) | |||
| The 1899 Hague Peace Conference: The Parliament of Man, The Federation of the World, Arthur C.G.M. Eyffinger | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Kluwer, 1999) | |||
| 1999 | L'utilisation du 'Raisonnable' par le Juge International: Discours Juridique, Raison, et Contradictions, Olivier Corten | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Editions Bruylant, 1997) | |||
| The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2 Volumes), Virginia Morris and Michael P. Scharf | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Transnational Publishers, Inc., 1998) | |||
| Governmental Illegitimacy in International Law, Brad R. Roth | |||
| (specialized area) - (Oxford University Press, 1999) | |||
| 1998 | Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy, Steven R. Ratner and Jason S. Abrams | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Clarendon Press, 1997) | |||
| The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, Charles N. Brower and Jason D. Brueschke | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1997) | |||
| Procedure at International Conferences: A Study of the Rules of Procedure of International Intergovernmental Conferences, Robbie Sabel | |||
| (special mention) - (Cambridge University Press, 1997) | |||
| 1997 | Determination of Peoples, Antonio Cassese | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Cambridge University Press, 1996) | |||
| Humanitarian Intervention, Sean Murphy | |||
| (creative scholarship) - (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996) | |||
| International Court of Justice, Arthur Eyffinger | |||
| (special award) - (Kluwer, 1996) | |||
| 1996 | Fairness in International Law and Institutions, Thomas M. Franck | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Oxford University Press, 1995) | |||
| Commentary on the Charter of the United Nations, Bruno E. Simma | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Oxford University Press, 1995) | |||
| 1995 | Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It, Rosalyn Higgins | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Clarendon Press, 1994) | |||
| Parliamentary Participation in the Making and Operation of Treaties: A Comparative Study, Frederick M. Abbott and Stefan Riesenfeld, Editors | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Martinus Nijhoff, 1994) | |||
| 1994 | Political Questions/Judicial Answers: Does the Rule of Law Apply to Foreign Affairs?, Thomas M. Franck | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Princeton University Press, 1993) | |||
| Systems of Control in International Adjudication and Arbitration, W. Michael Reisman | |||
| (creative scholarship) - (Duke University Press, 1993) | |||
| International Maritime Boundaries (Volumes 1 and 2), Jonathan I. Charney and Lewis M. Alexander | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1993) | |||
| 1993 | The Dynamics of International Law in Conflict Resolution, Joaquin Tacsan | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Martinus Nijhoff, 1992) | |||
| Handbook of Gatt Dispute Settlement, Pierre Pescatore, William J. Davey and Andreas F. Lowenfeld | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Transnational Juris Publications, 1992) | |||
| 1992 | International Law in Theory and Practice, Oscar Schachter | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Martinus Nijhoff, 1991) | |||
| Cases and Materials on the Regulation of International Business and Economic Relations, John F. Murphy and Alan C. Swan | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Matthew Bender and Company, Inc., 1991) | |||
| 1991 | Collective Responses to Illegal Acts in International Law: United Nations Action in the Question of Southern Rhodesia, Vera Gowlland-Debbas | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Martinus Nijhoff, 1990) | |||
| A Guide to the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, Howard M. Holtzmann and Joseph E. Neuhaus | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, 1989) | |||
| 1990 | In Fairness to Future Generations: International Law, Common Patrimony, and Intergenerational Equity, Edith Brown Weiss | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Transnational Publications, 1989) | |||
| Repertory of International Arbitral Jurisprudence (Volumes I and II), Vincent Coussirat-Coustere and Pierre M. Eisemann | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1989) | |||
| 1989 | International Economic Sanctions, Barry E. Carter | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Cambridge University Press, 1988) | |||
| The Law of the International Civil Service, C.F. Amerasinghe | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Oxford University Press, 1988) | |||
| 1988 | International Arbitration: Three Salient Problems, Stephen M. Schwebel | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Grotius Publications, Ltd., 1989) | |||
| The International Court of Justice at a Crossroads, Lori Fisler Damrosch, Editor | |||
| (creative scholarship) - Transnational Publishers, Inc., 1987) | |||
| 1987 | Human Rights Law Making in the United Nations, Theodor Meron | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Oxford University, Clarendon Press, 1986) | |||
| 1986 | Nation Against Nation -- What Happened to the UN Dream and What the U.S. Can Do About It, Thomas M. Franck | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Oxford University Press, 1985) | |||
| Immigration: Process and Policy, Thomas A. Aleinikoff and David A. Martin | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (West Publishing Company, 1985) | |||
