Professor Antony Anghie receives International Accolade

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Professor Antony Anghie recently received the 2023 Manley O. Hudson Medal from the American Society of International Law (ASIL). This award is given to a distinguished person for outstanding contributions to scholarship and achievement in international law. This award is ASIL’s highest honor.

Professor Anghie’s scholarship, teaching and insights have had a profound and transformative effect on the field of international law and international legal scholarship.“I have taught at many law schools in the United States and around the world, some of them very famous,” Anghie said. “What I have learned from this experience is that it is only at the University of Utah that I could have done my  cholarship. I am immensely grateful to the law school and the special traditions of support and collegiality we have created here, and I feel very fortunate to be a part of this community.”

Professor Anghie was recognized for the award in large part due to his book, Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (2005). This influential book paved the way for scholars to unearth and address the enduring legacies of colonialism and imperialism within the international order. He has written about the Eurocentric origins of international law, and the subjugation and marginalization of the interests and voices of the Global South and the peripheries within the international order.

In addition to his intellectual and scholarly contributions, Professor Anghie has played an important part in mentoring more junior academics and in developing and supporting a network of scholars in the field of international law.

Past recipients of this prestigious award include Judge Stephen Breyer of the US Supreme Court, Judges Sir Robert Jennings, Stephen Schwebel,  Dame Rosalyn Higgins and James Crawford of the International Court of Justice, and academics Professors Philip C. Jessup,  W.Michael Reisman and Louis Henkin.

The mission of ASIL is to foster the study of international law and promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations based on law and justice. Professor Anghie’s research efforts and contributions reflect those ideals.

More about Professor Tony Anghie

Professor Anghie is a recognized expert in international law. He received a B.A. and an LL.B. from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He earned an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he also served as a MacArthur Scholar at the Harvard Center for International Affairs and a Senior Fellow in the Graduate Program at the law school. In the summer of 1994, he completed an internship with the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. He also practiced law in Melbourne, Australia.

Professor Anghie joined the faculty at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law faculty in 1995. He served on the University President’s Task Force on Internationalization and on various other committees examining issues of internationalization at the university level. He has served as Visiting Professor at the American University Cairo, Cornell, Harvard, the London School of Economics, and the University of Tokyo and he has also taught and lectured at various other universities around the world including Melbourne Law School, the University of Auckland, the Law College in Sri Lanka and Jahangirnagar Law School in Bangladesh. He has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law. He is currently the Secretary-General of the Asian Society of International Law.

Learn more about Professor Tony Anghie and the Manley O. Hudson Medal here. 

To: Executive Council, American Society of International Law From: Gráinne de Búrca, Chair, 2022-3, ASIL Honors Committee (on behalf of Committee Members Tendayi Achiume, Karima Bennoune, Hannah Buxbaum and Tom Ginsburg)

Date: October 17, 2022

Subject: ASIL Honors Committee Report and Recommendations This memorandum constitutes the report of the 2023-23 ASIL Honors Committee and contains the Committee’s recommendations to the Executive Council for the award of the three main ASIL honors for 2023. The honors are the following:

• The Manley O. Hudson Medal, awarded to a distinguished person of American or other nationality for outstanding contributions to scholarship and achievement in international law. The 2022 recipient was Lori Fisler Damrosch. For the 2023 Manley O. Hudson Medal, the Committee nominates Professor Antony Anghie.
• The Goler T. Butcher Medal, awarded to a distinguished person of American or other nationality for outstanding contributions to the development of effective realization of international human rights. The 2022 recipient was Chile Eboe-Osuji. For the 2023 Goler T. Butcher Medal, the Committee nominates Patricia Viseur Sellers.
• The Honorary Member Award, awarded to an individual of American or other nationality who has rendered distinguished contributions or service in the field of international law. The 2022 recipient was Bhupinder S. Chimni. For the 2023 Honorary Member Award, the Committee nominates Felice Gaer. The 2022-2023 ASIL Honors Committee was appointed in spring 2022 by ASIL President Gregory Shaffer. In summer 2020 the Society posted a Call for Nominations and circulated it in a range of venues. The Committee received multiple nominations in each category and added several other nominations to the pool for each category. As a result, the Committee had a strong and accomplished set of nominees to consider for each of the three awards. Background materials relating to all of the nominations were reviewed by the Committee and were discussed in a number of zoom meetings. The Committee is grateful for the help and advice of Executive Director Mark Agrast, whose experience and wisdom guided us during the procedure; and for the support and assistance of Selma Laporte in managing the process smoothly and efficiently.

The Committee unanimously recommends the following candidates to the Executive Council for the awards below:

Manley O Hudson Medal …… Antony Anghie Professor Antony Anghie’s scholarship, teaching and insights have had a profound and transformative influence on the field of international law and international legal scholarship. He is currently Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Samuel D Thurman Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney School of Law at the University of Utah. He has been a visiting professor at the American University Cairo, Cornell Law School, the London School of Economics, Harvard Law School, the University of Tokyo, the University of Helsinki, Kent Law School and the University of Brasilia, amongst others. Professor Anghie is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of International Law, and he has served on the editorial board of the American Journal of International law. He has held various positions within the Asian Society of International law, including organizing its biennial Conference in Beijing in 2011, and he is currently Secretary-General of the Society. In 2010 he delivered the Grotius Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law. His research interests and contributions have ranged across multiple fields of public and private international law, including human rights and globalization, development and international law, terrorism and the use of force, international economic law, as well as colonialism and the history and theory of public international law, and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL).

Professor Anghie’s critical and historical scholarship in international law has been path breaking. Having been part of the original group of scholars to first create and coin the term TWAIL and to launch this approach to the study of the international legal order, Professor Anghie has for decades been one of the leading intellectual voices to articulate and develop this critique. His article with B.S. Chimni on “Third World Approaches to International Law and Individual Responsibility in Internal Conflicts” (2003) brought renewed attention to this growing school of international legal scholarship which aims to unmask the hierarchies of international law and to expose the inequalities, hypocrisies, and exploitative dimensions of international legal ordering.

Anghie’s enormously influential monograph Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (2005) paved the way for many amongst the current generation of scholars to unearth and address the enduring legacies of colonialism and imperialism within the international order. He has written powerfully on the Eurocentric origins of international law, and the subjugation and marginalization of the interests and voices of the Global South and the peripheries within the international order. In addition to his intellectual and scholarly contributions, Professor Anghie has played an important part in mentoring more junior academics and in developing and supporting a network of scholars in this field of critical international law, which aims to reveal and challenge an unequal global order, as well as the role of international law in creating and sustaining that order.

** The profile clip used (the original link) by HEMAL  was from the following websites at University of Utah and Uni of Singapore:

Professor Tony Anghie receives prestigious international law medal – S.J. Quinney College of Law (utah.edu) 

Professor Antony Anghie awarded the 2023 Manley O Hudson Medal by the American Society of International Law – Centre for International Law (nus.edu.sg)

NUS Law professor Antony Anghie honoured for stellar contributions to international law

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