"No feature of the moots, among all its wonderful features, is more striking than that it is a community. It is a community made up of participants from different countries, cultures, languages, and value systems. They have different roles - the student mooters themselves with different levels of mooting experience and different obstacles to overcome, judges, coaches, supporters, volunteers, and the truly remarkable organizing team that is as gloriously diverse as all the other elements of the competition. And as I’ll try to explain later, it is also community across time, over the years since it was founded.
What explains the commonalities that bind us? After all, the event consists of 60 or so teams from some 45 countries that devote a good part of nine months honing their arguments, written and oral, to compete against opponents and before judges they’ve never met. Yet there are strong commonalities as well: a desire to learn, to be the best and to lead and make meaningful contribution in their future roles. As important, they share a zest for new experiences and challenges, some confidently and some with more bravery than self-assurance." Jon Blake - March 2022
The Bonavero Institute seeks to enrich the human rights experience of Oxford students, and to assist them to develop careers in the broad field of human rights. Its “Gateways to Human Rights Research and Practice” initiative aims to deepen student engagement with the institute’s research projects and to provide insights into human rights practice. Several programmes form part of this initiative: Non-credit Courses on Human Rights Strategy, Research Training Programmes, various opportunities for Human Rights Mooting, the Collaborative Legal Aid Clinic at HMP Huntercombe and our Summer Fellowship Programme.
The Price Media Law Moot Court Programme aims to foster and cultivate interest in freedom of expression issues and the role of the media and information technologies in societies around the world. It was established by the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy at the University of Oxford in 2008.
The annual Price Moot Court Competition challenges students to engage in comparative research of legal standards at the national, regional and international levels, and to develop their arguments (in written and oral forms) on cutting-edge questions in media and ICT law. The Competition is currently comprised of seven Regional Rounds (South Asia, Asia-Pacific, South East Europe, North East Europe, Middle East, Africa and Americas) and the selective International Rounds held in Oxford, gathering participants from countries as diverse as Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Lebanon, the Philippines, Serbia, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, the UK and the USA.
The Price Media Law Moot Court Programme is more than a moot court!
