Diederiks-Verschoor Award

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 40 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.

In addition, the winner will receive a ticket for the IISL Dinner, where the medal will be officially handed over.

Previous winners

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	Ms Catherine Doldirina (Russia) for her paper A rightly balanced intellectual property rights regime as a mechanism to enhance commercial earth observation activities
2007	Mr Fabio Tronchetti for his paper The non-appropriation principle under attack using article II of the Outer Space Treaty in its defence
2006	Dr Yun Zhao for his paper Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Outer Space
2005	Ms Zeldine O'Brien for her paper Consumer protection and the limitation of liability in the national regulation of the space industry
2004	Ms Atsuyo Ito for her paper Legal Aspects of the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters
2003	Ms Gerardine Goh for her paper TINTALLE - Kindling International Security with Space Law
2002	Mr 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	Mr Alvaro Fabricio dos Santos (Brazil) for his paper Brazil and the Registration Convention.

Forms

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