| 1985 | The Rules of the Game, Kenneth Dam | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (University of Chicago Press, 1985) | |||
| Law in Radically Different Cultures, J. H. Barton, J. L. Gibbs, Jr., V. H. Li, and H. H. Merryman | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (West Publishing, 1983) | |||
| 1984 | Visions of World Order: Between State Power and Human Justice, Julius Stone | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984) | |||
| Guide to International Human Rights Practice, Hurst Hannum, ed., for the International Human Rights Law Group of the Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (University of Virginia Press, 1983) | |||
| 1983 | The Teacher in International Law (Teachings and Teaching), Manfred Lachs | ||
| (creative scholarship) - (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1982) | |||
| Antarctica and International Law: A Collection of Interstate and National Documents, W. M. Bush | |||
| (high technical craftsmanship) - (Oceana Publications, Inc., 1982) | |||
| 1982 | Improving Compliance with International Law, Roger Fisher | ||
(creative scholarship) - (The University of Virginia Press, 1981) International Law and World Order, Burns H. Weston, Richard A. Falk, and Anthony D'Amato (high technical craftsmanship) - (West Publishing Company, 1980) 1981 The Creation of States in International Law, James Crawford (creative scholarship) - (Oxford University, Clarendon Press, 1979) United States Foreign Relations Law: Documents and Sources (two volumes), Michael J. Glennon and Thomas M. Franck (high technical craftsmanship) - (Oceana Publications, Inc., 1980) 1980 World Public Order of the Environment: Towards an International Ecological Law and Organization, Jan Schneider (creative scholarship) - (University of Toronto Press, 1979) Pollution, Politics and International Law: Tankers at Sea, Michael M'Gonigle and Mark W. Zacher (high technical craftsmanship) - (University of California Press, 1979) The International Arbitral Process: Public and Private (five volumes), Gillis Wetter (high technical craftsmanship) - (Oceana Publications, Inc., 1979) 1979 United States Legislation on Foreign Relations and International Commerce 1789-1969 (4 volumes) Igor I. Kavass and Michael J. Blake (technical craftsmanship) - (William S. Hein & Company, 1977-78) 1978 Droit International Public (three volumes), Charles Rousseau (creative scholarship) - (Receuil Sirey, 1970, 1974, 1977) The Structure of the United National General Assembly: Its Committees, Commissions and Other Organisms, 1946-1973 (three volumes), Blanche Finley (high technical craftsmanship) - (Oceana Publications, 1977) 1977 The Future of the International Court of Justice (two volumes), Leo Gross, Ed. (creative scholarship) - (Oceana Publications, 1976) Die International Konzession, Peter Fischer (technical craftsmanship) - (Springer Verlag, 1974) A Collection of International Concessions & Related Instruments, Peter Fischer (high technical craftsmanship) - (Oceana Publications, 1976) 1976 Principles of Public International Law (2nd ed.), Ian Brownlie (creative scholarship) - (Oxford University, Clarendon Press, 1973) People's China and International Law: A Documentary Study, Jerome Cohen and Hungdah Chiu (eds.) (high technical craftsmanship) - (1974) Note: The regulations were changed in 1976 to permit two awards, one for creative scholarship and one for high technical craftsmanship and high utility to practicing lawyers. 1975 Digest of United States Practice in International Law, Arthur W. Rovine, Ed. (1973) 1974 Studies in International Law, F. A. Mann - (Oxford University, Clarendon Press, 1973) 1973 The Future of the International Legal Order (four volumes 1969-72), Cyril E. Black and
Richard A. Falk, Eds. 1972 International Law Reports (a continuing series), Elihu Lauterpacht and (posthumously)
Sir Hersch Lauterpacht 1971 United Nations Peacekeeping, 1946-1967: Documents and Commentary (vols. 1 & 2, 1969-70),
Rosalyn Higgins 1970 International Law in Historical Perspective (vols. 1 & 2, 1968-69), J.H.W. Verzijl 1969 Legal Order in a Violent World, Richard A. Falk (1968) 1968 The Law and Practice of the International Court, Shabtai Rosenne (1965) 1967 Diritto Internazionale (5 vols. last one 1965), Angelo P. Sereni 1966 Volkerrecht (2 vols. 1964), Wilhem Wengler 1965 Digest of International Law (volumes 1-3) (1963-64), Marjorie Whiteman, Ed. 1964 Wörterbuch des Völkerrechts (2nd ed., 4vols. 1960-62), Hans-Jurgen Scholchauer, Ed. 1963 Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States (2nd), Adrian S. Fisher, Covey T.[e]
Oliver, Cecil J. Olmstead, I.N.P. Stokes & Joseph M. Sweeney - (American Law Institute) 1962 Studies in World Public Order, Myres S. McDougal & Associates (1960) 1961 Völkerrecht (4th ed.), Alfred Verdross (1959) 1960 The Development of International Law by the International Court, Sir Hersch
Lauterpacht (1958) 1959 The Common Law of Mankind, C. Wilfred Jenks (1958) 1958 No award made. 1957 No award made. 1956 Legal Controls of International Conflict, Julius Stone (1954) 1955 Théories et Réalités en Droit International Public, Charles de Visscher (1955) 1954 The Thirty-First Year of the World Court, 47 AJIL 1 (1953), Manley O. Hudson 1953 No award made. 1952 The Law of the United Nations, Hans Kelsen (1950) Note: The Certificate of Merit, a single award for the most distinguished work in the field of international law in the current year or in the immediately preceding years, was initiated in 1952.
