The Journal is pleased to announce that Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade has been awarded the Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award for 2008. The award is given annually by the Journal to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the field of international law. Judge Cançado Trindade has dedicated his career to the pursuit of international justice and human rights in the Americas, serving in positions such as President, Vice-President and Associate Justice of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the international tribunal in charge of enforcing the American Convention on Human Rights ("Pacto de San Josè de Costa Rica"). He has been the Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, the Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Brazil and has acted as United Nations Expert and Lecturer at the United Nations' World Consultation on the Right to Development as a Human Right. Previous recipients of the Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award have included Richard N. Gardner, Louis Henkin, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, James A. Baker III, Hans Blix, Harold Koh, Ian Brownlie, Antonio Cassese and the Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor. Judge Cançado Trindade received the award at a banquet on Tuesday, April 8, at Terrace in the Sky (400 W. 119th Street, in New York City, just a few blocks from Columbia Law School). For information regarding the award, please contact Journal Public Affairs Editor Xiuming Shum (xs2127@columbia.edu).