The IBFD Frans Vanistendael Award for International Tax Law
IBFD wishes to promote outstanding scientific research output on international tax law. For this purpose, it decided to introduce the IBFD Frans Vanistendael Award for International Tax Law, named after its well-esteemed former Academic Chairman, Prof. Dr Frans Vanistendael. Professor Vanistendael is renowned for producing academic content at the highest of scientific standards and has long been distinguished as one of the most far-sighted scholars in the field of international tax law.
I. Funding, focus and requirements
II. Application and selection process
Eligible publications are all articles, books, book chapters and monographs on international tax law (including European Union tax law), in paper or digital format (with an ISBN or ISSN number), published in English between 1.01.2018 and 31.12.2018, which have provided an outstanding contribution to the development of international tax law. In case of doubt, the temporal criterion to ascertain eligibility is the date of the ISBN / ISSN.
Applications may be submitted by anyone (therefore not just by the author) by 31 December 2018 via email to ibfd.award@ibfd.org.
The recipient of the 2019 Frans Vanistendael Award for International Tax Law will be selected by an international jury composed of: Reuven Avi-Yonah, Ana Paula Dourado, Marjaana Helminen, Ruth Mason, Yoshihiro Masui, Jörg Manfred Mössner, Pasquale Pistone (Chairman), Jennifer Roeleveld and Miranda Stewart.
The jury decides on the winner of the award by a two-thirds majority. In case that a majority cannot be reached after two rounds of votes, the decision is taken by simple majority.
The conferral of the 5th IBFD Frans Vanistendael Award will take place in Amsterdam on 30 April 2019 during the closing ceremony of the Doctoral Meeting of Researchers in International Taxation (DocMIT) and Postdoctoral International Tax Forum (PITF).
The 2018 edition was carried out with the support of the following jury members: Reuven Avi-Yonah, Ana Paula Dourado, Marjaana Helminen, Yoshihiro Masui, Jörg Manfred Mössner, Pasquale Pistone (Chairman), John Prebble, Jennifer Roeleveld and Miranda Stewart The following publications have been shortlisted:
IBFD is pleased to announce that Prof. Tsilly Dagan (Israel) is the winner of the 4th IBFD Frans Vanistendael Award for her book titled “International Tax Policy: Between Competition and Cooperation”, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.
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Previous winners
View the 2017 winner and shortlist
View the 2016 winner and shortlist
View the 2015 winners and shortlist