International Rounds 2019
The 2019 International Rounds of the 12thannual Price Media Law Moot Court Competition took place in Oxford, England on 8 – 12 April 2019.
This year we had 36 teams representing a diverse range of countries (including Albania, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, France, Hungary, Iran, Latvia, Lebanon, Palestine, Philippines, South Africa, USA, Zimbabwe etc) argued a complex Competition Case on free speech, privacy and the regulation of social media before distinguished benches of lawyers, academics and practitioners from the media industry serving as judges. The quality of arguments was extraordinary. Competition culminated with the team from the University of Philippines prevailing over the team from National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in the final. The Final Bench comprised of former and sitting judges from international and domestic courts : Nicolas Bratza (European Court of Human Rights, retired), Nona Tsotsoria (European Court of Human Rights, 2008 – 2018), Peter Sam Shivute (Supreme Court of Namibia), Kate O’Regan (South African Constitutional Court 1994-2009).
During the week we have organised following events around the Moot. Prof Kate O’Regan and Dr Steafan Theil kicked off on Day 1 with panel discussion: Hate Speech Online: What is being done about it?; followed by Sarah Phillimore and a mooting masterclass for the participants; Max Slackman from Instagram hosted a Q&A session; and Monroe E. Price gave 1stAnnual Eric Barendt Law Lecture: the mistery of regulationg social media. There were two additional special events that allowed participants to speak with the author of the Case and Bench Memorandum Gehan Gunatilleke and well as have an informal discussion with the Final Bench judges.
As always we publish the Brochure for the International Rounds 2019 as a special edition, with all relevant information from last year, that can be found here: International Rounds 2019 Brochure and more photos are available on our Facebook page here.
More information on these events is available via the following link Final Competition Schedule 2019
FINAL RESULTS
OVERALL WINNER
University of Philippines, Philippines
OVERALL WINNER RUNNER-UP
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
SEMI-FINALISTS (in alphabetical order)
- Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, Canada
- Singapore Management University, Singapore
QUARTER-FINALISTS (in alphabetical order)
- Gujarat National Law University, India
- Lyceum of the Philippines University, Philippines
- University of Malaya, Malaysia
- University of Oxford, UK
OCTO-FINALISTS (in alphabetical order)
- The British University, Egypt
- Brooklyn Law School, USA
- Belarusian State University, Belarus
- City, University of London, UK
- Eötvös Loránd University, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary
- Law Society of Ireland, Ireland
- National Law University, Odisha, India
- National University of Singapore, Singapore
BEST ORALIST
- Mr Mark Xavier Libardo, University of Philippines
BEST ORALIST RUNNER-UP
- Mr Rushal Shah, Gujarat National Law University
TOP ORALISTS
3rd Ms Julienne Angela del Rosario, University of Philippines
4th Mr Ahmed Shaeir, British University
5th Ms Tammie Khor, National University of Singapore
6th Mr Omar Hassan Borhamy Alfadaly, Cairo University
7th Mr Takudzwa Dende, University of Johannesburg
8th Ms Claire Kai Xin Neoh, Singapore Management University
9th Mr Luca Montag, University of Edinburgh
10th Mr Attila Tatár, Eötvös Loránd University, ELTE, Budapest
BEST ORALIST IN THE FINAL
Ms Julienne Angela del Rosario, University of Philippines
BEST MEMORIALS
University of Malaya, Malaysia
BEST MEMORIALS RUNNERS-UP
National University of Singapore, Singapore
JONATHAN BLAKE SPIRIT OF THE COMPETITION AWARD
- University of Paris Descartes, France
- Alexander Willingham, Price Moot Alumni
OTHER PARTICIPATING TEAMS (in alphabetical order)
- Birzeit University, Palestine
- Cairo University, Egypt
- Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal
- National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, USA
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
- The University of Edinburgh, UK
- University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law, Romania
- University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
- University of International Business and Economics, China
- University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- University of Latvia, Latvia
- University of Paris Descartes, France
- University of Tehran, Iran
- University of Tirana, Albania
- University of Witwatersrand, South Africa