Call for Nominations: Ciardi Prize 2012

The Prof. Gisuseppe Ciardi Foundation will has issued a call for nominations for its 2012 prize for a substantial and original study dealing with military law, law of war or any matter connected with or related to the aforementioned. Here's the call:

The Italian PROF. GIUSEPPE CIARDI FOUNDATION will award its scientific prize in 2012 in the overall amount of 1.500 Euro. The prize is intended to reward any substantial and original study dealing with military law, law of war or any matter connected with or related to the aforementioned.

Works submitted must have been published after the 1st January 2009 and must be written either in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. The Jury will be presided over by Doctor Giovanna Ciardi. Other four members are going to be designated on equal number both by the International Society for the Military Law and the Law of War and the Italian Group of the same Society.

Works submitted need to be sent in three copies, by postal mail, before 1st January 2012 as follows:

a) two copies to FONDAZIONE PROF. GIUSEPPE CIARDI, Presidente Dott.ssa Giovanna Ciardi, c/o Gruppo Italiano della Società di Diritto Militare e della Guerra, Viale delle Milizie 5/c 00192 ROMA ITALIA;

b) one copy to INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR MILITARY LAW AND THE LAW OF WAR SOCIETE INTERNATIONALE DE DROIT MILITAIRE ET DE DROIT DE LA GUERRE, Avenue de la Renaissance 30 – 1000 BRUSSELS/BRUXELLES, BELGIUM/BELGIQUE – General Secretariat/Secrétariat général.

All submissions must indicate the author of the work (full name; postal and e-mail addresses; phone and fax numbers).

The International Society for the Military Law and the Law of War, in order to widen the choice of scientific works for the award, may submit a list of works, eventually based on both the book reviews of the Revue de Droit Militaire et de la Guerre and the articles published by the same Revue, after having sought the consent of the author. The above lists must be submitted by mail with one copy of each work before 1st February 2012, with all the necessary information on the author, to FONDAZIONE PROF. GIUSEPPE CIARDI, Presidente Dott.ssa Giovanna Ciardi, c/o Gruppo Italiano della Società di Diritto Militare e della Guerra, Viale delle Milizie 5/c 00192 ROMA ITALIA.

Appropriate consideration will be taken in order to comply with both the principle of impartiality and the separation of duties between designated members of the Jury and the members reviewing and/or acting as proponents of works for the award. The Jury has the faculty to award a second price of the amount of 500 Euro. In this case the winner of the first price will be awarded with 1.000 Euro. Other not awarded works may obtain a special and reasoned mention for exceptional scientific worth.

The proclamation of the winners will be issued at the XIX Congress of the International Society for Military Law and the Law Of War.

A PDF version of this call for nominations may be downloaded here.