CCIL Awards for Excellence in Scholarship
To recognize the work of Canadian scholars of international law, each year, the CCIL conducts a competition for Excellence in Scholarship, alternating between scholarly books and scholarly papers that make a substantial contribution to the international law literature.
CCIL Scholarly Book Award
The Scholarly Book Award is conducted every two years for scholarly books that make a substantial contribution to the international law literature.
2024 Scholarly Book Award Recipient
Winner 2024
The CCIL is pleased to announce that Professor Neil Craik (Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo) has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Scholarly Book Award for his book "Liability for Environmental Harm to the Global Commons" (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The book is co-authored by Dr. Tara Davenport (National University of Singapore) and Ruth Mackenzie (Reader in International Law, University of Westminster).
Neil Craik is a Professor at the University of Waterloo with appointments to the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, where he teaches and researches in the fields of international and Canadian environmental law. His research interests are in climate and geoengineering law and governance, deep seabed mining regulation and environmental impact assessment.
Runner-Up
The award committee would also like to acknowledge Professor Wolfgang Alschner's book “Investment Arbitration and State-Driven Reform” (Oxford University Press, 2022) which has been selected as the runner-up.
Wolfgang Alschner is an Associate Professor at the Common Law Section with cross-appointment to the Faculty of Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa. He holds the Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law. He is also a faculty member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa and heads the uOttawa Legal Technology Lab.
CALL FOR SCHOLARLY BOOK SUBMISSIONS 2024 - CLOSED
NEXT AWARD: 2026
The next Scholarly Book Award submission process will open in 2026 for books published in 2024 or 2025.
Any member of CCIL may submit a book published during the two calendar years prior to the year of the award. Thus, books eligible for the 2024 award will be published in 2022 or 2023.
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The same book may not be submitted more than once. Co-authored books may be submitted if the primary author is eligible to submit a book. The committee will only accept one book per author. Edited or coedited books will not be accepted. Dissertations published as a book are accepted.
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If the selection committee determines that none of the submitted books in a competition makes a substantial contribution to the international law literature, it may decline to select any book for the Award. The selection committee may use its own discretion in making these determinations and the decisions of the selection committee are final.
All submissions must be made by May 30, 2024.
Mail five (5) copies of the book to:
CCIL Scholarly Book Award 2024
c/o Intertask Conferences
275 Bay Street, Ottawa, ON K1R 5Z5 Canada
(Deliver to downstairs reception)
If you are shipping from outside Canada, please ensure that you
authorize to be billed for any import duty as the CCIL will not assume costs.
* Ensure your CCIL membership is up to date at the time of your submission.
For any questions, please contact at: ccil-ccdi@intertaskconferences.com with the subject line: CCIL Scholarly Book Award Submission.