Student Deak Award

The International Law Students Association, in conjunction with ASIL, recognizes excellence in student legal writing by awarding the ILSA Deak Award each calendar year. The Deak Award is a prize provided by Oxford University Press for the best international-law student article in a student-edited law journal. The award honors Francis Deak, a WWII veteran who wrote extensively on international law. The award is the student equivalent of the prize for the best article in the American Journal of International Law.

Students, professors, practitioners or other persons in the legal community may nominate students for the Deak Award. A student may even nominate his own article. Per award rules, the nominee must have been a student at the time the article was written, and the article must have been published in a student-edited journal during the award year (2012 will be the next award year). All nominations satisfying these criterion will be considered by the awards committee, who will read each article and choose the winning submission. The winner of the award will be announced at the annual ASIL Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., held in March.

All nominations (include students name, school, graduation year, article, and article citation) must be sent to Vivian Shen at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Any questions about the award may also be directed to this email address.