8th Edition (2023)

8th ALL-EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AND REFUGEE LAW MOOT COURT COMPETITION

The Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana hosted the 8th edition of the All-European International Humanitarian and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition from 21 – 24 November 2023.

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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.

14 teams participated at the competition: Academy of State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan); Ivane Javakhsivhili Tbilisi State (Georgia); National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Law (Greece); Pazmany Peter Catholic University from Budapest (Hungary); Plovdiv University (Bulgaria); Radboud University, Nijmegen (the Netherlands); Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Bulgaria); Sokhumi State University, The Faculty of Law and Diplomacy (Georgia); Trnava University in Trnava (Slovakia); Universitatea Lucian Blaga from Sibiu (Romania); University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science (Serbia); University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law (Slovenia); University of Pristina (Kosovo); University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland).

8 teams reached the quarter-final round: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Law (Greece), Trnava University in Trnava (Slovakia), University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science (Serbia), Pazmany Peter Catholic University from Budapest (Hungary),  Plovdiv University (Bulgaria), University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland), Ivane Javakhsivhili Tbilisi State (Georgia) and Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Bulgaria).

Teams from the Ivane Javakhsivhili Tbilisi State (Georgia), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Law (Greece), Trnava University in Trnava (Slovakia) and University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science (Serbia) reached the semi-final rounds.

Teams from the Ivane Javakhsivhili Tbilisi State (Georgia) and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Law (Greece) reached the final round.

 

The Winning Team: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)

The Runner-Up Team: Ivane Javakhsivhili Tbilisi State (Georgia)

Best Oralists of the Competition: Ivan Vu Nhu, Trnava University in Trnava (Slovakia)

The Best Oralist of the Final Round: Iro Sala, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)

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.