Max Planck- Cambridge Prize for International Law (MaxCamPIL) 2025
The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge are pleased to announce that the Max Planck-Cambridge Prize for International Law (MaxCamPIL) 2025 has been awarded to
Eliav Lieblich
Professor at Tel Aviv University
The Prize was established in 2018 by the Max Planck Institute and the Lauterpacht Centre with the generous donation of the Max Planck Society’s Supporting Members. It is awarded biennially to a mid-career scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to the study of international law and promises to continue to engage in substantial, innovative, and cutting-edge research. The Prize seeks to highlight existing research and to support the prize winner’s future work.
The Prize Committee unanimously agreed that Professor Eliav Lieblich is an outstanding, innovative, and highly original scholar. His work never ceases to engage, surprise, and amaze. Professor Lieblich has become a leading authority in the ius in bello and ius contra bellum, fields that have assumed a new centrality in international law. Moreover, he has provided major, impactful, and thought-provoking contributions to the history, theory, and methodology of international law. As such, he provides an outstanding example to younger scholars.
The award ceremony for 2025 took place on 14th November 2025 at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law in Cambridge.
Eliav Lieblich is a Professor at Tel Aviv University's Buchmann Faculty of Law, 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 recently served as the inaugural Hans Kelsen Visiting Professor for the History and Theory of International Law at the University of Cologne for the 2024-2025 academic year. He has also held visiting professorships at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Columbia Law School, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and has taught at the European University Institute's Academy of European Law.
Professor Lieblich earned his JSD and LLM degrees from Columbia Law School, where he was a recipient of the Norman E. Alexander Fellowship, and an LLB from Hebrew University, where he also completed a degree in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. He has received the Alon Scholarship for outstanding junior faculty, three Israel Science Foundation (ISF) research grants, and the Cegla Prize for Young Faculty.
He is the author of the monographs Occupation in International Law (with Eyal Benvenisti) and International Law and Civil Wars: Intervention and Consent, and is editor of Elgar's forthcoming Research Handbook on International Legal Theory and War (with Tom Dannenbaum). His scholarship has been published in leading journals including the European Journal of International Law, the Harvard International Law Journal, the British Yearbook of International Law, and the Hastings Law Journal. Professor Lieblich is general editor of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law and a member of the editorial board of Just Security.
Prior to his graduate studies, Professor Lieblich served as a law clerk to Acting Justice D. Cheshin of the Israeli Supreme Court. In recent years, he has participated as an expert in various international forums.
