Several international law organisations award prizes to the best books of the past year. The winners of the ASIL Book Awards, ESIL Book Prize, and ILAW Book Award are now all available through the Law Library as e-books.
ASIL Book Awards
The American Society of International Law (ASIL) grants three book awards, known as ASIL Certificates of Merit. This year's winners are:
- Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship:
Anthea Roberts, Is International Law International?
- Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law:
Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée, and Lavanya Rajamani, International Climate Change Law
- 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 (see also our previous blog post)
Last year's winners are also available through the library:
- Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship:
David Sloss, The Death of Treaty Supremacy: An Invisible Constitutional Change
- Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law:
Petros Mavroidis, The Regulation of International Trade: Volume 1 (GATT) and Volume 2 (The WTO agreements on trade in goods)
- 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
ESIL Book Prize
The European Society of International Law annually awards an outstanding work in the field of international law. The 2017 ESIL Book Prize winner is James Green for his book The Persistent Objector Rule in International Law.
ILAW Book Award
The International Law Book Award is presented by the International Law Section of the International Studies Association. It recognizes a book that excels in originality, significance and rigor in the field of international law. The winners of the 2017 ILAW Book Award are:
- Thomas Weatherall for Jus Cogens: International Law and Social Contract
- Barbara Koremenos for The Continent of International Law: Explaining Agreement Design