Maastricht Prize for International Law

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The Maastricht Prize for International Law (until 2016 The Hague Prize for International Law ) is an award of Maastricht University for outstanding contributions, in the form of publications or practical activities, to the development of international or private international law or to the promotion of the rule of law worldwide .

history

The award , originally set up as The Hague Prize for International Law in 2002 by the Stichting Haagse Prijs voor Internationaal Recht , a foundation based in the Netherlands , could be awarded to natural or legal persons . The simultaneous allocation to several recipients was possible. The award was established to honor the special international role of The Hague as a “City of Peace, Justice and Security”, which has emerged from its more than 100-year history as a location for important international meetings such as the Hague Peace Conferences and the Hague International Conference Private law and as the seat of a number of institutions of the international legal order such as the International Court of Justice , the International Criminal Court , the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia , the Hague Academy of International Law and the Permanent Court of Arbitration .

The prize consisted of a medal of honor, a certificate and prize money of 50,000 euros, financed by the city of The Hague . The decision on the award was made by the foundation's board of directors after selection by a nomination committee, to which proposals could be submitted after an advertisement in a number of specialist journals . The members of the committee could also make their own suggestions. At least three months before the planned award ceremony, which took place in The Hague's Peace Palace in the presence of the city's mayor, the committee submitted a reasoned proposal to the foundation's board of directors for the candidate or candidates it considered suitable. The prize was first awarded on June 18, 2004 to the Israeli diplomat and lawyer Shabtai Rosenne . The award took place every two to three years.

In 2016 the University of Maastricht accepted the award, which is now financed by the Limburg University Fund . Following this realignment, the award has been given to a leading academic (senior academic) since 2016 for outstanding contributions to public or private international law. The prize is now endowed with 10,000 euros and is to be awarded every five years. In the intervening years - starting in 2018 - a prize worth 3,000 euros is to be awarded to young researchers in the field of human rights .

Award winners

The Hague Prize Maastricht Prize

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