Brief history of our awards
Among others, the following notables have received the prestigious WJA Awards:
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023| Santo Domingo , Dominican RP
José Mª Alonso
President of the Madrid International Arbitration Center
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023 | New York , USA
Brad Karp
Chairman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton&Garrison
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023 | New York , USA
Santiago Martínez Garrido
Secretary General of the Board of Iberdrola
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023 | New York , USA
Jed S. Rakoff
Senior Judge, US Ditrict Court in New York
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023 | New York , USA
United Nations Office of Legal Affairs
Received by Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs and UN Legal Counsel
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023 | New York , USA
Martin Baron
Former editor of the Washington Post & Boston Globe
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023 | New York , USA
David Mills
Professor at Standord University
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023 | New York , USA
Diego García-Sayán
UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (2016-2022)
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023 | New York , USA
Kari Kuusiniemi
President of the Supreme Administrative Court
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023 | New York , USA
Ricardo Pérez Manrique
President of the Inter-American Court of the US
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023
Nancy Hollander
American Criminal Defense Attormey
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023
Manuel Aragón Reyes
Judge Emeritus of the Constitutional Court of Spain
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023
Pedro Pérez-Llorca
Director and Senior Partner at Pérez-Llorca
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023
Luis de Carlos Bertrán
Former Managing Partner at Uría Méndez, Trustee of Profesor Uría Foundation
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023
Kerry Kennedy
President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023
Luis Almagro
Uruguay, Secretary General of the Organization of American States
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023
Ignacio Sánchez Galán
Spain, President of Iberdrola
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023
Brian Preston
Australia, President of the Land and Environment Court in New South Wales
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023
Luc Lavrysen
President of the Constitutional Court of Belgium
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023
Richard Wagner
Chief Justice of Canada
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WJA Medal of Honor 2023
Stephen Breyer
Retired Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021
Antonio Ramón Villaraigosa
Los Angeles City Major 2005-2013
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021
Hilarie Bass
President of the American Bar Association 2017-2018
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021
Patricia Lee Refo
Immediate President of the American Bar Association 2020-2021
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
The World Justice Project
Received by Elizabeth Anderson, Executive Director
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
Framers of the Political Constitution of Colombia of 1991
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
Cheol-Kyu Hwang
President of the International Association of Prosecutors
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
José Igreja Matos
President of the International Association of Judges
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
Reginald Turner
President of the American Bar Association
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
Movimiento de Abogacía Renovada
Received by Juan Gonzalo Ospina
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
Jorge Martí Moreno
President of the International Association of Lawyers
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
Wilson Ruíz Orejuela
Minister of Justice of Colombia
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WJA Medal of Honor2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
Jaime Pumarejo Heins
Barranquilla City Major
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
Carlos Julio Ardila Gaviria
President of Organización Ardila Lülle
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
María Eugénia Gay Rosell
Dean of the Barcelona Bar Association
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
Grupo Mutua Madrileña & Seguros del Estado
Received by Jaime Montalvo, Vice-President
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
UNIR
Received by Rafael Puyol, President
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
The Icon
Received by Francisco Rodríguez, President
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WJA Medal of Honor 2021 | Barranquilla, COLOMBIA
Jaime Alfonsín
Head of the Royal Household of Spain
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Rome, ITALY
Lucio Ghia
WJA President 1995-1997
WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Rome, ITALY
His Holiness Pope Francis
Honorary President of El País
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Madrid, SPAIN
José María Alonso
Dean of the Madrid Bar Association
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Madrid, SPAIN
Miguel Riaño
Managing Partner of Herbert Smith Freehills
WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Madrid, SPAIN
Luis de Carlos
President of Uría-Menéndez
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Madrid, SPAIN
Pedro Pérez-Llorca
Managing Partner of Pérez-Llorca
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Madrid, SPAIN
Carlos Rueda
President of the Board of Gómez-Acebo y Pombo
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Madrid, SPAIN
Federico Linares
President of EY Spain
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Madrid, SPAIN
José Ángel Martínez Sanchiz
President of the Spanish Council of Notaries
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Madrid, SPAIN
Fernando Vives Ruiz
Executive Chairman of Garrigues
WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Madrid, SPAIN
Jorge Badía
Chief Executive Officer of Cuatrecasas
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Madrid, SPAIN
César Albiñana
Managing Partner of CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo
WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
Franklin Hoet Linares
WJA President 1991-1993 & 2015-2019
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
Francisco de la Torre
Málaga City Major
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
Rafael Catalá
Former Minister of Justice of Spain
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
José Ramón Navarro
President of the Spanish National Court
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
Francisco Javier Lara
Dean of the Malaga Bar Association
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
Albert Rivera
President of Ciudadanos Party
WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
Manuel Aragón
Academic Director of the World Law Congress 2019
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
Viviane Reding
Vice-Presidenta of the European Commission (2010-2014)
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
Juan José Hinojosa
Dean of the Malaga Law Faculty
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
Victoria Ortega
President of the Spanish General Council of Lawyers
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
Francisco Salado Escaño
President of Malaga Diputation
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
Antonio Pulido
President of Cajasol
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
José Luis Sánchez Domínguez
President of Sando
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
Federico Beltrán
President of Famadesa
WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
Luis Martí
Honorary Dean of the Madrid Bar Association
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WJA Medal of Honor 2019 | Málaga, SPAIN
Juan Luis Cebrián
Honorary President of El País