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National mooting competitions
Please note that many universities have a staff member responsible
for organising their competition entries, and they are likely to be on the mailing list
/ in touch with organisers of the major UK competitions.
The ESU sponsored national mooting competition is the longest running UK national mooting competition with an excellent reputation.
Sponsors Essex Court run the web site for the competition: ESU Essex Court Chambers, which contains an excellent archive of example mooting problems.
Further information and details for entry to the next competition are available by email
from (replace [a] with @): mooting.uk[a]oup.com.
Alternatively by post: c/o OUP Mooting Competition, Higher Education Department, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street,
Oxford, OX2 6DP.
You can follow the progress of the current competition by visiting the OUP website.
This competition is open to undergraduate law students or CPE students, and is
run by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, with sponsorship from
Justis and the Law Society.
An online entry form for the competition is available here.
The deadline for 2005/6 applications is 16 October 2005. To qualify for entry each team must submit an original moot problem.
A registration fee of £15 is payable for each team. Team members must be undergraduate law students or CPE students.
Places in the competition will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
There is a maximum of 32 places available and late applicants will be placed on a waiting list.
The winners' names will be added to the Winners' Shield and each receive a year's subscription
to the Law Reports Online, as well as prizes from the competition sponsors. The losing finalists
will also receive a year's subscription to the Law Reports.
Click on the logo below for more information on the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, publishers of
the Weekly Law Reports. The ICLR also publish a regular student newsletter, available from them on request:
International mooting competitions
There are a number of international competitions open to entrants from UK universities, the two best known of which are:
Held every year since 1959, the Jessup is the best known international mooting competition,
with over 2000 students participating from over 90 countries. The competition is co-ordinated by the International Law Students Association, with
sponsorship from a range of organisations.
Current competition information is available on the ILSA web site here.
Please see above for details of the UK national competition.
Details of the case and competition rules as well as application forms can be found on the EMC² website.
This is a "sister" to the original Willem Vis competition,
and uses the same problem and rules. The Vis (East) began in 2003,
with 14 law school teams from 8 jurisdictions. Students from any law school are welcome
and some schools sent teams to both Willem Vis competitions.
The Telders Competition allows teams to moot a case between two states before the International Court of Justice.
23 European countries enter a team of four mooters in the competition.
The competition takes place at the Peace Palace in the Hague, and is judged
by judges from the International Court of Justice, as well as other experts on international law.
The "Concours Européen des Droits de l'Homme René Cassin" runs a competition based on the law of the European Court of Human Rights which is open to entrants from other European countries. A good working knowledge of French is useful!
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Vivienne Thomson, Moot Convenor - vivienne_thomson@esu.org
Or by post: Centre for Speech and Debate, The English-Speaking Union,
Dartmouth House, 37 Charles Street, London W1J 5ED, UK
Telephone: (020) 7529 1550 - Fax: (020) 7495 6108
Oxford University Press have teamed up with BPP Professional Education to present the OUP and BPP
National Mooting Competition, which has been going from strength to stength.
Dan Collacott - DanC@iclr.co.uk
Mooting competition administrator - mooting@iclr.co.uk
Or by post: The ICLR - The Weekly Law Reports Mooting Competition, Megarry House, 119 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PP.
Telephone: 020 7242 6471 - Fax: 020 7831 5247
Richard Padley, Chairman, email (replace [a] with @): r.j.padley[a]lse.ac.uk or londonuniversitymootingshield[a]googlemail.com
Or by post: ELSA London, c/o The Law School, King's College London, Strand WC2R 2LS
The London University Mooting Shield was set up by four university students to promote mooting in universities in London.
The Shield currently has four universities competing but is looking for more entrants for next year.
Allen and Overy, 3 Verulam Buildings and Field Court Chambers have sponsored the competition.
Or by post: ELSA London, c/o The Law School, King's College London, Strand WC2R 2LS
The ELSA Moot Court Competition is a competition on international trade law. More information is available from the ELSA London web site.
This competition has been running annually since 1999, and a total of
20 universities from around the UK now take part.
Gregory Jones, Prize Moot Organiser - clerks@twoharcourtbldgs.demon.co.uk
Telephone: (020) 7353 8415
Fax: (020) 7353 7622
Or by post: 2 Harcourt Buildings, Temple, London EC4Y 9DB
Full details of this moot, including the rules and problem, are published each December in the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association Law Journal.
