Anaya Honored by American Society for International Law

The American Society for International Law (ASIL) presented Professor James Anaya with its 2016 Goler T. Butcher Medal during its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. 
 
The medal is awarded each year to "a distinguished person of American or other nationality, for outstanding contributions to the development or effective realization of international human rights." Previous recipients include 
M. Cherif Bassiouni, Dinah Shelton, Louis Henkin and Thomas Buergenthal.
 
Anaya is Regents' Professor and James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy and Co-Chair of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy program.
 
Just last month, he was appointed by the president of the United Nations General Assembly as a co-facilitator for consultations to consider means of enhancing Indigenous peoples participation within the UN system.