Honors and Awards

2024 Certificate of Merit winners: 

 

 

• Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship: Immi Tallgren, ed., Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces? (Oxford University Press 2023)

• Certificate of Merit for high technical craftsmanship and utility to lawyers and scholars: Esmé Shirlow and Kiran Nasir Gore, eds., The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in Investor-State Disputes: History, Evolution and Future (Wolters Kluwer, 2022)

• Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law: Michael Byers and Aaron Boley, Who Owns Outer Space? International Law, Astrophysics, and the Sustainable Development of Space (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Tommaso Pavone, The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics Behind the Judicial Construction of Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

• Robert E. Dalton Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Foreign Relations Law: Sean D. Murphy and Edward T. Swaine, The Law of U.S. Foreign Relations (Oxford University Press, 2023)

2023 Certificate of Merit winners: 

 

 

• Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship: René Provost, Rebel Courts. The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents (Oxford University Press 2021)

• Certificate of Merit for high technical craftsmanship and utility to lawyers and scholars: Damilola S. Olawuyi Environmental Law in Arab States (Oxford University Press, 2022)

• Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law: Boyd van Dijk Preparing for War: The Making of the Geneva Conventions (Oxford University Press, 2022)

• Robert E. Dalton Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Foreign Relations Law: Lisa Ford, The King’s Peace (Harvard University Press, 2021) and Tom Ginsburg, Democracies and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

2022 Certificate of Merit winners: 

 

• Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship: Ntina Tzouvala, Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

• Certificate of Merit for high technical craftsmanship and utility to lawyers and scholars: Amal Clooney & Philippa Webb The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2021)

• Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law: Mira L. Siegelberg Statelessness: A Modern History (Harvard University Press, 2020)

• Robert E. Dalton Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Foreign Relations Law: Paul B. Stephan and Sarah H. Cleveland, eds., The Restatement and Beyond: The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Foreign Relations Law (Oxford University Press, 2020)

2021 Certificate of Merit winners: 

 

• Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship: Francine Hirsch, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II (Oxford University Press, 2020)

• Certificate of Merit for high technical craftsmanship and utility to lawyers and scholars: Janet Blake & Lucas Lixinski, eds., The 2003 UNESCO Intangible Heritage Convention: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2020)

• Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law: Jerome A. Cohen, William P. Alford & Chang-fa Lo, eds, Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation (Springer Nature, 2019)

• Robert E. Dalton Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Foreign Relations Law: Curtis A. Bradley, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Foreign Relations Law (Oxford University Press, 2019)

2020 Certificate of Merit winners: 

 

• Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship: Loveday Hodson & Troy Lavers, Feminist Judgments in International Law (Hart Publishing, 2019)

• Certificate of Merit for high technical craftsmanship and utility to lawyers and scholars: John Tobin, The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2019)

• Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law: Fernando Lusa Bordin, The Analogy between States and International Organizations (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

2019 Certificate of Merit winners: 

 

• Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship: Craig Forcese, Destroying the Caroline: The Frontier Raid that Reshaped the Right to War (Irwin Law Inc)

• Certificate of Merit for high technical craftsmanship and utility to practicing lawyers and scholars: Rosalyn Higgins, Philippa Webb, Dapo Akande, Sandesh Sivakumaran, and James Sloan, Oppenheim's International Law: United Nations Volumes I and II (Oxford)

• Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law: Maureen F. Tehan, Lee C. Godden, Margaret A. Young, and Kirsty A. Gover, The Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Indigenous and Forest Communities (Cambridge)

2019 Honorable Mentions:

 

• Certificate of Merit for high technical craftsmanship and utility to practicing lawyers and scholars: C. Donald Johnson, The Wealth of a Nation (Oxford)

• Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law: Orna Ben-Naftali, Michael Sfard, and Hedi Viterbo, The ABC of the OPT (Cambridge)

2018 Certificate of Merit winners: 

 

• Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship: Anthea Roberts, Is International Law International? (Oxford)

• Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law: Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée, and Lavanya Rajamani, International Climate Change Law, (Oxford)

• Certificate of Merit for high technical craftsmanship and utility to practicing lawyers and scholars: Jürgen Basedow, Giesela Rühl, Franco Ferrari, and Pedro de Miguel Asensio, Encyclopedia of Private International Law (Edward Elgar)

2017 Certificate of Merit winners: 

 

• Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship: David Sloss, The Death of Treaty Supremacy:  An Invisible Constitutional Change (Oxford)

• Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law: Petros Mavroidis, The Regulation of International Trade, Volumes One and Two (The MIT Press)

• Certificate of Merit for high technical craftsmanship and utility to practicing lawyers and scholars: Andrew Clapham, Paola Gaeta, and Marco Sassóli, The 1949 Geneva Conventions: A Commentary (Oxford)

2016 Certificate of Merit winners: 

 

• Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship: Isabel V. Hull, A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law During the Great War (Cornell, 2014)

• Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law: Odette Lienau, Rethinking Sovereign Debt: Politics, Reputation, and Legitimacy in Modern Finance (Harvard, 2014)

• Certificate of Merit for high technical craftsmanship and utility to practicing lawyers and scholars: William A. Schabas, The European Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary (Oxford, 2015)