An intervarsity competition held at Durham University, and organised by Durham students.
A competition between Bar Vocational Course students, organised by students at Nottingham Law School.
The Alexander Stone memorial competition is organised annually by a number of Scottish universities.
Laura McGregor, University of Glasgow School of Law - L.McGregor@law.gla.ac.uk
This competition is held annually between Bar Finals students from around the country, who compete at Lincoln's Inn.
Other competitions include:
Zoe Bosomworth, National Assistant Administrator of the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition, email (replace [a] with @): zoe.bosomworth[a]jessupuk.com
Jessup International Administrator, the International Law Students Association - ilsa@ilsa.org
Or by post: 25 East Jackson Boulevard, Suite 518, Chicago, Illinois 60604, USA
Telephone: (001) 202 299 9101 - Fax: (001) 202 299 9102
Organising Team - ot@mail.fd.ul.pt
Telephone: +351 21 793 46 24 - Fax: +351 21 796 60 37
Or by post: European Law Moot Court Competition, Organizing Team, c/o Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, Apartado 52103, 1700 Lisboa, Portugal
The current president of the Organising Team is António Santos.
This Europe-wide contest has been running annually since 1988, and allows
students of European law to meet and compete at mooting. Registration for the
competition, together with full details of the rules and key dates are available on the ELMC web site.
Mark Refalo - elsa@brutele.be
By post: The European Law Students' Association - ELSA International, 239, Bd General Jacques
1050 Brussels, Belgium
Telephone: +32-2-646 26 26
Fax: +32-2-646 29 23
The ELSA Moot Court Competition is a simulated WTO Dispute Settlement where teams represent the different
parties and argue their case before a panel of judges (moot panellists) who are all experts in WTO law.
Competitors must compete in national rounds (ELSA countries only) and/or regional rounds.
Successful teams then proceed to the finals which are held in Geneva at the WTO Headquarters.
A rather unusual international competition also runs annually:
Dr Ros Macdonald - Commonwealth Moot Coordinator - r.macdonald@qut.edu.au
Telephone: (0061) 738641100
Fax: (0061) 7 38642121
This international moot is only open to teams which are invited to compete.
Teams from 12 regions of the Commonwealth (Australia, New Zealand, South Pacific, East, West and South Africa, South Asia,(India) and South Asia (Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka), South East Asia, Caribbean, United Kingdom and North America (Canada)
are invited to represent their region on the basis of winning the relevant regional competition.
The UK representative team each year is the winner in that year of the ESU moot (see above).
Commonwealth Legal Education Association - clea@commonwealth.int
Professor Eric E. Bergsten - ebergsten@law.pace.edu or eric.bergsten@chello.at
Telephone and fax: (0043) 1 713-5408
Or by post: Schimmelgasse 16/14, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
Email: (replace [a] with @): info[a]cisgmoot.org
Host university (as at 10/07): Chinese University of Hong Kong School of Law, Bank of America Tower, Central Hong Kong.
Telders Organising Office - telders@campusdenhaag.nl
Telephone: 0031 70 302 1070
Fax: 0031 70 302 1025
Web site: http://www.telders.org
Or by post: P.O. Box 13228, 2501 EE The Hague, The Netherlands
Moot Court Competition Committee, c/o Moot Court Board, The John Marshall Law School, 315 South Plymouth Court, Chicago, Illinois 60604, USA
Professor Royal C. Gardner - gardner@law.stetson.edu
Telephone: 001 727 562 7864
Or by post: Stetson University College of Law, 1401 61st Street South, St. Petersburg, FL 33707-3299
Association Juris Ludi - juris@concourscassin.org
Telephone : 0033 3 88 37 18 78 - Fax : 0033 3 88 52 19 75
Or by post: 17 rue de la Haute-Montée, 67000 STRASBOURG (FR)
A number of national mooting competitions from other countries are listed here.
Australasian Lachs Moot Organiser - Ricky J. Lee - ricky@myoffice.net.au
Telephone: (0061) 262 743 708 - Fax: (0061) 262 743 111
Or by post: 33/19 Fawkner Street, Braddon ACT 2612, Australia
