Sata Prize
Details of the 2009 Sata Prize Competition can be found here.
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THE SATA PRIZE
Every year, the Asian Yearbook of International Law invites the submission of original essays of excellent quality written by young scholars of Asian nationality residing anywhere in the world on a topic of public or private international law for consideration of the award of the Sata International Law Prize. The value of the Prize is US$2,000 and is named after Mr. Sata Yasuhiko of Tokibo Ltd., Japan, whose generous gift has made it possible to establish this annual Prize.
The winning essay is published in the Asian Yearbook of International Law. Participants must not be over the age of 40 years on the submission date. Each essay should be accompanied by a curriculum vitae of the author. Essays must be written in English, and the length should be between 8,000 and 14,000 words excluding footnotes.
The Editors of the Yearbook will determine the winning essay and notify the competitors of the results. The decision taken by the Editors is final. Essays for the 2009 Prize must be received by the Editors of the Yearbook not later than 1 August 2009 either by post or by e-mail. The result will be notified not later than 31 December 2009. Relevant information in this respect can be sought by e-mail or by post at the following address:
Professor Dr. Thio Li-ann
Faculty of Law
National University of Singapore
Eu Tong Sen Building
469G Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259776
Tel: (65) 68743617
Fax: (65) 6779097
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2008 - No award
As no article submitted was deemed by the Editors to be of sufficient merit, it was decided that the Sata Prize would not be awarded for 2008.
2007 SATA PRIZE
The 2007 Sata Prize was awarded to Dr Zhu Lijiang (Lecturer, Faculty of International Law, China University of Political Science & Law, PRC) for his essay ‘Some Asian States’ Opposition to the Concept of War Crimes in Non-International Armed Conflicts and Its Legal Implications’.
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2005 SATA PRIZE
In 2005, the Sata Prize was awarded jointly to Naazima Kamardeen (Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) for the article ’The Erosion of Community Rights to Intellectual Property: An Asian Perspective’; and to Jaemin Lee (Associate Professor, College of Law, Hanyang University, Korea) for the article ’The United Nations Security Council and the International Court of Justice: Cooperation, Co-Existence, and Co-Involvement’. Both articles were published in Volume 12 (2005-2006) of the Yearbook.
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2004 SATA PRIZE
The Sata Prize for the year 2004 was awarded to Mr. Abraham Mohit, an LLB final year student at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India. The title of his essay was “The Customary Law of International Abductions: Limits and Boundaries”. His essay was published in vol. 11 (2004) of the Yearbook.
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2003 SATA Prize
The General Editors of the Asian Yearbook of International Law (Professor Ko, Ambassador Pinto, Professor Subedi, Professor Chimni and Professor Miyoshi) decided to award the Sata Prize for the year 2003 to Ms. Takhmina Karimova of Tajikistan, an LL.M. student at Essex University in the U.K., for her essay on “Universal Permissive Jurisdiction for the Violation of Common Article 3 to the Geneva Conventions for the Protection of the Victims of War of 12 August 1949″. The winning essay was published in vol. 10 of the Yearbook.
There were altogether 14 essays submitted and 12 of them were deemed eligible for competition for the Prize. The two disqualified essays were from scholars of non-Asian nationality. The 12 competing essays were submitted by young Asian scholars from a wide range of Asian countries, including Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Singapore and Tajikistan.
