For the second year in a row, an NYU Law faculty member has been recognized with the Manley O. Hudson Medal, awarded annually by the American Society of International Law (ASIL) for high achievement and outstanding scholarship in international law. Joseph H.H. Weiler, University Professor and Joseph Straus Professor of Law, will be the 2025 recipient of the award, following 2024 honoree José Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law. Weiler will receive the Hudson Medal, ASIL’s highest honor, at ASIL’s 119th annual meeting in Washington, DC in April 2025.
Weiler focuses his research and teaching on issues of European integration, globalization, and democracy, as well as law and religion. He is director of NYU Law’s Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, former president of the European University Institute (EUI), and senior fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He holds a BA from the University of Sussex, an LLB and LLM from Cambridge University, and a diploma of international law from The Hague Academy of International Law. He earned his PhD in European law at EUI.
Weiler served as a member of the Committee of Jurists of the Institutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, co-drafting the European Parliament’s Declaration of Human Rights and Freedoms and the Parliament’s input to the Maastricht Intergovernmental Conference. A WTO and NAFTA panelist, he is a founding editor of the European Journal of International Law, the European Law Journal, and the World Trade Review. In 2022 he was awarded the Ratzinger Prize by Pope Francis.
Since the Hudson Medal was first awarded in 1956, seven NYU Law faculty members and visiting scholars have been among the honorees. These include—in addition to Weiler and Alvarez—the late Thomas Franck; the late Andreas Lowenfeld; Theodor Meron, Charles L. Denison Professor of Law Emeritus and Judicial Fellow; and former Distinguished Global Fellows Georges Abi-Saab and Bruno Simma.
Posted December 4, 2024