The Prof. Dr I.H.Ph. Diederiks-Verschoor Award is granted annually by the IISL Board of Directors.
The Award is given to the best paper accepted for presentation at the Institute’s Colloquium by an author not older than 30 years and who has not published more than five papers in the Proceedings of IISL Colloquia.
A medal is donated each year by the initiator of the Award, Prof. Oscar Fernandez Brital from Argentina.
Previous Diederiks-Verschoor Award winners
| 2018 | Andrea Capurso (Italy) for his paper titled The Non-Appropriation Principle: A Roman Interpretation |
| 2017 | Claudiu Mihai Taiatu (Romania) for his paper titled Space Traffic Management: Top priorty for safety operations |
| 2016 | Pierfrancesco Breccia (Italy) for his paper titled Article III of the Outer Space Treaty and its relavance in the international space legal framework |
| 2015 | Dimitri Linden (Belgium) for his paper titled The Impact of National Space Legislation in Private Space Undertakings: A Regulatory Competition Between States? |
| 2014 | Joyeeta Chatterjee (India) for her paper titled Legal Issues Relating To Unauthorised Space Debris Remediation |
| 2013 | Elena Carpanelli and Brendan Cohen for their paper titled The Notion of Damage Caused by a Space Object under the 1972 Liability Convention |
| 2012 | Olavo de Oliveira Bittencourt Neto (Brazil) for his paper The Elusive Frontier: Revisiting the Delimitation of Outer Space |
| 2011 | Irina Kerner (Germany) for her paper Supranational Space: Why the Powers of the EU are Not Quite Parallel |
| 2010 | Philip de Man (Belgium) for his paper The commercial exploitation of outer space and celestial bodies – a functional solution to the natural resource challenge |
| 2009 | Catherine Doldirina (Russia) for her paper A rightly balanced intellectual property rights regime as a mechanism to enhance commercial earth observation activities |
| 2007 | Fabio Tronchetti for his paper The non-appropriation principle under attack using article II of the Outer Space Treaty in its defence |
| 2006 | Yun Zhao for his paper Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Outer Space |
| 2005 | Zeldine O’Brien for her paper Consumer protection and the limitation of liability in the national regulation of the space industry |
| 2004 | Atsuyo Ito for her paper Legal Aspects of the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters |
| 2003 | Gérardine Meishan Goh for her paper Tintallë – Kindling International Security with Space Law |
| 2002 | Ricky Lee for his paper The ius ad bellum in outer space: the interrelation between Article 103 of the Charter of the United Nations and Article IV of the Outer Space Treaty |
| 2001 | Alvaro Fabricio dos Santos (Brazil) for his paper Brazil and the Registration Convention. |
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