SFU Team – 2013 Jessup Russian Champion

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 February 2013 12:56

The students of the Siberian Federal University have won Russian National Round of the Jessup Moot Court Competition, which is the largest and most prestigious moot court in the world.

In 2013 Jessup Russian National Round welcomed 41 university teams.

In the Final Round, held between the Siberian Federal University and the Higher School of Economics, the Panel of three judges - Judge Erik Møse (European Court of Human Rights), Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill (Oxford University), Professor William Burke-White (University of Pennsylvania) - unanimously decided for Krasnoyarsk Team.

The SFU team members are students of the Comparative Law Department (CLD): Kseniya Gulyaeva, Anastasia Kachanova, Olga Korolyova (4-year students), Igor Denisov (3-year student), Olga Sablina (2-year student).

The Team coaches are:

• Tatyana Pronina, graduate of the CLD and CEU (International Business Law, LLM), former 2010 Jessup team member, assistant of the CLD.

• Valentina Tereshkova, candidate of science, associate professor of the International law department

In March, six best Russian Teams – Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk), Higher School of Economics (Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod), Moscow State University, Moscow State University of International Relations (MGIMO),  Russian Academy of Justice (Moscow), Urals State Law Academy (Yekaterinburg) – are competing in the White & Case Jessup World Cup in Washington, DC.

Good luck to SFU Team in the International Round in Washington!

Law Institute Director I.V. Shishko