Gruber Prize for Justice

The Gruber Prize for Justice is one of five, international prizes awarded by The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, an American non-profit organization based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City. The Gruber Justice Prize was established in 2001, and the annual prize is worth $500,000 (US).

Recipients are selected by a distinguished panel of international legal experts from nominations that are received from around the world.

The Gruber Foundation Justice Prize is presented to individuals or organizations for contributions that have advanced the cause of justice as delivered through the legal system. The award is intended to acknowledge individual efforts, as well as to encourage further advancements in the field and progress toward bringing about a fundamentally just world.

The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation honors and encourages educational excellence, social justice and scientific achievements that better the human condition. For more information about the Foundation and its priorities, please go to http://www.gruberprizes.org

Nominations for the Gruber Prizes in the women's rights, justice, neuroscience, genetics and cosmology categories are accepted at http://www.gruberprizes.org/Nominations/Nominations.php

Recipients

*2008 Judge Thomas Buergenthal and Jerome J. Shestack
*2007 Justice Carmen Argibay of Argentina, Judge Carlos Cerda of Chile and international lawyer Mónica Feria Tinta of Peru
*2006 Aharon Barak former President of the Supreme Court of Israel
*2005 Dato Param Cumaraswamy
*2004 Arthur Chaskalson and Pius Langa
*2003 Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella and Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, both of Canada
*2002 Fali Sam Nariman
*2001 Chief Justice Anthony Roy Gubbay and Sternford Moyo

External links

[http://www.gruberprizes.org Gruber Foundation Web site]