On Friday 14 November 2025, the Lauterpacht Centre hosted an award ceremony honouring Prof Eliav Lieblich, recipient of the 2025 Max Planck-Cambridge Prize for International Law.
Professor Sandesh Sivakumaran, Director of the Centre, opened the event with a warm welcome, followed by a Laudatio delivered by Professor Anne Peters, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL). The ceremony concluded with the presentation of the award and an open conversation with Professor Lieblich. A celebratory dinner was held in the evening at Jesus College.
The Max Planck-Cambridge Prize for International Law is awarded to an exceptional mid-career legal scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to the study of international law and who engages in substantial, innovative and cutting-edge research.
The prize is a joint initiative between the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. It is awarded every two years by a panel of younger scholars chaired by the directors of each Centre.
Eliav Lieblich is a professor at the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University where he teaches and researches public international law, with a focus on the laws on the use of force, just war theory, international humanitarian law, and the history and theory of international law.
He is currently the inaugural Hans Kelsen Visiting Professor for the History and Theory of International Law at the University of Cologne and has held visiting professorships at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Columbia Law School, and University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He has also taught at the European University Institute's Academy of European Law.
Further information:
https://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/max-planck-cambridge-prize-international-law
https://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/news/2025/01/max-planck-cambridge-prize-international-law-maxcampil-2025
