We are happy to announce the eighth annual International law in the
21st Century Award for the best research paper on public international law!
The winner receives the International Law in the 21st Century Award, a diploma, and a prize of 300,000 ₽.
A group of Russian experts in public international law, including Vladlen Vereschetin, Roman Kolodkin, Sergey Punzhin, Leonid Skotnikov,
Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, and Aleksandr Khodakov came up with the
idea of establishing the Award.
The Competition is held annually. It seeks to promote and foster in-depth research in public international law and support original research within
the field.
Research papers can be submitted either in Russian or English
and should address any Public international law issue.
The research papers accepted for participation in the competition shall be:
prepared by one author;
not published previously, or published no earlier than
January 1, 2021;
of 1 ∙ 2 author’s sheets (40,000 ∙ 80,000 characters);
not submitted to the Competition previously (it is not recommended to submit papers substantially repeating those that were previously submitted to the competition);
Only citizens of the Russian Federation under 35 years old, who completed higher legal education in law and / or hold a postgraduate degree in law, are eligible to take part in the competition.
The winner is selected by the Council of the Award, consisting of international law practitioners and scholars.
Assessing submitted papers, the Council of the Award takes into account an in-depth of research in a selected subject, novelty and practical value of findings, the quality of analysis of the applicable law, the usage of up-to-date doctrine, the logic and clarity of writing, and the extent to which thesis statements formulated by an author are well-founded and reasoned.
Please, note that plagiarism is unacceptable. The Organizer checks the research papers for plagiarism, including by using special automated systems. The Council of the Award will be informed about cases of plagiarism and incorrect citation.
The Library of the ICLRC is open and ready to assist contestants by providing access to literature needed for preparation and submission of their papers (email: prize@iclrc.ru)
Prize winners
Vladimir Trofimchuk
2020
International policy advisor to Deputy minister of transport. Holds a Master of laws from the University of Cambridge (2014) and Bachelor of arts with honours from MGIMO University (2013). Was an exchange student at Sciences Po Paris in France.
Holds an Bachelor of laws (2017) and a Master of laws with honours from MGIMO University (2019). She won national and international essay competitions. She has a number of publications on International investment law
Employee of the Ministry of foreign affairs of the Russia, graduated from the Interna-tional law school of MGIMO University (2017), has a number of publications on International criminal law, International humanitarian law, the Law of international organizations
Associate at Clifford chance. Holds a Bachelor of laws from Lomonosov MSU (2015) and a Magister juris from Oxford University (2016). Не was a Hill scholar and awarded the Volterra Fietta prize for Interna-tional dispute settlement and the Gillis Wetter memorial prize for international arbitration
Doctoral student at the University of Göttingen and a graduate of the Immanuil Kant Baltic federal university in Kaliningrad and University of Göttingen in Germany
Doctor of Law. Professor. Head of the Department of international and European law of Kazan Federal University
Gabriela Belova-Ganeva
Phd. (Law)
Bulgaria
Phd (Law). Head of the Department of Inter-national law and International relations of the South-West University „Neofit Rilsky” — Blagoevgrad. Professor. Member of the Bulgarian Association of International law and the Bulgarian association of European.
Roman Kolodkin
Phd. (Law)
Russia
Phd. (Law). Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (2017…present). Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Netherlands. Permanent Represen-tative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (2009...2015). Director of the Legal Depart-ment, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
(2001...2009, 2015...2017). Member of Institut de Droit International (2009... present). Member of International Law Commission (2003…2011, 2015...2018) Director of Public International Law Studies (2017...2020). Advisor on Public Interna-tional Law (2020…present) at the ICLRC.
Sergey Marochkin
Professor. Doctor of Law
Russia
Professor. Doctor of Law. Honored Jurist of the Russian Federation, winner (laureate) of the F.F. Martens prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of the European Society of International Law. Member of the Executive Committee of the Russian Association of International Law.
Head of the Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies of University
of Tyumen.
Tatiana Neshataeva
Professor. Doctor of Law
Russia
Judge of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union. Judge. Vice-President of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Community (2012-2014). Judge of the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation (1995-2012). Doctor of Law. Professor. Honored lawyer of the Russian Federation.
Head of the Chair of International Law in the Russian State University of Justice. Vice-President of the Russian Association of International Law.