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Medals have been awarded to:
| 1956 Manley O. Hudson 1959 Lord McNair 1964 Philip C. Jessup 1966 Charles De Visscher 1970 Paul Guggenheim 1976 Myres S. McDougal 1978 Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga 1981 Richard Reeve Baxter 1981 Oscar Schachter 1982 Hardy Cross Dillard 1984 Suzanne Bastid 1985 Marjorie M. Whiteman 1986 Leo Gross 1993 Robert Y. Jennings | 1995 Louis Henkin 1996 Louis B. Sohn 1997 John R. Stevenson 1998 Rosalyn Higgins 1999 Shabtai Rosenne 2000 Stephen M. Schwebel 2001 Prosper Weil 2002 Thomas Buergenthal 2003 Thomas M. Franck 2004 W. Michael Reisman 2005 Sir Elihu Lauterpacht 2006 Theodor Meron 2007 Andreas Lowenfeld 2008 John Jackson 2009 Charles N. Brower |
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Butcher medals have been awarded to:
| 1997 Thomas Buergenthal 1998 Gabrielle Kirk McDonald 1999 Baltasar Garazon 2000 Radhika Coomaraswamy 2001 Louis Henkin 2002 Sonia Picado | 2003 Olara A. Otunnu 2004 Carla del Ponte 2005 Pieter Hendrik Kooijmans, Sir Nigel Rodley and Theodoor Cornelis van Boven 2006 Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin 2007 Antonio Cançado Trindade and José Miguel Vivanco 2008 Virginia Leary 2009 Monica Pinto |
| 1959 Louis Podesta Costa, Argentina 1960 Sir Muhammed Zafrulla Khan, Pakistan 1961 Kotara Tanaka, Japan 1962 Julius Stone, Australia 1963 Paul Guggenheim, Switzerland 1964 Walter Hallstein, Germany 1965 Sir Louis Nwachukwu Mbanefo, Nigeria 1966 Richardo J. Alfaro, Panama 1967 No nomination 1968 Eduardo Jimenez de Arechega, Uruguay 1969 Charles Rousseau, France 1970 Roberto Ago, Italy 1971 Ambassador Edvardo Hambro, Norway 1972 Suzanne Bastid, France 1973 Taslim Olawale Elias, Nigeria 1974 Sir Gerald Gray Fitzmaurice, England 1975 Shigeru Oda, Japan 1976 Shabtai Rosenne, Israel 1977 Manfred Lachs, Poland 1978 Sir Humphrey Waldock, England 1979 Hans Blix, Austria 1980 F. A. Mann, England 1981 Derek W. Bowett, England 1982 Richard Orme, Lord Wilberforce, England | 1983 Andre Gros, France 1984 Paul Reuter, France 1985 Nagendra Singh, India 1986 Sir Robert Jennings, England 1987 Sir Ian Sinclair, England 1988 Jose Sette-Camara, Brazil 1989 Rudolph Bernhardt, Greece 1991 Krzysztof Skubiszewski, Poland 1992 Rosalyn Higgins, England 1993 Elihu Lauterpacht, England 1994 Rene-Jean Dupuy, France 1995 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egypt 1996 Ronald St.John Macdonald, Canada 1997 Mohammed Shahabuddeen, Guyana 1998 Mary Robinson, Ireland 1999 Kofi Annan, Ghana 2000 Louise Arbour, Canada 2001 Georges Abi-Saab, Switzerland 2002 Ibrahim Shihata, Egypt 2003 Navanethem Pillay, South Africa 2004 Ian Brownlie, England 2005 Florentino Feliciano , Phillipines 2006 Hisashi Owada 2007 Brigitte Stern 2008 John Dugard 2009 Hans Corell |