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The Stefan A. Riesenfeld Memorial Award
Each year, BJIL presents the annual Stefan A. Riesenfeld Memorial Award, to a distinguished scholar or practitioner who has made outstanding contributions to the field of international law.
Past awardees include a Nobel Peace Prize winner, judges of international courts and tribunals, UN special rapporteurs, and international legal scholars from around the globe.
Professor Emeritus David D. Caron was awarded the inaugural Riesenfeld Memorial Award in 2000.
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Stefan Albrecht Riesenfeld Award Recipients
 2026: Claudia SalomonPresident, ICC International Court of Arbitration |  2025: Laurel E. FletcherClinical Professor, Berkeley Law; Co-Faculty Director, Miller Institute |  2024: Paolo TaticchiProfessor of Strategy and Sustainability, UCL School of Management |
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 2023: Sevgil MusaievaEditor-in-chief, Ukrainska Pravda |  2022: Margrethe VestagerEU Competition Commissioner and Executive Vice President of the European Commission |  2021: Nani Jansen ReventlowFounding Director, Digital Freedom Fund |
 2020: Guy S. Goodwin-GillEmeritus Professor of International Refugee Law, Oxford |  2019: Ivan Velasquez GomezHead of the UN-backed anti-impunity commission in Guatemala |  2018: Katie RedfordCo-founder and Director, EarthRights International |
 2016: David WrightSecretary General, International Organization of Securities Commissions (2012–16) |  2015 Joan E. DonoghuePresident, International Court of Justice |  2014: Steven L. SmithInternational arbitration partner, Jones Day San Francisco; founded the journal that became the Berkeley Journal of International Law |
 2013: Dinah L. SheltonProfessor Emerita, George Washington University Law; member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |  2012: Harry N. ScheiberProfessor Emeritus, Berkeley Law |  2011: Robert C. OBrienInternational arbitration lawyer; later US National Security Advisor |
 2010: Charles N. BrowerJudge, Iran–US Claims Tribunal; international arbitrator |  2009: Philip AlstonProfessor of Law, NYU; UN Special Rapporteur |  2008: David WeissbrodtRegents Professor, University of Minnesota Law; member of a UN human rights body |
 2007: Alejandro JaraDeputy Director-General, World Trade Organization |  2006: Shirin EbadiIranian lawyer and human rights activist; 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate |  2005: Lakhdar BrahimiUN Special Adviser; former UN Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Iraq |
 2004: Richard M. BuxbaumProfessor of International Law (emeritus), Berkeley Law |  2003: Louis HenkinProfessor Emeritus, Columbia Law School |  2002: Louise ArbourFormer UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; former chief prosecutor of the UN war-crimes tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda |
 2001: Yasuaki OnumaProfessor of international law, University of Tokyo |  2000: David D. CaronBerkeley Law professor; later judge on the Iran–US Claims Tribunal |
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