Sergey Punzhin
PhD. (Law)
Russia
PhD. (Law). Principal Legal Secretary of the Court. Head of the Department of Legal Matters of International Court of Justice. Associated Member of Institut de Droit International (2020...present)
Vera Rusinova
Professor. Dr. hab.
Russia
Professor of International Law at the National Research University at Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Received a Doctor of legal sciences (Dr. hab.) degree in Moscow and holds a Master degree from the University of Göttingen. A Co-Chair of the International Law Association’s Committee on Use of Force.
A Member of the European Society of International Law, and the Russian Association of International Law.
Leonid Skotnikov
Jurist
Russia
Member of the International Court of Justice (2006...2015). Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations and other Interna-tional Organizations in Geneva and to the Conference on Disarmament (2001...2005). Director of the Legal Department.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1991...1992, 1998...2001).
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Netherlands (1992...1998)
Natalia Sokolova
Doctor of Law
Russia
Phd. (Law). Judge. President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov
Professor
Russia
Professor of International Law. Merited Jurist of the Russian Federation. Vice-President of the Russian Association of International Law. Member of the Committee against Torture. Ad hoc Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (Ukraine v. Russia). Senior staff member of
the Secretariat of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (1992...2016). Trial Judge, the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2009...2012). Appeals Judge, the UN International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and for the former Yugoslavia (2012...2015)
Ivana Hrdličková
Phd. (Law)
Russia
Professor of International Law. Merited Jurist of the Russian Federation. Vice-President of the Russian Association of International Law. Member of the Committee against Torture. Ad hoc Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (Ukraine v. Russia). Senior staff member of
the Secretariat of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (1992...2016). Trial Judge, the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2009...2012). Appeals Judge, the UN International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and for the former Yugoslavia (2012...2015)
Vladimir Shumilov
Professor. Doctor of Law
Russia
Head of the Department of International Law at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Jurist of the Russian Federation
Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva since 1995. Titular Member of the Institut de Droit International, its Secretary-General since 2015. Marcelo Kohen has worked as legal counsel and advocate for a number of States before international courts and tribunals. He also acts as an arbitrator in ICSID and UNCITRAL cases. He has been
visiting professor at several European universities and Rapporteur or Corappor-teur for the International Law Association, the Council of Europe, and the Institut de Droit International. He was one of the founders of the Latin American Society of International Law and served as its Secretary-General until 2015. He has been in the Board of the LLM in Interna-tional Dispute Settléement of Geneva (MIDS)
since its creation. Author of many publications in the field of international law. He was awarded the Paul Guggenheim Prize in 1997 for his book “Possession contestée et souveraineté territorial” (Adverse Possession and Territorial Sovereignty).
Stefan Talmon
Stefan Talmon, DPhil LLM MA, is Professor of Public Law, Public International Law and European Union Law, and Director of the Institute of Public International Law at the University of Bonn. He is also a Super-numerary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford. He also was Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford. In the academic year 2020…2021, he was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Stefan Talmon is a generalist with wide-ranging interests in international law: he is the editor of the blog and CUP book series GPIL — German Practice in International Law. Professor Talmon practices as a Barrister from TwentyEssex, London, and frequently advises States and transnational corporations on questions of public
international law. He has appeared as counsel and expert before the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, and international arbitral tribunals (including ICSID), as well as domestic courts in England, Germany, and the United States of America. In 2019…2020, he sat as an arbitrator in a confidential PCA arbitration concerning international terrorism.
Paul B. Stephan
Expert in international law, comparative law, international business, and international dispute resolution, with an emphasis on Soviet and post-Soviet legal systems. He also received his J.D. degree. During 2006…2007, he served as Counselor on International Law in the U.S. Department of State, and in 2020…2021 as Special Counsel to the General Counsel in the U.S. Department of Defense. He also worked with the U.S. Department of Treasury, the IMF, the World Bank, and the OECD on issues of tax reform from 1993 to 1998. He was coordinating reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States (2018). He clerked for Judge LevinCampbell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. He has taught as a
visiting professor at numerous universities. He has written many books and published over a hundred articles. His current research interests include “The Crisis in International Law – System Shocks, National Populism, and the Battle for the World Economy”, due for publication by Cambridge University Press in 2022.
