title: Gruber Prize for Justice
text: # Gruber Prize for Justice
  
  The Gruber Prize for Justice, established in 2001, was one of five international prizes worth US$500,000 awarded by The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, an American non-profit organization.
  
  Recipients were selected by a distinguished panel of international legal experts from nominations received from around the world.
  
  The Gruber Foundation Justice Prize was presented to individuals or organizations for contributions that have advanced the cause of justice as delivered through the legal system. The award was intended to acknowledge individual efforts, as well as to encourage further advancements in the field and progress toward bringing about a fundamentally just world.
  
  ## Recipients
  
  * 2011: Barbara Arnwine; Morris Dees; Association for Civil Rights in Israel; Center for Legal and Social Studies ; and Kurdish Human Rights Project
  * 2010: The Honourable Michael Kirby; John Dugard; and the Indian Law Resource Center
  * 2009: Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), and European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), an international public interest law organization that combats anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Roma in Europe
  * 2008: Judge Thomas Buergenthal and Jerome J. Shestack
  * 2007: Justice Carmen Argibay of Argentina; Judge Carlos Cerda Fernández of Chile; and international lawyer Mónica Feria Tinta of Peru
  * 2006: Aharon Barak, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel
  * 2005: Dato Param Cumaraswamy
  * 2004: Former Chief Justices Arthur Chaskalson and Pius Langa, both of South Africa
  * 2003: Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella and Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, both of Canada
  * 2002: Fali Sam Nariman
  * 2001: Chief Justice Anthony Roy Gubbay and Sternford Moyo
  