St. Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize

Short-list of the 2018 St. Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize (in order of date of acceptance):

‘The Lex Mercatoria in Theory and Practice’ by Orsolya Toth
‘Trademark and Unfair Competition Conflicts’ by Tim Dornis
‘Accessory Liability’ by Paul S Davies
‘Il Contratto di Affidamento Fiduciario’ by Maurizio Lupoi
‘The Europeanisation of English Tort Law’ by Paula Giliker
‘Money Awards in Contract Law’ by David Winterton
‘Exclusive Jurisdiction in Intellectual Property’ by Benedetta Ubertazzi
‘Proof of Causation in Tort Law’ by Alexander Steel

Laureate of the 2018 St. Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law is academic work ‘The Lex Mercatoria in Theory and Practice’ by Orsolya Toth.

Nomination for the Prize

The nomination for the St. Petersburg International Private Law Prize is open till June 15, 2018. The Prize is awarded to outstanding academic works in the field of Russian and/or foreign private law or private international law. Comparative law papers are also eligible. The nomination is open to monographs published since 1 January 2016 (Textbooks or commentaries may not be nominated)

How to apply*:

Fill in the registration form on the SPBILF website or send by e-mail to awards@spblegalforum.com the information about the Nominating Organization and the nominated academic work
Attach the following documents:
- Letter from the Nominating Organization**
- Full text
- CV of the authors (including contact information and nationality )
- Author’s acceptance to participate in the contest
- Summary of the academic work (2 pages)

Submit an Entry

* All the rules are mentioned in the Guidelines of the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize

**List of Nominating Institutions is published in Annex 2 of the Guidelines

SPBILF Private Law Prize 2018

This global academic award is tasked with recognizing the highest academic class of the winner, while its financial component is intended to help with the implementation of research ideas of international importance. The Expert Committee of the St Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize consists of the world’s most prominent jurists and academics who set the trends in today’s legal science.

Anton Asoskov

Professor, Department of Civil Law, Faculty of Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Professor, Alexeev Private Law Research Centre under the President of the Russian Federation
Jürgen Basedow

Director emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Michael Bonell

Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, Sapienza University of Rome
Jay L. Westbrook

Benno C. Schmidt Chair Of Business Law, School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin
Graham Virgo

Professor of English Private Law, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education, University of Cambridge
Roy Goode

Emeritus Professor of Law and Emeritus Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford University and Honorary President of Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
Enrico del Prato

Dean of the Law Department - Full Professor of Civil Law, Sapienza University of Rome
Rémy Cabrillac

Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Montpellier
Akira Kawamura

Of Counsel Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Past President of International Bar Association and President of the Japan Association of Arbitrators
Takeshi Kojima

Former President of Toin Yokohama University, Prof. Emeritus Chuo University
Vincent Lamanda

Former First President of the Court of Cassation of France
Ken Oliphant

Professor of Tort Law and Deputy Head of School, University of Bristol
Marta Pertegás

Professor of Private International and Transnational Law at the Maastricht University, Professor of Law at University of Antwerp
John Finnis

FBA, QC (hon), Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy (Emeritus), University of Oxford; Biolchini Family Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame du Lac
Weixing Shen

Professor and Dean of Tsinghua Law School
Timothy Endicott

Professor of Legal Philosophy, University of Oxford

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The world’s top-ranking universities were given the right to propose candidates for the St Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize. Based on publicly available ranking information, a list of leading law schools and R&D centres was drawn up and 82 deans of legal faculties on five continents received invitations to nominate academic works.

We firmly believe that the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum Prize will become an internationally recognized benchmark of academic achievement in private law, while the implementation of the prize winners’ outstanding ideas will contribute to making this world a fairer and better place.

The financial award amounts to 10 million rubles.

Guidelines of the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize

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