As the Nobel Prizes for the year 2007 are being announced these days (the Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded on Friday, October 12) it might be interesting to note that this years Right Livelihood Award (also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”) went to inter alia the former ICJ-Judge Christopher G Weeramantry from Sri Lanka. Interesting from an international law perspective is the motivation given by the jury: Judge Weeramantry was awarded with the prize due to “his lifetime of groundbreaking work to strengthen and expand the rule of international law“. The jury furthermore stated that Judge Weeramantry’s “work…