Andres Roemer Microsoft Award for distinction in service to the community of scholars

The Microsoft Corporation has funded one prize of $1,000 to be awarded to an individual who in the course of the year makes an extraordinary contribution to promoting the economic approach to law in Latin America and the Caribbean and to creating a wider academic community of scholarship and research throughout the Americas. Applicants for the award must meet these restrictions:

• The individual may be an academic or professional lawyer or economist, or an elected or appointed judge, lawmaker or official, who resides in a Latin American or Caribbean country.
• The individual shall have actively worked in the Latin America-Caribbean area to reform legal education by building a law curriculum around the economic approach to law, to contribute to the breaking down of the barriers that tend to divide the world of academic scholarship and research, or to shape the direction of legal education.
• The selection will be made by a small committee of scholars on the basis of the contribution made by the individual.