Every year the Chair grants an International Award for Legal Culture to a leading international jurist who is committed to research into and the dissemination of legal culture. Awards that recognise these aspects of professional careers emphasise the importance of law for coexistence and progress, and highlight the extent to which legal culture is indispensable in resolving social conflicts and alienating any form of violence in society.
Among the most important international awards, such as the Nobel or the Prince of Asturias, none are given in recognition of the careers of internationally prestigious legal experts, especially those who have made important contributions to legal culture. The International Award for Legal Culture is given to fill that void.
Recipient profiles: internationally recognised public personalities
An award that recognises a person’s career acquires prestige if the recipients have excellent qualifications and unblemished careers with great international impact. The recipients of this award must have had unquestionable careers of international distinction in the world of law.
Much more than an award
An award of such international prestige has many purposes. Taking advantage of the potential impact that a visit by a well-known person who presents the award to the recipient, we not only try to organise an award ceremony, as is traditional, but also a series of activities related to the recipient. Some of those activities would be aimed at the Spanish jurists, who would bask in the presence of so many first-class legal experts; other activities would attempt to disseminate information in society through conferences, debates and other events open to the general public.
