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Second place in the final of the International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition
On May 27th, 2016 Law Institute of Siberian Federal University won the second place in the final of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Moot Court Competition, Russian version, held in Courtroom II of the new ICC premises in The Hague (the Netherlands). Lomonosov Moscow State University became the first and Kazan Federal University came in third. Members of the winning team were Anastasia Evtyugina, Daria Kazachkova, Anastasia Mikhaleva and team coach PhD, Valentina V. Tereshkova. On the judge’s bench were ICC Judge Bertram Schmitt, presiding, Special Assistant to the ICC President Philipp Ambach and Legal Officer Rebecca Young. The Law Faculty of National Research University Higher School of Economics with institutional support from the ICC organized this version of the ICC Moot Court Competition. This year, 13 teams and 70 students representing two countries (Russia (12) and Belarus (1)) took part in the preliminary stage of the competition, which was completed in early May. Three of the teams were from Moscow, five teams were new to the competition this year, and the geographical scope of competing teams spanned across several thousand kilometers from west-Kaliningrad to east-Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. Semi-final judges represented 11 countries: Russia, UK, Netherlands, Ukraine, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Germany, Switzerland and Kazakhstan. Judges were university professors, legal practitioners, former competitors who now work in the sphere of either international or criminal law. Former ICC Judge Anita Ušacka also took part in the competition as a judge. The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Russian Federation supported the competition and the winning teams in their trip to The Hague. The Ambassador of the Kingdom of Netherlands, H.E. Ron J.P.M. van Dartel visited the semi-final rounds. At the closing ceremony he addressed the participants and delivered prizes to the winners. Translated by Anastasia Yevtugina, Daria Kazachkova, Anastasia Mikhaleva |
Еducational program "Jurisprudence" (bachelor) of Law Institute is recognized as one of the best programs in the project "The best educational programs of innovative Russia" in 2010-2016.
