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High achievements of the SFU Law Institute’s team on international round of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition
The SFU’s team took 24th place and reached 1/16 finals of the international phase of the competition for the first time in the Law Institute’s history. (http://www.ilsa.org/jessup/jessup14/2014%20Advanced%20Rounds.pdf). Our team defeated teams from the United States (State University of New York at Buffalo), Turkey (Galatasaray University) and Brazil (Federal University of Santa Maria), but in 1/16 finals lost to the Slovenian team (University of Ljubljana), which took the 9th place in the overall ranking after the qualifying rounds. Thus, the Law Institute of the SFU confirmed that it deserves to be among the best law schools in the world. The Memorial (written positions of the parties in the case) of our team were highly appreciated by the judges of the competition and awarded 14th place in the global rankings (http://www.ilsa.org/jessup/jessup14/2014%20Top%2030%20Team% 20Memorial% 20Rankings.pdf). The SFU team memorials were rated even higher than works of teams from the UK (Oxford University) and the USA (University of Denver and Columbia University). Moreover, an assessment of our team’s memorials was higher than rating of written work of this year winner – the team from Australia (University of Queensland). It should be noted that there were only three Russian teams among the top 32 teams qualified to participate in the last rounds of the competition in Washington: the Moscow State University team (17th place), the Siberian Federal University team (24th place) and Moscow State Institute of International Relations (31th). This year, the team of the Law Institute of the SFU was represented by the students of the Comparative Law Department – Kseniya Gulyaeva, Anastasiya Kachanova, Olga Koroleva (5th year) and Irina Balaganskaya (3rd year). Gulyaeva Kseniya and Olga Koroleva entered the list of the hundred best oralists (respectively nineteenth and sixty-second places) (http://www.ilsa.org/jessup/jessup14/2014%20Top%20100%20Individual%20Oralists.pdf). Considering that competition is conducted in English, these results are amazing (for the majority of participants English is a native language). Our team coaches were Tatyana Pronina (SFU Law Institute and CEU graduate (International Commercial Law (LLM)), Assistant of the Chair of Foreign and Comparative Law) and Alexey Bulatov (SFU Law Institute and CEU graduate (Human Rights (LLM)). It should be also mentioned that organizers of the competition have chosen Law Institute team (the only team from Russia) for participating in filming of a documentary about a Jessup. There are 12 teams from around the world that are taking part in this project. An American crew visited Krasnoyarsk in autumn 2013. They were filming team during the national rounds in Moscow and international rounds in Washington in 2014. It is planned to release the full film in spring of 2015. This film will be used in future for the dissemination of the information about the competition in the international legal community, and our team will be protagonist of this film! The team expressed its sincere gratitude to the administration of the Legal Institute of the SFU and their sponsors:
Thanks to their support our students were able to travel to Moscow in order to take part in Russian rounds (firm Pepeljaev groups) and to Washington to participate in international rounds (firm Clifford Chance and White & Case). Law Institute of the SFU congratulates the participants and coaches of our team with such outstanding achievements and wishes them future success in their professional work! |
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