In each prize category, €1000 is awarded to the individual winner or shared between the joint winners. The prizes were awarded at the 2017 Odysseus Annual Law and Policy Conference on 10 February 2017 in Brussels.
Best Publication Prize Winner
For 2016, the prize is shared between two excellent publications.
Dr Cathryn Costello: The Human Rights of Migrants and Refugees in European Law
Prof Marie-Bénédicte Dembour: When Humans Become Migrants.
Study of the European Court of Human Rights with an Inter-American Counterpoint.
Early Career Prize Winner
Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax: ‘The Legality of the “Safe Third Country” Notion Contested: Insights from the Law of Treaties’, in G.S. Goodwin-Gill and P. Weckel (eds), Migration & Refugee Protection in the 21st Century: Legal Aspects – The Hague Academy of International Law Centre for Research (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2015) 665-721.
The publication can be found here.
Special Mention goes to another early career researcher for her excellent paper:
Nika Bačić Selanec: ‘Critique of EU Refugee Crisis Management: On Law, Policy and Decentralisation’, in Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy, Vol 11 (2015).
The publication can be found here.