ICLQ Early Career Prize Winner Announced
Priya Urs Awarded the 2025 ICLQ Early Career Prize
The International and Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ) is delighted to announce that Dr Priya Urs has been awarded the 2025 Early Career Prize for her outstanding article 'The Articulation of Obligations Erga Omnes and Erga Omnes Partes by the International Court of Justice: Coherence or Confusion?' published in Vol 74(2) ICLQ. Dr Urs is Junior Research Fellow in Law at St John's College, University of Oxford, where she is nearing the end of a four-year research project on the articulation and enforcement of obligations erga omnes (partes) in international law. She is the author of the monograph Gravity at the International Criminal Court: Admissibility and Prosecutorial Discretion (OUP 2024).
The ICLQ Early Career Prize is awarded annually for the best article by an Early Career scholar, which is defined by the Journal as being either a PhD candidate or within 5 years of the award of their last academic degree or vocational legal qualification (7 years in the event of a career break) at the time of submission. The Prize is generously supported by Cambridge University Press who publish the ICLQ, with the winner receiving £250 worth of Cambridge University Press books of their choice.
The Prize will be awarded to Dr Urs on the occasion of the ICLQ Annual Lecture on 12 May 2026, when she will also have the opportunity to speak about her broader research in discussion with Professor Alex Mills, General Editor of the ICLQ.
The Annual Lecture is free to attend, but advance registration is required. For more information and to book, please see the event page.
