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July 2014
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The team comprised four law students: André Cole, Arlene Lillian Chochan, David Prince Richi Edmund and Shane Justin Pantin, coached by Alicia Elias-Roberts, Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and International Law Moot Course Coordinator. The White and Case International Rounds of the competition were held in Washington and the St. Augustine team competed against four other teams from Uganda (Law Development Centre), Argentina (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Romania (University of Bucharest) and Hong Kong (City University of Hong Kong). The Jessup competition is the world’s largest moot court competition, with participants from over 550 law schools in more than 80 countries. The competition is a simulation of a fictional dispute between countries before the International Court of Justice, the judicial organ of the United Nations. One team is allowed to participate from every eligible school. Teams prepare oral and written pleadings arguing both the applicant and respondent positions of the case. |
A team from the Faculty of Law of The UWI St. Augustine campus won the ‘Best New Team’ prize at the 55th Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Competition held in Washington DC in April 2014. This award is given to a team who joined the competition within the past three years and obtained the highest marks in the oral and memorial writing sections combined. This year there were 126 teams at the international rounds and about 20 ‘new teams’ overall. This is the second year that a team from the Faculty participated in the Jessup competition.