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NaUKMA students win the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition

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Published on Monday, 27 June 2016 15:41

The team students from National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" has won the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition, the most prestigious and important moot court competition in Europe.

Annually, teams from over 40 universities compete in the national rounds, with the winning teams going on to represent their countries in the international rounds held at Faculty Campus The Hague of Leiden University and the Peace Palace in The Hague.

Through the Competition students are educated in legal practice and such principles as the rule of law, civil society and fair play. Each year student-teams are presented with a case involving a fictitious dispute between two states. This dispute is put before the United Nations' most important legal organ, the International Court of Justice. It is up to the student-teams to defend the two states to the best of their ability. Each student-team has to represent the states substantively both in writing and through pleadings before so-called moot courts.

National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" is the Winner of the Final Round 2016, as well as theMax Huber Award for Best Overall Score winner, the Carnegie Foundation Award for the Best Memorial on Behalf of the Applicant winner, and the Carnegie Foundation Award for the Best Memorial on Behalf of the Respondent winner.