The CCIL welcomes the appointment of Her Excellency the Right Honourable Louise Arbour as Canada’s 31st Governor General. Over the course of her distinguished career, she has served as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, as well as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. In 2009, she was awarded the Read Medal by the CCIL in recognition of her outstanding contribution

Since Strasbourg (2015), The Hague (2019), and Lima (2023), the World Meetings of Societies for International Law have brought together national, regional, and specialized learned societies, as well as distinguished practitioners, policymakers, and high level representatives of intergovernmental and non-governmental international organizations, around a common objective: to strengthen exchanges between learned societies, to share their experiences, as well as to collectively

The Scholarly Book Award is conducted every two years for scholarly books that make a substantial contribution to the international law literature Any member of CCIL may submit a book published during the two calendar years prior to the year of the award. Thus, books eligible for the 2026 award are those that have been published in 2024 or 2025. The same book may not be submitted more than once. Co-authored books may be submitted if the primary author is eligible to submit