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Justitia Awards 2026

celebrating outstanding women in law

Justitia Awards 2026

The Justitia Awards honors outstanding women in the legal profession who have made significant contributions to the legal world leading to an increase in gender equality and diversity. Support fellow women in law by nominating yourself or a colleague or peer whose work has brought about transformative change and deserves recognition.

Your nomination will contribute towards spotlighting significant achievements and promoting further progress for women. The nomination process has ended and we will present all shortlisted candidates soon.

Justitia Awards 2026

Award ceremony on September 11, 2026 in Vienna

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Categories

International Leaders / Lifetime Award

This category celebrates the most talented and impactful women in the legal professions, recognizing their achievements and contributions to society. The nominee is “the” outstanding woman of the year, demonstrating excellence as the most innovative and groundbreaking lifetime achiever.

Academia

The nominee has made a significant impact, delivered qualitatively and/or quantitatively measurable tangible results relative to the invested resources, and influenced demonstrable changes in attitudes, beliefs, and practices including aspects of gender equality in legal professions.

Game Changers / Pioneers / Young Achievers

The nominee is a game changer who has made an impact in the promotion of innovative approaches resulting in opportunities for women in law, or she is a young legal professional who has shattered the glass ceiling in her field. This includes new working methods where “business as usual” has failed and innovative “out-of-the-box” solutions have succeeded.

ELECTION COMMITTEE 2026

We are proud to present an esteemed panel of industry experts, including past Justitia Award Laureates, who will assess and select the best candidates across all categories.

All Justitia Award nominations are reviewed and a short list of the best candidates will be issued. Winners will be announced at our prestigious Awards Ceremony on September 11, 2026 in Vienna

Election Committee and Founder Women in Law Initiative
Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Legal Constitutional History at the University of Vienna School of Law.
Former member of the European Parliament
Head of the Austrian Ombudsman for Equal Treatment
Legal historian and professor at the University of Graz
Co-founder and founding president of Las jedem Vista Brasil
Federal Minister of European and International Affairs Austria
Austrian judge specializing in juvenil justice, family law and protecting children's and women's rights
Honorary President of the Austrian Bar ÖRAK
Contracts manager at Airbus Defense and Space GmbH
Research Professor of Law and Director of Programs at the University of Daytons Human Rights Center
Professor of Private International Law
Human rights lawyer and Eisenhower Global Scholar at Oxford
Commissioner for the Protection of Equality of the Republic of Serbia
Former legal officer at Ethiopias Ministry of Justice
Head of Compliance and Strategies of G.Lehnert
Founder of the Women in Law Initiative Pakistan
Director of the African Migration Observatory
First female lawyer, human rights activist from Pakistan
Dual-qualified lawyer specializing in cross-boarder M&A and EU foreign Desk
Former Director of the Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations at WU Vienna
Leading Austrian legal scholar specializing in labor, social and European economic law
President of the Austrian Bar Association ÖRAK
Prof. of business law at the University of Economics and Business in Vienna
Former President of the Supreme Court of Austria
Legal scholar and practitioner admitted to the High Court of South Africa in August 2024
Member of the UN CEDAW Committee
Legal scholar specializing in reproductive justice and women's rights
Lawyer and human rights advocate specializing in anti-discrimination and prevention of extremism