Applied project «Philip C. Jessup international law moot court competition training 2023-2024»

The goal of the project is to train HSE Law Faculty’s students to participate in the Philip C. Jessup international law moot court competition.

The Competition was established in 1959 as an international law competition of Harvard university, held as a moot court – an imitation of proceedings before the International Court of Justice of the United Nations. Today, Philip C. Jessup moot court is one of the most famous and reputable moot courts in the world, uniting around 3000 students from more than 700 universities across 100 countries. HSE successfully participates in the competition since 2012.

The project will result in enhanced legal drafting and oral performance in English. The quality of the skills can be assessed through written Memorials for the applicant and the respondent, and oral presentations. Grades given by the judges, as well as the overall statistics are published on the Competition’s website.

Coaches are Anastasiya Burnakina and Matvey Tarasov, PhD candidates, and Alena Ilchenko, a secod year master student «Law of international trade and dispute resolution».