The American Society of International Law has announced its 2014 Certificates of Merit for Scholarship. I had the honor of chairing this year's committee, which also included Jutta Brunnée, Jean d’Aspremont, Duncan Hollis, and Saira Mohamed. The recipients of the certificates are:
Certificate of Merit - Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship: Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks, Socializing States: Promoting Human Rights through International Law (Oxford Univ. Press 2013)
Certificate of Merit - High Technical Craftsmanship and Utility to Practicing Lawyers and Scholars: Robert Kolb, The International Court of Justice (Hart Publishing 2013)
Certificate of Merit - Specialized Area of International Law: Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters eds., The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford University Press 2012)