The Gruber Prize for Justice, established in 2001, was one of five international prizes worth US$500,000 awarded by The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation,Yale and Patricia and Peter Gruber Announce Establishment of the Gruber Foundation at Yale
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.The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
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/ref> Recipients were selected by a distinguished panel of international legal experts from nominations received from around the world.Recipient Selection Overview
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/ref> The foundation established an annual fellowship at George Washington University Law School between 2009 and 2011, which funded a student to clerk with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hauge under the ICJ’s University Traineeship Programme. The foundation awarded its final prize in 2011, after which it was merged into the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights and moved to Yale Law School.

Recipients

*2001: Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay and Sternford Moyo, both of Zimbabwe *2002: Fali Sam Nariman *2003: Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella and Madame Justice

Bertha Wilson Bertha Wernham Wilson (September 18, 1923April 28, 2007) was a Canadian jurist and the first female puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Before her ascension to Canada's highest court, she was the first female associate and partner ...

, both of Canada *2004: Former Chief Justices Arthur Chaskalson and Pius Langa, both of South Africa *2005: Dato Param Cumaraswamy *2006:

Aharon Barak Aharon Barak (; born 16 September 1936) is an Israeli lawyer and jurist who served as President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006. Prior to this, Barak served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1978 to 1995, and bef ...

, former President of the

Supreme Court of Israel The Supreme Court of Israel (, Hebrew acronym Bagatz; ) is the Supreme court, highest court in Israel. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all other courts, and in some cases original jurisdiction. The Supreme Court consists of 15 jud ...

*2007: Justice Carmen Argibay of Argentina; Judge Carlos Cerda Fernández of

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

; and international lawyer Mónica Feria Tinta of Peru *2008: Judge Thomas Buergenthal and Jerome J. Shestack *2009:

Bryan Stevenson Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, and law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Based in Montgomery, Alabam ...

of the Equal Justice Initiative;

European Roma Rights Centre The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is a Roma-led, international public interest law organisation engaging in a range of activities aimed at combating anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Romani people. The approach of the ERRC involve ...

*2010: The Honourable Michael Kirby; John Dugard; and the Indian Law Resource Center *2011: Barbara Arnwine;

Morris Dees Morris Seligman Dees Jr. (born December 16, 1936) is an American attorney known as the co-founder and former chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), based in Montgomery, Alabama. He ran a direct marketing firm before fou ...

; Association for Civil Rights in Israel;

Center for Legal and Social Studies The Center for Legal and Social Studies (in Spanish: Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales; acronym: CELS) is an Argentine non-governmental organization based in Buenos Aires. It was founded in 1979 and it is oriented towards the promotion and defe ...

; and Kurdish Human Rights Project

References

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External links

Gruber Foundation Web siteGruber Prizes nomination page
Human rights awards Justice Legal awards Awards established in 2001 Awards disestablished in 2011