With due regard to the law – in Kenya
Students from Kenya’s Strathmore University School of Law became the first African team to win the John H. Jackson Moot Court on World Trade Organization (WTO) Law.
The team of three students, namely Mishael Wambua, Kandalla Maleehah, and Catherine Penda, made history after beating Harvard Law School in the final of the competition held in Geneva, Switzerland on Saturday.
Full story over at mwakilishi.com
Bradford University Law Society has put together a useful series of short videos on mooting.
‘How Not to Moot‘ is both instructive and amusing.
If your students haven’t yet visited the excellent Lawbore™ site, it’s tutorials are highly recommended. Lawbore™ is the City Law School’s (UK) legal portal. There is a very good set of tips for mooting there at http://learnmore.lawbore.net/index.php/Mooting_Top_Tips.
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I think even the experts can enjoy these.
The International Institute of Space Law (IISL) organises the The Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition each year. It is an important part of the organisation’s outreach programme, and its principal mechanism for engaging future generations of space law experts. The competition is based on a hypothetical space law dispute before the International Court of Justice.
The World Finals for 2011 are to be held on 6 October 2011 at the High Court of Cape Town, South Africa. The problem for 2011 is the Case concerning Environmental Contamination and Harmful Interference in Space Activities (Zuris v. Nova Freedonia) written by Dr Patricia Sterns and Dr Les Tennen (United States).
