ANNOUNCEMENT
33rd Edition of the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition 2010
England is the winner of the Final Round of the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition 2010.
The Telders Organizing Office is pleased to announce that the winning team of the Final Round of the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition is the English team from the University College London. The other finalist was the German team from the University of Cologne. The Judges deciding the final in the Great Hall of Justice of the Peace Palace were H.E. Judge Abdul Koroma and H.E. Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf from the International Court of Justice, and Prof. Dr. John Dugard, Professor Emeritus at Leiden University.
Other awards
Leiden University won the Max Huber Award for the highest overall score of both the Applicant and Respondent Sides.
The Carnegie Foundation Awards for the Best Memorial for the Applicant and for the Best Memorial for the Respondent went to the Swedish team from Uppsala University.
The Award for Best Oral Argumentation on behalf of the Applicant went to the Irish team from the Honorable Society of King’s Inn. The Award for Best Oral Argumentation on behalf of the Respondent was won by the English team from the University College London.
There were two winners ex aequo who share the Best Oralist Award, Ms. Charlotte Finnegan from the Honorable Society of King’s Inns, Ireland, and Mr. Richard Davies from Vienna University, Austria. Runner-up Best Oralist was Ms. Marjolijn Molenaar from Leiden University.
The participating students awarded the Best Judge Award to Prof. Dra. Maria del Angel Iglesias from Spain.
The Leiden Journal for International Law Award for Outstanding Team Effort went to the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Finally, the Students for Students Award, presented by the Telders Society of International Law, was awarded to the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University from Georgia.
Telders Competition 2010
The Telders Competition was held from 22 to 24 April in the Peace Palace in The Hague. Ultimately 26 teams from 26 European countries took part in the competition. Unfortunately, the team from the University of Malta could not make it to the Netherlands due to the volcanic ash situation. Many teams travelled for many hours and with various ways of transport to make it in time to The Hague.
The participating teams pleaded The Case of Pirates in the Treasured Sea which involved various complicated legal problems of international law which were to be decided in light of several important multilateral conventions. The facts were quite detailed and there were many difficult issues to be decided. The Case Author was Mr. Jan Bangert from Germany.
Objectives Telders Competition
The competition has always been taking place in the Peace Palace in The Hague. The annually growing number of teams participating resulted in a total of 43 registrations from universities across Europe. National rounds were held in 8 countries. Norway was a first time competitor. The main objective of the Telders Competition is to stimulate students’ interest and knowledge of international law. It is an exceptional opportunity for the participants in a variety of ways. In taking part, students are educated in legal practice, and such important principles as the rule of law and fair play.
Contributors
The Telders Competition 2010 has been facilitated by:
Bakker & Neve Netwerk Notarissen, BRILL/Martinus Nijhoff Academic Publishers; Cambridge University Press, Carnegie Foundation; Caterer Chef aan Huis Patrick Dullaart, City of Leiden; City of The Hague; Cornelis van Vollenhoven Foundation; Foundation 'Dr Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds'; Jongbloed Law Booksellers; Leiden University; Leiden Journal of International Law; Parkhotel The Hague; Pels Rijcken & Droogleever Fortuijn Law Firm; Romanian Embassy in The Hague, Swiss Embassy in The Hague; T.M.C. Asser Press; Thomson Reuters, and Wolf Legal Publishers.
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