Professor Antony Anghie wins Manley O. Hudson Medal

Professor Antony Anghie is the recipient of the prestigious Manley O. Hudson Medal this year, an honour that is given to mark outstanding contributions to scholarship and achievement in international law. Bestowed by the American Society of International Law (ASIL), this award is given to a distinguished person of American or other nationality, to commemorate the life work of Manley O. Hudson.

Professor Anghie’s scholarship, teaching and insights have had a profound and transformative effect on the field of international law and international legal scholarship. For decades, he has been one of the leading intellectual voices on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), critiquing the inequalities of the international legal order. This has paved the way for many among the current generation of scholars to address the enduring legacies of colonialism and imperialism.

(Read the full ASIL Honors Committee report here)

On his win, Professor Anghie said: “This is a very unexpected honour because my arguments were viewed as radical and challenging at the time I first made them. It was a struggle to get my book published. But I was fortunate to be able to take time over my scholarship. This is less possible now in an academic world driven by rankings and metrics.”

Past recipients of the medal include legal luminaries such as Judge Stephen Breyer, former Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court; Sir Robert Jennings and Dame Rosalyn Higgins, former Presidents of the International Court of Justice; as well as influential academics Professors Philip C. Jessup and Louis Henkin – Professor Jessup is best known for his theory of transnational law and Professor Henkin is a pioneering human rights scholar.

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About Professor Antony Anghie

Tony Anghie qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and practised law in Melbourne, Australia before commencing his graduate studies at Harvard Law School, where he earned his S.J.D degree and was appointed as a Senior Fellow in the Graduate Programme. He then taught at the S.J. Quinney School of Law, University of Utah, where he served as the Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law. He has been a visiting professor at numerous schools including the American University Cairo, Cornell Law School, the London School of Economics, Harvard Law School, the University of Brasilia, the University of Tokyo, the University of Helsinki and Kent Law School. He has served in different capacities on the governing bodies of the Asian Society of International Law since its founding, and was a principal organiser of the society’s biennial conference in Beijing in 2011. He delivered the Grotius Lecture at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law in 2010.

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