Gruber Prize for Justice
Encyclopedia
The Gruber Prize for Justice is one of five international prizes awarded by The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
, an American non-profit organization
based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City
. The Gruber Justice Prize was established in 2001, and the annual prize is worth $500,000 (US).
Recipients are selected by a distinguished panel of international legal experts
from nominations that are received from around the world.
The Gruber Foundation Justice Prize is presented to individuals or organizations for contributions that have advanced the cause of justice as delivered through the legal system. The award is intended to acknowledge individual efforts, as well as to encourage further advancements in the field and progress toward bringing about a fundamentally just world.
The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation honors and encourages educational excellence, social justice and scientific achievements that better the human condition.
Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation is a U. S. philanthropic foundation established by Peter and Patricia Gruber and based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City.The foundation has two major activities...
, an American non-profit organization
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. The Gruber Justice Prize was established in 2001, and the annual prize is worth $500,000 (US).
Recipients are selected by a distinguished panel of international legal experts
International law
Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states; analogous entities, such as the Holy See; and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...
from nominations that are received from around the world.
The Gruber Foundation Justice Prize is presented to individuals or organizations for contributions that have advanced the cause of justice as delivered through the legal system. The award is intended to acknowledge individual efforts, as well as to encourage further advancements in the field and progress toward bringing about a fundamentally just world.
The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation honors and encourages educational excellence, social justice and scientific achievements that better the human condition.
Recipients
- 2011 Barbara ArnwineBarbara ArnwineBarbara R Arnwine is the executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law since 1989. Born in southern California, Arnwine is a graduate of Scripps College and Duke University School of Law. After graduating from Duke Law School, she stayed in Durman and worked for Durham...
, Morris DeesMorris DeesMorris Seligman Dees, Jr. is the co-founder and chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center , and a former direct mail marketeer for book publishing. Along with his law partner, Joseph J...
, Association for Civil Rights in IsraelAssociation for Civil Rights in IsraelThe Association for Civil Rights in Israel was created as an independent non-partisan organization to protect human rights and civil rights in Israel and the territories under its control....
, Center for Legal and Social Studies, Kurdish Human Rights ProjectKurdish Human Rights ProjectThe Kurdish Human Rights Project is the only non-partisan human rights organisation consistently working in the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and elsewhere...
http://media.scrippscollege.edu/press-releases/alumnae/barbara-arnwine-receives-gruber-international-justice-prize - 2010 Michael Kirby (judge), John DugardJohn DugardJohn Dugard is a South African professor of international law. He has served as Judge ad hoc on the International Court of Justice and as a Special Rapporteur for both the former United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the International Law Commission...
and the Indian Law Resource Centerhttp://www.indianlaw.org/ - 2009 Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), an international public interest law organization that combats anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Roma in Europe
- 2008 Judge Thomas BuergenthalThomas BuergenthalThomas Buergenthal is a former judge of the International Court of Justice. He resigned his post as of 6 September 2010. Buergenthal is returning to his position as Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at The George Washington University Law School...
and Jerome J. Shestack - 2007 Justice Carmen ArgibayCarmen ArgibayCarmen María Argibay is a member of the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice. She was the first woman to be nominated for the Court by a democratic government in Argentina, and caused some controversy upon declaring herself an atheist and a supporter of legal abortion.-Career prior to the Supreme...
of Argentina, Judge Carlos Cerda of ChileChileChile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
and international lawyer Mónica Feria Tinta of Peru - 2006 Aharon BarakAharon BarakAharon Barak is a Professor of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and a lecturer in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Yale Law School, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law....
former President of the Supreme Court of IsraelSupreme Court of IsraelThe Supreme Court is at the head of the court system and highest judicial instance in Israel. The Supreme Court sits in Jerusalem.The area of its jurisdiction is all of Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories. A ruling of the Supreme Court is binding upon every court, other than the Supreme... - 2005 Dato Param Cumaraswamy
- 2004 Arthur ChaskalsonArthur ChaskalsonArthur Chaskalson, is a former President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and Chief Justice of South Africa...
and Pius LangaPius LangaPius Nkonzo Langa was previously Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He was appointed to the bench in 1994 by Nelson Mandela, became Deputy Chief Justice in 2001 and was elevated as Chief Justice in 2005 by Thabo Mbeki. He retired in October 2009.-External links:**...
, both former chief justices of South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans... - 2003 Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella and Madame Justice Bertha WilsonBertha WilsonBertha Wernham Wilson, CC was a Canadian jurist and the first woman Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.-Early life:...
, both of Canada - 2002 Fali Sam NarimanFali Sam NarimanFali Sam Nariman is a distinguished Indian Constitutional jurist, and senior advocate to the Supreme Court of India since 1971 and has remained the President of the Bar Association of India since 1991. Nariman is an internationally recognized authority on international arbitration...
- 2001 Chief Justice Anthony Roy Gubbay and Sternford Moyo