Prizes and Awards

Cassese Prize

The Antonio Cassese Prize is awarded annually for the best EUI Doctoral Thesis in International Law.  
Prize in honour of the outstanding lawyer who was among the most distinguished figures in international law and international criminal justice. 
It has been conferred for the first time at the Degree Conferring Ceremony on 13 June 2014. 

Prize Winners

• 2020: Ríán Derrig (LAW Ph.D. 2019) Educating American modernists: the origins of the New Haven School
• 2019: Francesca Iurlaro (Law Ph.D. 2018) Unpuzzling customary international law (CIL): the invention of customary law of nations from Francisco de Vitoria to Emer de Vattel
• 2016: Jonathan Chevry (Law Ph.D. 2015) Convergence of international trade and investment law in practice: how should investor-state arbitral tribunals engage with trade norms?
• 2015: Elisa Novic (Law Ph.D. 2014) The Concept of Cultural Genocide An International Law Perspective

• 2014: Valentina Spiga (Law Ph.D. 2013) The Right to Justice for Victims of Human Rights Crimes

Mauro Cappelletti Prize

The Mauro Cappelletti prize has been awarded annually since 2005  to commemorate the great legal scholar and former EUI professor, Mauro Cappelletti, who passed away in 2004.

Prize Winners

• 2020: Lamin Khadar (LAW Ph.D. 2019) Expanding access to justice: an exploration of large firm pro bono practice across Europe
• 2019: Afroditi-Ioanna Marketou (LAW Ph.D. 2018) Local meanings of proportionality: judicial review in France, England and Greece
• 2018: Zane Rasnaca (LAW Ph.D. 2017) First or one among equals?: the CJEU and the construction of EU social policy
• 2017: Vera Pavlou (LAW Ph.D. 2016) Migrant domestic workers in the European Union. The role of law in constructing vulnerability
• 2016: Bosko Tripkovic (Law Ph.D. 2015) The metaethics of constitutional adjudication
• 2015: Marina Aksenova (Law Ph.D. 2014) Complicity in International Criminal Law
• 2014: Joris Larik (Law Ph.D. 2013) Worldly Ambitions: Foreign policy objectives in European constitutional law
• 2013: François-Xavier Millet (Law Ph.D.2012) L'Union européenne et l'identité constitutionnelle des Etats membres
• 2012: Michal Bobek (Law Ph.D. 2011) Comparative Reasoning in European Supreme Courts - A Study in Foreign Persuasive Authority
• 2011: Barbara Gabor (Law Ph.D. 2010), Institutional and Regulatory Competition in Europe:  Connecting Some Pieces of the Puzzle on When, How and Why it Can Work
• 2010: Joana Mendes (Law Ph.D. 2009), Rights of Participation in European Administrative Law - A Rights-Based Approach to Participation in Rulemaking
• 2009: Kathrin Scherr (Law Ph.D. 2008), The Principle of State Liability for Judicial Breaches:  The case Gerhard Köbler v. Austria under EC Law and from a comparative national law perspective
• 2009: Silvia D’Ascoli (Law Ph.D. 2008), Sentencing in Criminal International Law: The approach of the two UN ad hoc Tribunals and future perspectives for the International Criminal Court
• 2008: Annelies Verstichel (Law Ph.D. 2007), Representation and Identity - The Right of Persons Belonging to Minorities to Effective Participation in Public Affairs: Content, Justification and Limits
• 2007: Eva Storskrubb (Law Ph.D. 2006), Judicial Corporation in Civil Matters - A Policy Area Uncovered 
• 2006: Nelius Carey (Law Ph.D. 2005), Opening up Marriage to Same-sex Couples. Why "Separate but Equal" is Intrinsically Disordered 
• 2005: Florian Hoffmann (Law Ph.D. 2004), Are Human Rights Transplantable? Reflections ona Pragmatic Theory of Human Rights under Conditions of Globalization

Jacqueline Suter Prize

The Jacqueline Suter prize for an excellent thesis on a topic of EU law, is most generously sponsored on a personal basis by the friends and colleagues at the European Court of Justice of the late Dr. Jacqueline Suter, who died in 2009. Jackie worked for many years as a Head of Division at the European Court of Justice and it is the wish of those who knew her in Luxembourg that her name should be commemorated here at the EUI, to which she always remained very fondly attached. Jackie was one of the first British researchers to take her Ph.D. here in the Law Department on 25 March 1985 under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Hopt on the topic "The Regulation of Insider Dealing in Britain and France".

The prize was first awarded in 2009 and again in June 2012.

Prize winners

• 2012: Sacha Garben (Law Ph.D. 2010) Harmonisation by Stealth: The Bologna Process and European Higher Education Law

• 2009: Gracia Marin Duran (Law Ph.D. 2008), Development-Based Differentiation in the European Community's External Trade Policy: Selected Issues under Community and International Trade Law

External Prizes and Awards

• Edoardo Ruffini Prize (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei) - Maria Grazia Porcedda (Law LL.M. 2011)
• Second prize for a best thesis on EU law (ELFA Thesis Award 2014) - Vesco Paskalev (Law Ph.D. 2010)