Gruber Prize for Justice [SEP] conferred by
Gruber Prize for Justice
The Gruber Prize for Justice, established in 2001, was one of five international prizes worth US$500,000 awarded by The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, an American non-profit organization.
Recipients were selected by a distinguished panel of international legal experts from nominations received from around the world.
The Gruber Foundation Justice Prize was presented to individuals or organizations for contributions that have advanced the cause of justice as delivered through the legal system. The award was intended to acknowledge individual efforts, as well as
2007 she became the youngest lawyer to be awarded the Gruber Justice Prize, for her contributions advancing the cause of justice as delivered through the legal system; an honour she received at a ceremony chaired by US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Washington DC. Among the members of the selection panel awarding the Justice Prize that year was Justice Sandra Day O'Connor from the US Supreme Court. Past awardees of the Gruber Justice Prize include Thomas Buergenthal (former ICJ judge), Arthur Chaskalson (former President of the Constitutional Court of South