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It is named after Philip Jessup, who once served on the ICJ, and is organised by the International Law Students Association (ILSA). The moot, under the leadership of Stephen Schwebel (who also wrote the inaugural moot problem), [13] started as a friendly advocacy competition between two teams from Harvard University in 1960. [14]
The International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition or ICCMCC is an annual international moot court competition on international criminal law that is held at The Hague and organised by the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University, The Hague Campus, with the institutional support of the International Criminal Court and International Bar Association.
Moot court is a co-curricular activity at many law schools. Participants take part in simulated court or arbitration proceedings, usually involving drafting memorials or memoranda and participating in oral argument. In many countries, the phrase "moot court" may be shortened to simply "moot" or "mooting".
The Nuremberg Moot is an international moot court competition. Held partially at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice [2] [3] and organised by the International Nuremberg Principles Academy and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, this competition now attracts around 60 to 100 teams from around the world annually, though not all are selected to participate in Nuremberg.
It was ranked among the top in the world at the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition 2006 at Washington, D.C. [22] In 2007, Nalsar was placed among the top eight teams in the world, at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. In 2010, the team from Nalsar finished as semi-finalists in the ...
The idea behind 2017's moot court problem was to make participants argue whether or not the actions and speech of a particular political figure qualified as seditious and could be punishable with the death penalty. [6] [7] It is set in a fictional democratic country Camelot which became independent in 1947 and adopted a federal constitution. A ...
As of 2023, 61 different law schools have competed in Tokyo since the moot's inception. For some schools, the moot (as is the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot ) is seen as a rite of passage for Asian mooters before they go on to participate in the larger international moots, such as the Jessup Moot and Vis Moot .
The moot was created and organised by the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford, and is named after the programme's founding director, Monroe E. Price, a professor specialising in communications law. In 2017, the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights took over as the organiser.