7th Edition (2022)
7th ALL-EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AND REFUGEE LAW MOOT COURT COMPETITION
The Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana hosted the 7th edition of the All-European International Humanitarian and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition from 15 – 18 November 2022.
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The competition took place at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana.
RELEVANT INFORMATION
The Moot Court Competition was based on the Case Study, providing for relevant facts of the case concerning a fictitious armed conflict. Before each round teams received additional facts and were allocated roles that they had to present before the judges. Teams had limited time to prepare for each pleading.
The preliminary and quarter-final rounds of the Competition involved simulations of meetings between the parties to the conflict and various international organisations, as well as between other State and non-State actors. In this stage, competitors addressed topical issues in the field of international humanitarian law, and international refugee law.
The semi-final and final rounds involved a simulation of the criminal proceedings before the International Criminal Court (one team acted as the Office of the Prosecutor, the other as the Public Counsel for the Defence), and thereby addressed fundamental issues of international criminal law.
11 teams participated at the competition: Ankara University (Turkey), Bursa Uludağ University (Turkey), Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Greece), University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland), Trnava University in Trnava (Slovakia), Marmara University (Turkey), Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (Slovakia), Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (Bulgaria), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia) and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).
8 teams reached the quarter-final round: Bursa Uludağ University (Turkey), University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland), Trnava University in Trnava (Slovakia), Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (Slovakia), Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (Bulgaria), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia) and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).
Teams from the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland), Trnava University in Trnava (Slovakia), Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (Bulgaria) and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) reached the
semi-final rounds.
Teams from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (Bulgaria) reached the final round.
The Winning Team: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
The Runner-Up Team: Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (Bulgaria)
Best Oralists of the Competition: Ivan Vu Nhu, Trnava University in Trnava (Slovakia)
The Best Oralist of the Final Round: Polyxeni Dimopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
In addition to the competition, two side events took place on 15th November 2022, Regional Meeting of University Professors: ‘Teaching IHL close to conflict: reflections on 2022 IHL teaching in Europe’ and Round Table: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Practice: International Humanitarian and International Refugee Law Perspectives with two panellists Prof. Dr. Yuval Shany (Faculty of Law, Hebrew University) and Rebeca Moreno Jimenez (UNHCR Innovation Service) and chaired by Prof. Dr. Vasilka Sancin (Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana).
The organisation of the Competition would not be possible without the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Slovenian Red Cross.
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