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Manage Interest Group Memberships Interest Group Awards The Interest Groups of the American Society of International Law may choose to recognize individuals within the field of international law for contributions, scholarship, or activities. These awards are announced each year at the Society's Annual Meeting, during the Annual Assembly. 2025 Recipients Dispute Resolution Interest Group – Best Article in International Dispute Resolution: Fabian Eichberger , “Informal Communications to the International Court of Justice in Cases of Non-appearance” (L. & Practice of Int’l Cts & Tribunals, 2023). Intellectual Property Law Interest Group – Best Published Work : Marketa Trimble , The EU Geo-Blocking Regulation: A Commentary (Edward Elgar, 2024). Hon. Mention: Christine Haight Farley , “Furthering Interests Abroad: Advancing Trademark Rights in the Americas in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century” (published in The Silent Peacemaker: Intellectual Property Rights and the Interwar International Legal Order, 1919–1939 (Brill Nijhoff, 2025)). International Criminal Law Interest Group – Scholarship Prize: Patryk I. Labuda , “Countering Imperialism in International Law: Examining the Special Tribunal for Aggression Against Ukraine through a Post-Colonial Eastern European Lens” (Yale J. Int’l L., 2024). International Legal Research Interest Group – Jus Gentium Award: International Cyber Law Toolkit International Refugee Law Interest Group – Student Writing Competition: Ahmad Ibrahim , “Administrative and Judicial Biopolitics – Analysing the Special Prohibitions on Marriage Between Bangladeshis and Rohingya Refugees.” International Law and Social Sciences Interest Group Best Article: Ezgi Yildiz and Umut Yüksel , “The Defocalizing Effect of International Courts: Evidence from Maritime Delimitation Practices” (Rev. Int’l Orgs., 2024). Hon. Mention: Leslie Johns and Francesca Parente , “The Politics of Punishment: Why Dictators Join the International Criminal Court” (Int’l Studies Q., 2024). Best Book: Margaret L. Boittin , The Regulation of Prostitution in China: Law in the Everyday Lives of Sex Workers, Police Officers, and Public Health Officials (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Best Paper Presented at 2024 ILASS Research Conference: Janka Deli , “Economic Growth Despite the Erosion of the Rule of Law?” Myung Jung Kim , “The Narrowing Path: Rebel Leader Exile in the Age of Accountability.” International Law and Technology Interest Group –Scholarship Prize: Jack Wright Nelson , “Large Language Models and the Treaty Interpretation Game” (Cambridge Int’l L. J., 2023). Hon. Mention: Pierre Walkers , Christine Frison, and Sylvain Aubry, “A Roadmap to Equity in Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention, and Response” (J. Global Health, 2024). Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict Francis Lieber Prize (Article): G. Blair Kuplic and Jonathan Sawmiller, “Humanity on the final frontier: Challenges in applying international humanitarian law to modern military space operations” (Int’l Rev. Red Cross, 2024). Hon. Mention: Benjamin R. Farley and Alka Pradhan , “Establishing a Practical Test for the End of Non-International Armed Conflict” (Int’l Rev. Red Cross, 2024). Hon. Mention: Hannes Jöbstl and Dean Rosenberg , “The Humanization of War Reparations: Combatant Deaths and Compensation in Unlawful Wars” (45 Mich. J. Int’l L. 39 (2024)). Francis Lieber Prize (Book): Alexander Wentker , Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2024). Richard Baxter Prize: Major Steven van de Put and Major Anne-Rixt Siemensma , “A Giant Leap for Humankind: Bridging Space Law and International Humanitarian Law” (62 Military L. & L. War Rev. (2024)). Women in International Law Interest Group Prominent Woman in International Law Award: Viviana Krsticevic , Center for Justice and International Law Scholarship Prize Rebecca Cook (ed.), Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023). 2024 Recipients Dispute Resolution Interest Group: Best Article in International Dispute Resolution: Veronika Fikfak , "Against Settlement before the European Court of Human Rights," 20 INT’L J. CON. L. 942 International Law and Technology Interest Group – Inaugural Scholarship Prize: Mark Jia , "Authoritarian Privacy," 91 UNIV. CHICAGO L. REV. (2024) Honorable Mention : Lena Riecke , "Unmasking the Term 'Dual Use' in EU Spyware Export Control," 34 EUR. J. INT’L L. 697 (2023) International Legal Research Interest Group: The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) International Refugee Law Interest Group: Student Writing Competition: Sara Inaz Poursafer , "Where Do Refugees Stand? The Case for Reconsidering ‘At Risk Population" in COVAX’s COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution." Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict: Richard R. Baxter Military Prize: Margaret Materna , "Adjusting the Aperture: The International Law Case for Qualifying Unmanned Vessels as Warships," 100 INT’L L. STUD. 452 (2023) Francis Lieber Book Prize: Marcelo Prieto Rudolphy , The Morality of the Laws of War: War, Law, and Murder (OUP 2023) Francis Lieber Article Prize: Kieran Tinkler , "Does International Humanitarian Law Confer Undue Legitimacy on Violence in War?," 100 INT’L L. STUD. 605 (2023) Honorable Mention: Tilman Rodenhäuser , "The Legal Boundaries of (Digital) Information or Psychological Operations Under International Humanitarian Law," 100 INT’L L. STUD. 541 (2023) Women in International Law Interest Group: Prominent Woman in International Law: Karima Bennoune 2023 Recipients Dispute Resolution Interest Group: Best Article in International Dispute Resolution: Fuad Zarbiyev , "On the Judge Centredness of the International Legal Self" International Legal Research Interest Group: 2022 Jus Gentium Award: The ICC Legal Tools Database International Refugee Law Interest Group: Student Writing Competition: Laurence LeBlanc , "Taking Protests Seriously" Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict: Richard R. Baxter Military Prize: Ronald Alcala , "Cultural Evolution: Protecting 'Digital Cultural Property' in Armed Conflict" Francis Lieber Book Prize: Ka Lok Yip , The Use of Force against Individuals in War under International Law – A Social Ontological Approach Francis Lieber Article Prize: Yahli Shereshevsky , "International Humanitarian Lawmaking and New Military Technologies"; Honorable Mention: Marco Longobardo , "The Duties of Occupying Powers in Relation to the Prevention and Control of Contagious Diseases through the interplay between International Humanitarian Law and the Right to Health" Women in International Law Interest Group: Prominent Woman in International Law: Gillian Triggs WILIG Scholarship Prize (Article): Ramona Vijeyarasa , "Quantifying CEDAW: Concrete Tools for Enhancing Accountability for Women's Rights" WILIG Scholarship Prize (Book): Valerie Oosterveld , Indira Rosenthal , and Susana SáCouto (co-editors), Gender and International Criminal Law Honorable Mention: Catherine O'Rourke , Women's Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law 2022 Recipients International Legal Research Interest Group: 2022 Jus Gentium Award: NATLEX International Legal Theory Interest Group 2022 scholarship prize and honorable mention: Honorable Mention: Melissa Stewart , "A New Law on Earth' Hannah Arendt and the Vision for a Positive Legal Framework to Guarantee a Right to Have Rights" Scholarship Prize: Tom Dannenbaum , "Siege Starvation: A War Crime of Societal Torture" International Refugee Law Interest Group : Student Writing Competition: Charlotte Labrosse , "Humanitarian Visas as a Legal Pathway to International Protection in Europe" Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict: Richard R. Baxter Military Prize: SGM Asaf Lubin , "The Reasonable Intelligence Agency" Francis Lieber Book Prize: Jelena Plamenac , Unravelling Unlawful Confinement in Contemporary Armed Conflicts Francis Lieber Article Prize: Tilman Rodenhäuser , "Partnering in Detention and Detainee Transfer Operations," Research Handbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Women in International Law Interest Group: Prominent Woman in International Law: The Honorable Fatou Bensouda 2021 Recipients Disaster Law Interest Group: Third International and Comparative Disaster Law Essay Contest: Rhys Carvosso , "Techniques for Regulating Disasters across the Breadth of International Law: Disapplication, Exculpation, and their Shortcomings." International Legal Research Interest Group: 2021 Jus Gentium Award: The United Nations Digital Library [link to https://research.un.org/en/digitallibrary ] International Refugee Law Interest Group: 7th Annual International Refugee Law Student Writing Competition: Yogi Bratajaya , "404 Services Not Found: The Human Rights of Refugees in the Digital Welfare State" Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict: Richard R. Baxter Military Prize: Lt Commander Dennis E. Harbin , U.S. Navy, "Targeting Submarine Cables" Francis Lieber Book Prize: Giovanni Mantilla , Lawmaking Under Pressure: International Humanitarian Law and Internal Armed Conflict (Cornell University Press, 2020) Francis Lieber Article Prize: Kathryn Hampton , "Born in the Twilight Zone: Birth Registration in Insurgent Areas," Int'l Review of the Red Cross Francis Lieber Article Prize (Honorable Mention): Ross Brown , "Conflict on the Final Frontier: Deficiencies in the Law of Space Conflict Below Armed Attack, and