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The Grotius Lectures is a series of annual lectures sponsored by the American Society of International Law

American Society of International Law

The American Society of International Law is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational membership organization, based in Washington, D.C.. It was founded in 1906, and was chartered by the United States Congress in 1950...

since 1999. The lecture is named in honour of the famous Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

jurist

Jurist

A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

, Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius , also known as Huig de Groot, Hugo Grocio or Hugo de Groot, was a jurist in the Dutch Republic. With Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili he laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law...

(1583–1645), considered by many to be the 'father of international law.' Over the past decade, the lecture has been delivered by a leading international law

International law

Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states; analogous entities, such as the Holy See; and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...

scholar or international lawyer. The lecture is customarily read at the opening of the annual meeting of the ASIL, usually held in late March or April each year.

**Grotius Lecture**
	Date	Speaker	Title	ASIL Annual Meeting
01	1999	Christopher Weeramantry Christopher Weeramantry Sri Lankabhimanya Christopher Gregory Weeramantry was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka from 1967 to 1972. He was a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1991 to 2000, and was Vice-President of the ICJ from 1997 to 2000... & Nathaniel Berman	Tribute to Grotius	93rd
02	2000	Kader Asmal Kader Asmal Kader Asmal was a South African politician. He was a professor of human rights at the University of the Western Cape, chairman of the council of the University of the North and vice-president of the African Association of International Law. He was married to Louise Parkinson and has two sons...	International Law and Practice, Dealing with the Past in the SA Experience	94th
03	2001	Jean Bethke Elshtain Jean Bethke Elshtain -Biography:She is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and is a contributing editor for The New Republic. She is, in addition, newly the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom at...	Just War and Humanitarian Intervention	95th
04	2002	Moisés Naím Moisés Naím -External links:****...	Five Wars of Globalization	96th
05	2003	Mary Robinson Mary Robinson Mary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. She first rose to prominence as an academic, barrister, campaigner and member of the Irish Senate...	Globalization (The Role of Human Rights)	97th
06	2004	Amy Chua Amy Chua Amy L. Chua is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton...	World on Fire	98th
07	2005	Michael Kirby	International Law - the Impact on National Constitutions	99th
08	2006	B.S. Chimni	A Just World Under Law: a View from the South	100th
09	2007	Joseph Stiglitz	Multinational Corporations: Balancing Rights and Responsibilities	101st
10	2008	Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein	For the Love of Country and International Criminal Law	102nd
11	2009	Achim Steiner Achim Steiner Achim Steiner is a German expert in environmental politics. From 2001 to 2006 he was Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources...	International Environmental Law & Transition Towards a Green Economy	103rd
12	2010	Antony Anghie	Should International Law Lead or Follow in Changing Times?	104th
13	2011	Amartya Sen Amartya Sen Amartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...	Harmony and Dissonance in International Law	105th

The American Grotius Lecture should not be confused with the annual Grotius Lecture held at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (the successor to the Grotius Society

Grotius Society

The Grotius Society was a British society founded in 1915 during World War I. In 1958, it was dissolved on the merger with the Society of Comparative Legislation, founded in 1895, to form the British Institute of International and Comparative Law....

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