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