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 Serge Lazareff Prize 

1.	The prize: Categories and awardees The Serge Lazareff prize is a distinction awarded for meritorious legal seniors, both engaged with NATO/ACO and from outside the organisation, in recognition of their outstanding work and helpful support in developing the knowledge of NATO legal position(s), in accordance with the different governing treaties and/or in relation with NATO-led operations, and NATO archives as an International Organisation. There are four different Serge Lazareff prize categories:

a)	Ordinary, individual

b)	With distinction, individual

c)	Collective

d)	Honorary

2.	Serge Lazareff’s contribution to NATO

Serge Lazareff was born in Paris in 1926 and died in 2012. He was lawyer, Doctor in Law and the first French post-war scholar to be accepted to Harvard and Commander of the Legion of Honour and received many other prizes and honours. Mr. Lazareff also pursued a career in public service and also as General Counsel for International Operations ad Vice-President Asia-Pacific with the French industrial group, Penichey. Mr. Lazareff acted as interpreter and provided aide notably as a Legal Adviser to the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces Central Europe (NATO) (General Eisenhower) during the drafting of the NATO Treaty. Strong believer that the new phenomenon of the peace time policy of military interdepended was arising, with foreign military forces being permanently stationed in peace time, he settled the way of the Alliance collaboration which implies many political, economic, military and economic problems which needed to be solved in order to allow the Alliance worked effectively. He was also very involved in teaching and heavily contributed to the evolution of arbitral doctrine in his writings. Considered to be as he ‘father’ of the 1951 NATO Status of Armed Forces Agreement.

The Serge Lazareff prize aims to recognise the importance Mr. Lazareff carried during all his life on behalf of NATO, recognizing people who, following his example and in his memory, the significant contribution to the NATO Legal activities, following the way paved by him. The ACO Legal Office wants to inspire individuals to pursue this path of collaboration through words in support and influencing researches by taking pride hosting this Prize.