The International Cultural Property Society and the Art-Law Centre of the University of Geneva established an annual fellowship in honor of Professors Pierre Lalive and John Henry Merryman, aimed at the promotion and development of emerging scholars in the field of international cultural heritage law and related fields such as art and museum law.
The Fellowship is awarded to a scholar for the best article published in the International Journal of Cultural Property in the preceding calendar year. To be eligible, the author must have been under 40 years of age at the time of the article’s publication.
The Pierre Lalive and John Henry Merryman Fellow in Art and Cultural Heritage Law is a residency fellowship hosted by the Art-Law Centre of the University of Geneva for a period of no less than two and no more than four weeks, at a time mutually convenient to the Centre, and a Fellow for 12 months, running from 1 May in the year of the award’s announcement. During the visit, the Fellow is expected to work on publishable research and engage in the activities of the Centre. The Fellow will be provided with office and library facilities.