9th Edition (2024)

9th ALL-EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AND REFUGEE LAW MOOT COURT COMPETITION

The Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana hosted the 9th edition of the All-European International Humanitarian and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition from 19 – 22 November 2024.

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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.

19 teams participated at the competition: Catholic University from Budapest, Pazmany Peter (Hungary); Jagiellonian University, Faculty of International and Political Studies (Poland); Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Law and Administration (Poland); National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Law School (Greece); Police Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan); Radboud University (The Netherlands); Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (Bulgaria); Sokhumi State University (Georgia); Tbilisi State University (Ivane Javakhishvili) (Georgia); Trnava University (Slovakia); UCLouvain (Belgium); University in Kosice, Faculty of Law (Pavol Jozef Safarik) (Slovakia); University of Belgrade - Faculty of Political Science (Serbia); University of Ferrara, Department of Law (Italy); University of Glasgow (United Kingdom); University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law (Slovenia); University of Plovdiv "Paisii Hilendarski" (Bulgaria); University of Sibiu, Faculty of Law (Lucian Blaga) (Romania), and University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland). 

All 19 team participated in 3 preliminary rounds, whereas the best 8 teams proceeded to the quarter-final round: Catholic University from Budapest, Pazmany Peter (Hungary); National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Law School (Greece); Police Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan); Radboud University (The Netherlands); Tbilisi State University (Ivane Javakhishvili) (Georgia); University of Belgrade - Faculty of Political Science (Serbia); University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law (Slovenia), and University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland).

4 teams reached the semi-final rounds: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Law School (Greece); Tbilisi State University (Ivane Javakhishvili) (Georgia); University of Belgrade - Faculty of Political Science (Serbia), and University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law (Slovenia). 

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

The Winning Team: Tbilisi State University (Ivane Javakhishvili) (Georgia)

The Runner-Up Team: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Law School (Greece)

Best Oralists of the Competition: Živa Srše (Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

The Best Oralist of the Final Round: Anano Natchkebia (Tbilisi State University (Ivane Javakhishvili), Georgia). 

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.