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Currently the Chinese JIL and the National Key Research Center co-sponsor the following awards and lectures:

 

Wang Tieya Award and Wang Tieya Lecture in Public International Law

 

Han Depei Award and Han Depei Lecture in Private and Economic International Law

 

The Chinese Journal of International Law and the National Key Research Center, Wuhan University Institute of International Law have established the Wang Tieya Award and Wang Tieya Lecture in Public International Law and the Han Depei Award and Han Depei Lecture in Private and Economic International Law. Normally each year an internationally recognized distinguished scholar, without regard to nationality, will be elected as the recipient of the Wang Tieya Award and one as the recipient of the Han Depei Award. Each recipient will be invited to visit the Wuhan University Institute of International Law to receive the Award and to deliver a substantive lecture in his or her field, to be published in the Chinese Journal of International Law. *  The late Wang Tieya was formerly a judge at the United Nations Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, a distinguished professor of international law at Wuhan University and subsequently Peking University, a President of the Chinese Society of International Law, and a founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of International Law. A member of the Institut de droit international and the World Academy of Art and Science, Wang served as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and as member in the Chinese delegation to a variety of diplomatic conferences. * Professor Han Depei has been a distinguished professor of private international law at Wuhan University. He is the founder of the Wuhan University Institute of International Law, Wuhan University Institute of Environmental Law and China Society of Private International Law. He is an honorary President of the Chinese Society of International Law and the China Society of Private International Law.

 

Financial support for this project has been pledged by the National Key Research Center, Wuhan University Institute of International Law, the New York-based law firm, SHENLAW, LLC led by Dr. SHEN Jianming (申建明) (http://shenlaw.com) and an anonymous donor. Applications and/or nominations are invited before 1 May of each year for the Awards to be given in the following year. An application or nomination should contain a statement of five significant contributions by the candidate to his or her field and a curriculum vitae, to be sent to the Editor-in-Chief by email only at: <sienhoATchinesejil.org>. An Awards Committee will be convened with complete discretion to select the recipients as soon as possible.  The previous Fellowship program was discontinued as of October 2008.

 

 

The Recipients of the Wang Tieya Award and their Wang Tieya Lectures

 

Ian Brownlie, QC, 2009, The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes, 8 Chinese JIL (2009), 267-283.

Judge SHI Jiuyong, 2010, Maritime Delimitation in the Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, 9 Chinese JIL (2010), 271-291.

Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen, 2011, The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: The Third Wang Tieya Lecture, 11 Chinese JIL (2012), 13-44.