ICC Judge Joyce Aluoch (centre), ICC Legal Officer Marie Mathiaud (left) and Special Assistant to th
Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University is the winner of the ICC Moot Court Competition – Russian version. The final round was held today, 1 June 2012, in Courtroom I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The winning team is composed of (from left to right in above photo): Mr Aleksei Petrenko, Mr Mark Kulezin, Mr Nikita Borisenko, Ms Yana Maria Minina and Ms Irina Olunina. Taras Shevcneko National University of Kyiv and the Higher School of Economics - Nizhny Novgorod won, respectively, the second and third places. The award for the Best Speaker went to Mr Mark Kulezin Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University.
The teams competed before ICC Judge Joyce Aluoch (presiding), ICC Legal Officer Marie Mathiaud and Special Assistant to the ICC President Philipp Ambach on a fictitious case, presenting oral arguments during a confirmation of charges hearing in the roles of Prosecution, Defence and the Legal representative for victims. The final round of the ICC Trial Competition in Russian was also web streamed live on the Court’s official website.
Following the decision rendered by the Chamber on the winners of the competition, the ICC hosted an awards ceremony for the winners and participants. Judge Aluoch, Ms Mathiaud, Mr Ambach and Mr Alexander Khodakov, Special Adviser to the Registrar on External Relations, delivered awards to the best teams and top speaker.
This year, 21 universities representing four countries – the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Armenia, and Belarus – participated in the competition, where students put to the test their knowledge of the applicable law and jurisprudence of the ICC. The three top teams came to The Hague for a five-day study visit before the final competition at the ICC. During their time in The Hague, the students visited four other international courts and criminal tribunals: the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). The study visit offers to the students a unique opportunity to come together in an exciting setting and to meet with eminent personalities of the international law scene.
This version of the ICC Trial Competition is organised by Professor Gennady Esakov of O.E. Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy with the institutional support of the ICC and direct support from several institutions and organisations.
The Court is also supporting three other language versions of the ICC Trial Competition this year and hosting their finals in the ICC courtroom: English (27 April), Chinese (1 June) and Spanish (22 June). It is envisaged that, in the medium and long term, the ICC Trial Competition will also be expanded, in cooperation with others, to the other official languages of the Court: French and Arabic.
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