Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition

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The Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition is the largest gathering of students, academics and judges around the theme of human rights in Africa. This annual event brings together many of law faculties in Africa, whose top students argue a hypothetical human rights case as if they were before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The Competition prepares new generations of lawyers to argue cases of alleged human rights violations before the African Court. Since its creation in 1992, 175 universities from 50 African countries have taken part in this permanent fixture on the Africa legal education calendar.  Visit Academia section of Nica.team to know more. 

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Christof Heyns African HR Moot
Statistics since
2013
Eligibility
International
Working Languages
Field
International Human Rights Law
Website
Social network
Christof Heyns African HR Moot Editions
2024  
2023  
2022  
2021 (30th edition)  
2014 (23)  
2013 (22)  

Organisers

Title

Number of Teams

Past Finalists

Year
Winner
Runner-up
2022
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
flag-GH Ghana
Makerere University
flag-UG Uganda
Stellenbosch University
flag-ZA South Africa
University Felix-Houphouet-Boigny
flag-CI Cote D'Ivoire
British University
flag-EG Egypt
Jean Piaget University of Angola
flag-AO Angola
Kenyatta University
flag-KE Kenya
University of Khartoum
flag-SD Sudan
2021
Kenyatta University
flag-KE Kenya
University Felix-Houphouet-Boigny
flag-CI Cote D'Ivoire
Eduardo Mondlane University
flag-MZ Mozambique
Stellenbosch University
flag-ZA South Africa
2014
Gaston Berger University
flag-SN Senegal
University of Nairobi
flag-KE Kenya
University Felix-Houphouet-Boigny
flag-CI Cote D'Ivoire
University of Pretoria
flag-ZA South Africa
2013
Catholic University of Angola
flag-AO Angola
Moi University
flag-KE Kenya
Université Des Lagunes
flag-CI Cote D'Ivoire
Eduardo Mondlane University
flag-MZ Mozambique
Free University of Kinshasa
flag-CD Congo, Democratic Republic
Stellenbosch University
flag-ZA South Africa

Track records (2013-2024)

Law School
Winner
Runner-up
Recent title
University Felix-Houphouet-Boigny
flag-CI Cote D'Ivoire
2
1
2022
Stellenbosch University
flag-ZA South Africa
1
2
2022
Kenyatta University
flag-KE Kenya
1
1
2021
Makerere University
flag-UG Uganda
1
0
2022
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
flag-GH Ghana
1
0
2022
University of Nairobi
flag-KE Kenya
1
0
2014
Gaston Berger University
flag-SN Senegal
1
0
2014
Université Des Lagunes
flag-CI Cote D'Ivoire
1
0
2013
Catholic University of Angola
flag-AO Angola
1
0
2013
Moi University
flag-KE Kenya
1
0
2013
Eduardo Mondlane University
flag-MZ Mozambique
0
2
British University
flag-EG Egypt
0
1
Jean Piaget University of Angola
flag-AO Angola
0
1
University of Pretoria
flag-ZA South Africa
0
1
University of Khartoum
flag-SD Sudan
0
1
Free University of Kinshasa
flag-CD Congo, Democratic Republic
0
1
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