International Law in the XXI Century Award. Results of 10 years and the 10th competition More video
We are happy to announce the eleventh competition for the International law in the XXI Century Award for the best research paper on public international law!
The winner receives the International Law in the XXI Century Award, a diploma, and a prize of 500,000 RUB.
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. Its objectives include promoting and fostering in-depth research in public international law and supporting original research within the field. Results of 10 years
The Competition is supported by Ivanyan and Partners and the International Justice journal.
We encourage the contestants to use the resources of the ICLRC Library to write their papers.
Research papers may be submitted either in Russian or in English and should address one or a few thematic areas specified in Appendix 1 to the Submission Rules.
The research papers accepted for participation in the competition shall be:
prepared independently by one author,
either not published previously or published not earlier than 1 January 2024,
limited to 1-2 author’s sheets (40,000-80,000 characters),
previously not submitted to the Competition (it is not recommended to submit research papers substantially repeating those that were previously submitted to the Competition).
Only citizens of the Russian Federation up to 35 years old inclusive (to the date of announcement) 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 famous international law experts.
When assessing submitted papers, the Council of the Award takes into account the 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 papers for plagiarism, including by using special automated systems. The Council of the Award will be informed about cases of plagiarism and incorrect citation.
Timeline
The paper and other necessary materials must be submitted by 31 March 2025. The materials are submitted by email to prize@iclrc.ru and/or by filling out the form on this webpage.
The results will be announced no later than 30 June 2025, if not specified otherwise in accordance with the Regulations of the Competition.
Prize winners
Adam Nalgiev
2023
Ph.D student at the School of International Law of the Faculty of Law of the National Research University Higher School of Economics; associate (international disputes) at Ivanyan & Partners Law Offices.
International Policy Advisor to Deputy Minister of Transport. Holds an LLM from the University of Cambridge (2014) and BA with honours from MGIMO University (2013). Was an exchange student at Sciences Po Paris, France.
Holds an LLB (2017) and an LLM 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 Russian Federation, graduated from the International 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 (international arbitration and litigation). Holds an LLB from Lomonosov Moscow State University (2015) and an MJur from the University of Oxford (2016), where he was a Hill scholar and awarded the Volterra Fietta Prize for International Dispute Settlement. In 2018, the London Court of International Arbitration awarded him the Gillis Wetter Memorial Prize for International Arbitration.
A graduate of the IKBFU (Kaliningrad) and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany). In 2023, he successfully defended a PhD thesis at the University of Göttingen. Aleksei specializes in international law and is experienced in inter-State litigation (WTO). Currently, he works at the ICLRC on issues linked to public international law and teaches related subjects at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow).
The head of constitutional litigation practice of the Institute of Law and Public Policy** and a graduate of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and Harvard Law School.
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Investor-State dispute settlement reform initiatives of European Union: Investment chapter of Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between European Union and Canada
Adel Abdullin
Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International and European Law, Kazan Federal University
Gabriela Belova-Ganeva
Head of the Department of International 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 Law, Ph.D. (Law)
Sergey Marochkin
Professor, Head of the Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies, University of Tyumen
Professor, Doctor of Law, Honored Jurist of the Russian Federation, winner (laureate) of the F.F. Martens prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies, University of Tyumen
Tatiana Neshataeva
Head of the International Law Department of the V.M. Lebedev Russian State University of Justice; Judge of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union, Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation (retired)
Tatyana Neshataeva graduated from Perm State University with a degree in law. She began her professional career the same year in the Prosecutor’s Office of the Perm Region. From 1982 to 1985, she pursued postgraduate studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University and defended her Candidate of Sciences dissertation. Between 1985 and 1990, she served as an assistant and associate professor at the Department of State Law and Soviet Governance at Perm State University. From 1990 to 1993, she was a doctoral student at the Moscow State Law Academy, where she defended her doctoral dissertation. In 1995, she was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation. Starting in 1998, she headed the Sector of International Law and Cooperation, and in 2005, became the supervisor of the International Law and Cooperation Department of the High Court of Arbitration of Russia. From 2012 to 2014, she served as a judge of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Community, and from 2013 to 2014, as its Vice-President. From 2015 to 2023, she was a judge of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union.
She is the author of 12 monographs and textbooks, and over 200 academic articles.
Holds the highest judicial qualification class and has been awarded the honorary title “Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation.”
Since 2000, she has chaired the Department of International Law at the Russian State University of Justice.
She is Vice-President of the Russian Association of International Law.
Participated in the drafting of the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements, the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, and the reform of the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights.
She has received state and departmental awards.
Sergey Punzhin
Principal Legal Secretary of the Court, Head of the Department of Legal Matters, International Court of Justice
Ph.D. (Law), Principal Legal Secretary of the Court, Head of the Department of Legal Matters, International Court of Justice, Associated Member, Institut de Droit International (2021-present)
Leonid Skotnikov
Member of the International Court of Justice (2006-2015), Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations and other International 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).
Vladimir Shumilov
Head of the Department of International Law at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy
Head of the Department of International Law at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Jurist of the Russian Federation
Roman Kolodkin
Advisor on Public International Law, the International and Comparative Law Research Center, Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea since 2017, Member of Institut de Droit International since 2009, Ph.D. in Law
Education: Degree in international law (with honors), Moscow State University (1982); postgraduate studies, Moscow State University (1982-1985).
In 1986–1990, served at the USSR Ministry of Merchant Marine.
In 1990–1991, served at the Committee on Inter-Republic Relations of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of Russia.
In 1991–1992, served as Assistant to and Head of Staff of the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In 1992–1997, served as Head of Division, Deputy Director of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In 1997–2001 — Deputy permanent representative to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva.
From 2009 to 2015, he served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Netherlands, Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
In 2001–2009, 2015–2017, he served as Director of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In 2017–2020 — Director of Public International Law Studies, since 2020 — Advisor on Public International Law of the International and Comparative Law Research Center.
In 2003–2011, 2015–2018 — Member of the International Law Commission.
Natalia Pavlova
Associate professor of the Department of international law in the Russian State University of Justice, Judge of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union, candidate of legal sciences
In 2011 – 2014 – Judge of theSupreme ArbitrazhCourt of the Russian Federation.
Since 2014 – Judge of the Judicial Chamber on Economic Disputes of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.
Vera Rusinova
Head of the International Law Department, Faculty of Law, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Head of the International Law Department, Faculty of Law, National Research University 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.
Natalia Sokolova
Doctor of Law, Associate Professor
Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, Academic Director of the Research Institute, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL).
Dr. Daria Boklan
Professor, International Law Department, Higher School of Economics
Recent Publications:
A Legitimate End to ‘Until Everything is Agreed’? 57(2) Journal of World Trade 2023 [with Olga Starshinova and Amrita Bahri]
Not Just Sea Turtles, Let’s Protect Women Too: Invoking Public Morality Exception or Negotiating a New Gender Exception in Trade Agreements? 33 (1) European Journal of International Law 2022 [with Amrita Bahri]
The WTO’s Collapsing Judicial and Legislative Wings: Is ‘Consensus’ the Real Elephant in the Room? 17 (2) Global Trade and Customs Journal2022 [with Amrita Bahri]
Yuriy Bezborodov
Professor of the V. F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University, Professor at the Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin
Yuri Bezborodov is Doctor of Law, Professor of International and European Law Department at the V. F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University, Professor at the Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin.
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