The team of the Law Institute of SFU represented Russia on the international rounds of competition named after Philip Jessup

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Last Updated on Monday, 06 May 2013 04:00

In February 2013 the Law Institute’s team of SFU became the winner of the Russian stage Competition named after Philip Jessup, beating teams of  National Research Institute "Higher School of Economics", Moscow State University, Moscow State Law Academy and team of  Russian Academy of Justice. Being the national champions, the students of the Law Institute of SFU got a chance to represent Russia at the international stage of the competition, which was held in Washington DC (USA) from 31 March to 6 April 2013.

Our team suitably performed  in the international rounds, defeating teams from Australia (University of Western Australia, 2nd place at the national championships Australia), Germany (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany's national champions) and Luxembourg (Université de Luxembourg), losing the team from Sri Lanka (University of Colombo). Despite the fact that students of the Law Institute of SFU had brilliant legal arguments, their presentation skills, unfortunately, were not so potent. As a result, the team of the Law Institute of SFU took the 37th place in the global rankings. All in all in the year of 2013 in Competition named after F. Jessup took part more than 500 teams around the world. The 126 best won the right to represent their countries at the international rounds in Washington.

The team of the Law Institute of SFU was presented by students of  Comparative Law Department Ksenia Gulyaeva, Anastasia Kachanova, Olga Koroleva, (4th year), Igor Denisov (3rd year).

Coaches of our team were Tatyana Pronina (graduate of the Law Institute of SFU and CEU (International Commercial Law (LLM)), the assistant of the chamber of foreign and comparative law) and Valentina Tereshkova (candidate of law, assistant professor of the international law).