Summer has come and we bet you missed the latest news! And we have two of them!
1) On June 6, the virtual oral rounds of the competition on International Criminal Law started. According to the organizers, this year a record number of 80 teams will take part in 497 online hearings with more than 240 volunteer judges. Already on June 27, we will find out which of the teams was most successful in solving the case of H5N8 Avian Influenza.
2) And on June 7, the 44th edition of Telders begins! For 6 consecutive days, participants will compete for the title of champion. Each team will be pleading twice as Applicant and twice as Respondent in the Almontan Shrubland case, and the final will be held on June 12. Stay tuned to find out more.
*1) ICC Moot Court is an annual international moot court competition on international criminal law that is held in 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.
Each team takes on three roles in a hypothetical case: prosecutor, legal representative of victims, and defence counsel. Each role writes a memorial which is reviewed and judged by a legal expert, which helps determine who goes through to the next round. The final round of the competition takes place at the premises of the ICC, judged by a bench including ICC judges.
*2) The Telders International Law Moot Court Competition is organized by a team under the direction of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Campus The Hague of Leiden University.
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. Per European country, only the university winning the national rounds may participate in the international rounds held in The Hague.