Winners selected in international law writing competition
The International Law Committee is proud to announce the winners of the 2017 Davis Wright Tremaine International Law Writing Awards.
The International Law Committee is proud to announce the winners of the 2017 Davis Wright Tremaine International Law Writing Awards. Established through the generosity of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, the award program provides a $2,000 stipend for the best student research paper written in the past year on any topic in private or public international law, and a $500 stipend for the second best paper.
This year’s winners are:
First Place: Dwight Mears, India’s Retreat from Investor-Friendly International Investment Agreements: Having Its Cake and Eating It Too
Second Place: Ramon Henderson, Denial of Benefits Provisions: An Antiquated Approach to International Investment.
For the first time in this competition, both of the winning papers were written in the same class: Professor George Foster’s International Investment Law. Both papers explore issues involving international investment agreements (IIAs)—treaties pursuant to which countries confer benefits and protections on foreign investors in an effort to entice those investors to put their capital and expertise to work within the host state’s territory.
Professor Foster praised both authors.
“These papers rose to the top of an unusually large pool of submissions,” he said. “They were distinguished by the sophistication and depth of the authors’ analyses, and the extent to which they engaged counter-arguments. The authors’ polished writing skills also made supervising these papers a pleasure.”
The International Law Committee would like to congratulate both winners and express its gratitude toward Davis Wright Tremaine for the firm’s ongoing support for this award program.
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