Gruber Prize for Justice
The Gruber Prize for Justice is one of five international prizes awarded by The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation[1] an American non-profit organization based in Saint Tomas, U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City.[2] The Gruber Justice Prize was established in 2001,[3] and the annual prize is worth $500,000 (US).[4]
Recipients are selected by a distinguished panel of international legal experts from nominations that are received from around the world.[5]
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.[6]
Recipients
- 2011 Barbara Arnwine, Morris Dees, Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Center for Legal and Social Studies, Kurdish Human Rights Project [1]
- 2010 Michael Kirby (judge), John Dugard and the Indian Law Resource Center[2]
- 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 Buergenthal and Jerome J. Shestack
- 2007 Justice Carmen Argibay of Argentina, Judge Carlos Cerda of Chile and international lawyer Mónica Feria Tinta of Peru
- 2006 Aharon Barak former President of the Supreme Court of Israel
- 2005 Dato Param Cumaraswamy
- 2004 Arthur Chaskalson and Pius Langa, both former chief justices of South Africa
- 2003 Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella and Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, both of Canada
- 2002 Fali Sam Nariman
- 2001 Chief Justice Anthony Roy Gubbay and Sternford Moyo
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