Awards
League of Scholars
In 2019, Anthea was named the world’s leading international law scholar and Australia’s leading law scholar by the League of Scholars.
In 2022 and 2023, Anthea was named Australia’s leading international law scholar by the League of Scholars.
This ranking system is based on the quality of publications and the quantity of citations they have received over the preceding five years. For more on the methodology used, see here.
AJIL Francis Deák Prize
American Journal of International Law (AJIL), 2010, 2002
Anthea has twice won this award, established to honor a younger author who has published a meritorious contribution to international legal scholarship in the American Journal of International Law (AJIL). She was awarded the Prize in 2010 for “Power and Persuasion in Investment Treaty Interpretation: The Dual Role of States”, and in 2002 for “Traditional and Modern Approaches to Customary International Law: A Reconciliation”.
ASIL Certificate of Merit for Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship
American Society of International Law (ASIL), 2018
Anthea received an ASIL Certificate of Merit for her book Is International Law International?. The Awards Committee wrote:
Roberts turns a beguilingly simple question into a globe-trotting, multi-method quest for a map of international law’s players and meanings. Simultaneously irreverent and serious-minded … the book does not just dissolve international law’s myths of universality; it is a nascent sociology of the field of international law and the beginning of a new field of comparative international law. In an era in which Western dominance over international law no longer looks certain, this book provides the tools for a more nuanced understanding of international law’s politics, revealing the deeper meanings and stakes of current debates.
Futures Scheme Award
Australian National University, 2017
The ANU awarded Anthea one of its inaugural Futures Scheme grants for her emerging research agenda on investment treaty reforms, geoeconomics and the pushback against economic globalization. The ANU Futures Scheme was established in 2017 to attract world-leading mid-career scholars to the ANU.
J G Crawford Award
Australian National University, 2019
Anthea’s PhD thesis “Is International Law International?,” since published as an award-winning book, was awarded the prize for the best ANU social science PhD. The panel wrote:
With both great conceptual ambition and finely grained empirical analysis, Dr Roberts challenged the traditional account that international law is a universal system of rules and principles... She skilfully observed the profound variations between jurisdictions and made a sustained and original argument that international law is deeply inflected by local and regional patterns…. It has been OUP’s highest seller in international law over the last 12 months. The book has already been widely cited in the international law literature.
Philip Leverhulme Prize
Leverhulme Trust, 2012
Anthea won this prize for her work on public international law, particularly investment treaty law and arbitration. Philip Leverhulme Prizes have been offered since 2001 to researchers at an early stage of their careers whose work has had international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally promising.
Other Awards and Scholarships
2019-2020 Ranked 2nd, Best International Law Books of All Time, Book Authority
2019 Honourable Mention (2nd prize) for the International Law Book Award for Is International Law International? (OUP, 2017), International Studies Association
2011 LSE Major Review Teaching Prize (university-wide teaching prize)
2010 LSE Law Department Teaching Prize
2004 Jerome Lipper Award for Best Student in the NYU LLM in International Legal Studies
2003 NYU Hauser Scholarship
2003 NYU CV Starr Global Scholarship
2003 Australian Fulbright Scholarship
2003 Australian Fulbright WG Walker Award
2001 University Medal in Law (1st in class of 210 students), Australian National University
2000 Blackburn Medal for Best Honours Thesis in Law, Australian National University
1998 Visiting Student Merit Award, University of Oxford
1996 National Undergraduate Scholarship, Australian National University
1995 Australian Students Prize