How to Remedy Them," Georgetown Journal of International Law Women in International Law Interest Group: Prominent Woman in International Law: The Honorable Gabrielle Kirk McDonald WILIG Scholarship Prize: Irini Papanicolopulu , Gender and the Law of the Sea (Brill, 2019) 2020 Recipients International Legal Research Interest Group: 2020 Jus Gentium Award: NYU School of Law's GlobaLex project , Lucie Olejnikova (editor) [link to https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/ ] International Refugee Law Interest Group: 6th Annual International Refugee Law Student Writing Competition: Delphine Rodrik , "Rights Not Recognized: Applying ICCPR Article 16 to Migrants Pushed Back from International Borders" Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict: Richard R. Baxter Military Prize: Captain Cort S. Thompson , U.S. Army, "Avoiding Pyrrhic Victories in Orbit: A Need for Kinetic Anti-Satellite Arms Control in the 21st Century" Richard R. Baxter Military Prize (Honorable Mention): Commander Wilson VornDick , U.S. Navy Reserve, and Major Jahara Matisek , U.S. Air Force, "Bitcoin's Blockchain Technology for Hybrid Warfare: Laws to the Rescue?," the Journal of Information Warfare Francis Lieber Book Prize: Aniel Caro de Beer , Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens) and the Prohibition of Terrorism (Brill Nijhoff, 2019) Francis Lieber Article Prize: Ryan Liss , "Crimes Against the Sovereign Order: Rethinking International Criminal Justice," American Journal of International Law Women in International Law Interest Group: Prominent Woman in International Law: The Honorable Elizabeth Odio Benito , Inter-American Court of Human Rights 2019 Recipients International Refugee Law Interest Group Student Writing Competition : Emilia Truluck, "Colonizing Queerness: Determining LGBT credibility in the UK asylum system" Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict Francis Lieber Prize (Book): Rouba Al-Salem, Security, Rights and Law: The Israeli High Court of Justice and Israeli Settlements in the Occupied West Bank (Routledge Press) Francis Lieber Prize (Article): Polina Levina Mahnad, "Protecting Cultural Property in Syria: New Opportunities for States to Enhance Compliance with International Law" (Int'l Rev. Red Cross 2018) Richard R. Baxter Military Prize : Capt. John Thomas Bennett, "Reaping the Whirlwind: The norm of reciprocity and the law of aerial bombardment during World War II" Honorable Mention, Richard R. Baxter Military Prize : Maj. Trent Powell, Lt. Col. Shane Reeves, and Col. David Wallace, "Revisiting Belligerent Reprisals in the Age of Cyber" Women in International Law Interest Group Prominent Woman in International Law 2019 : Tracy Robinson, Senior Lecturer, Deputy Dean at the University of the West Indies Interest Groups Africa The Africa Interest Group (AIG) is committed to examining and organizing events that foster dialogue on contemporary legal and socio-political issues that directly impact the character and well being of African states and African people on the Continent and in the Diaspora. ... Anti-Corruption Law The rise of corruption-related civil protest, law enforcement, and corporate compliance around the world has spawned a robust debate on the aims and impact of anti-corruption law. This Interest Group will create a forum, situated between the ivory tower and the compliance seminar, in which scholars, practitioners, and advocates can mutually engage. Topics may include bribery, money laundering... Asia-Pacific Just as the Mediterranean was to the Roman world, and the Atlantic to the "modern" world, so shall the Pacific be to the "post-modern" world. This Interest Group brings together lawyers, scholars and others interested in the topic to inform each other of developments relating to international law and international relations in this vast and important region. Topics include such diverse areas... ASIL-Midwest ASIL-Midwest, a pilot project launched in February 2010, is designed to enhance the Society's regional presence. ASIL-Midwest will bring together Midwestern attorneys, academicians, judges, students, and others interested in international law and its subfields. Planned activities range from sponsorship of conferences to hosting of panel discussions and resource sessions. The aim of the group... ASIL-Southeast ASIL-Southeast, a pilot project launched at the 2012 Midyear Meeting in Georgia, is designed to provide a regional hub for ASIL members throughout the southeastern United States. ASIL-Southeast will bring together in the southeastern United States attorneys, academicians, judges, students, and others interested in international law and its subfields. Potential future activities range from... Cultural Heritage and the Arts The international law of