Zhiguo Gao
President of the Society of the Law of the Sea and former Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (2008…2020).
Dr. Gao received Doctorate in the Science of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, and finished a Post Doctorate in Law, East-West Centre, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (1994).
Over the last two years, Zhiguo Gao has been a teacher in a large number of universities and has also received honorary titles.
Dr. Gao‘s professional experiences in recent years also include: Professor and Honorary Dean, Hainan University Law School (2014…present). Professor and Honorary Director, Centre for the Law of the Sea, Tsinghua University (2009…present). Professor and Adjunct Professor of Shanghai University of Communications (2020…present), University of Nanjing (since June 2013)
China University of Political Science and Law (2012…present), Hainan University (2008…present); Xiamen University (2004…present), China Ocean University (2000…present); Senior Lecturer (1994…1997) and Honorary Lecturer (1998…present), Unive-rsity of Dundee, United Kingdom; President, China Society for the Law of the Sea (1998…present); Member of the Advisory Board, Chinese Society of International Law (since 2013), Member of Editorial Board, Ocean Development and International Law (Canada); Member of Editorial Board, Ocean Yearbook (United States of America); Chairman of the Editorial Board, Ocean & Boundary Affairs, Wuhan University, China.
Dr. Gao is widely published in books and journals. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Yearbook of the Law of the Sea.
Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant
Professor of Public International Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and Director of its Public Law Department. Caldeira Brant got his Ph.D. in International Law, doctorate thesis awarded with the “Prix du Ministère de la Recherche”, Paris, France. He is a visiting professor at various universities.
Member of the Argentina National Academy of Law. Lecturer at the XXXVII International Law Course of the Organization of American States. Lecturer at the Gilberto Amado Memorial Lecture Series, held by the International Law Commission.
Former member of the legal body of the International Court of Justice. Former member of the Advisory Committee for Nominations at the International Criminal Court. Former Brazilian candidate to the post of Judge at the International Criminal Court.
Honorary member of the Minas Gerais Academy of Legal Letters. Member of the Societé Française de Droit International. Director of the Brazilian branch of the International Law Association (ILA Brazil). Founder and Honorary President of the International Law Center (CEDIN), director of the Brazilian International Law Yearbook.
John Dugard SC
Emeritus Professor of Law of the Univer-sities of Leiden and the Witwatersrand and former Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge.
He participated in the drafting of South Africa’s democratic Constitution of 1996.
He was a member of the International Law Commis-sion (1997…2011) and Special Rapporteur on the subject of diplomatic protection, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (2001…2008), and Judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice (2000…2018). He has taught at the Hague Academy of International law and has published several books and many articles on international law. He is a member of the Institut de Droit International and an Honorary Member of the American Society of International law.
Phd. (Law). Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (2017…present). Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Netherlands. Permanent Represen-tative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (2009...2015). Director of the Legal Depart-ment, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
(2001...2009, 2015...2017). Member of Institut de Droit International (2009... present). Member of International Law Commission (2003…2011, 2015...2018) Director of Public International Law Studies (2017...2020). Advisor on Public Interna-tional Law (2020…present) at the ICLRC.
Roman Kolodkin
PhD. (Law)
Russia
PhD. (Law). Principal Legal Secretary of the Court. Head of the Department of Legal Matters of International Court of Justice. Associated Member of Institut de Droit International (2020...present).
Leonid Skotnikov
Jurist
Russia
Member of the International Court of Justice (2006...2015). Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations and other Interna-tional Organizations in Geneva and to the Conference on Disarmament (2001...2005). Director of the Legal Department.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1991...1992, 1998...2001).
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Netherlands (1992...1998).
Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov
Professor
Russia
Professor of International Law. Merited Jurist of the Russian Federation. Vice-President of the Russian Association of International Law. Member of the Committee against Torture. Ad hoc Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (Ukraine v. Russia). Senior staff member of
the Secretariat of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (1992...2016). Trial Judge, the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2009...2012). Appeals Judge, the UN International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and for the former Yugoslavia (2012...2015).
Sergey Usoskin
Master degree
Russia
Attorney (Advocate). Double Bridge Law. Sergey's practice focuses on international and cross-border cases including inter-state disputes and investment arbitration. He teaches public international law courses at the Higher School of Economics and the Saint Petersburg State University.
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