Meet the Price Moot Court Competition International Round Judges 2025

Gill Phillips is an editorial legal consultant for the Guardian. She was the Guardian’s director of editorial legal services between 2009 and 2023, during which time she advised on a number of major investigations such as Wikileaks, Edward Snowden, phone hacking, the Panama, Paradise and Pandora Papers and the Uber Files. Before joining the Guardian, Gill was an in-house lawyer at the BBC and Times Newspapers covering a range of pre- and post-publication legal matters such as defamation, privacy, contempt and open justice issues, as well as copyright and data protection. She also sits as a part-time Employment Tribunal judge. 

Kate O'Regan is the inaugural Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and a former judge of the South African Constitutional Court (1994 – 2009). In the mid-1980s she practiced as a lawyer in Johannesburg in a variety of fields, but especially labour law and land law, representing many of the emerging trade unions and their members, as well as communities threatened with eviction under apartheid land laws.  In 1990, she joined the Faculty of Law at UCT where she taught a range of courses including race, gender and the law, labour law, civil procedure and evidence. Since her fifteen-year term at the South African Constitutional Court ended in 2009,  she has amongst other things served as an ad hoc judge of the Supreme Court of Namibia (from 2010 - 2016), Chairperson of the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry into allegations of police inefficiency and a breakdown in trust between the police and the community of Khayelitsha (2012 – 2014), and as a member of the boards or advisory bodies of many NGOs working in the fields of democracy, the rule of law, human rights and equality.

Paolo Cavaliere is Senior Lecturer in digital media and IT law at the University of Edinburgh Law School, researching and teaching on freedom of expression, media law and digital rights. He is also co-director of the Scottish Research Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law (SCRIPT) and a research associate at the University of Oxford’s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy. Further to his academic activity, Paolo Cavaliere was admitted to the Bar in Italy (non-practising) and regularly provides expertise on telecommunications and media law to a range of NGOs and international organisations, including the Council of Europe and the OSCE among others. 

Richard Danbury is an academic lawyer, a journalist and a former practicing barrister. He directs the MA in investigative journalism at City, University of London, is the BBC’s advanced law trainer, and is on the Scott Trust Review Panel, the body that oversees content-related complaints about The Guardian newspaper.

His undergraduate degree is in philosophy from Cambridge University, and his doctorate in media law is from Oxford University. He then undertook post-doctoral research back at Cambridge into copyright and news. He continues to research in the area of international and comparative media law and freedom of speech law. He is an expert at Columbia University’s Global Freedom of Expression project, has consulted for the Council of Europe and the International Senior Lawyers’ Projects in relation to teaching Freedom of Expression law in the Balkans, and to the OSCE and the East-West Management Institute in relation to the teaching of journalism.

Abdelmageed Samy is Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Egyptian Public Prosecution and former Corporate & IP Lawyer, with expertise in criminal law, international law, human rights law, commercial law, and intellectual property law. Holding an LL.B. from Ain Shams University, Abdelmageed is currently pursuing an LL.M. in Intellectual Property at Ain Shams University. 

Adam Kemp has worked for over 30 years in broadcast television. At the BBC from 1994, he helped to set up the first Independent Commissioning Unit, bringing outside talent to the Corporation.  He was both deputy to the Controller of BBC1 and a senior Factual Genre Commissioning Editor, choosing programming for all 4 networks in Current Affairs,  History, Religion & Ethics, Business, Science and Music & Arts.  Executive producing over 150 shows, he won two Emmys for Walking With Dinosaurs specials and won a reputation for innovation and risk with projects like Maestro, the first Planet Earth, Last Tommy, the drama Hawking and the maverick Two Fat Ladies.  A post graduate Oxford Historian, he began his career in a Think Tank specialising in the Middle East and Energy before producing investigative documentaries for BBC and C4. . He now runs Aenon Ltd, a boutique independent production company based in Bristol creating scripted drama projects like Our Zoo as well as acclaimed drama-documentaries like Churchill's First World War and Gunpowder 5/11.  Adam was thrice elected to the TV Committee and Council of BAFTA.

Ahmed Dayhoum is Professor of Philosophy and History of Law, Faculty of Law, Ain Shams University . Vice Dean of Faculty of Law, Ain Shams University. Professor at Faculty of Law, German University and Founding partner of Al-Feshawy El-Shazly & Partners Law Firm . 

Ahmed F. Khalifa is an Assistant Professor of Law at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Since 2014, he serves as the Deputy Secretary General of the International Association of Penal Law. Dr. Khalifa is the coordinator of the Middle East Rounds of Oxford Price Media Moot Court Competition.

Dr. Khalifa is an expert consultant with the ICRC in the MENA region, and he serves also as a consultant with several international organizations including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in the MENA Region and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). Previously, he served as a full time in-house legal consultant with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), Torino, Italy.

Dr. Khalifa obtained his Phd in International Criminal Law from Poitiers University in France after finishing his LLM focusing on International Human Rights Law from Temple University, USA. His areas of research covers international criminal law, international humanitarian law and International human rights law.

Email: ahmed_f_khalifa@law.asu.edu.eg

Linked in: Ahmed F. Khalifa

Akash Sachdeva is an IP litigator at Gunnercooke. 

Akram AbdelMonem was born and raised in Egypt, where he obtained his LL.B. and LL.M. from Mansoura University. He served as a Teaching Assistant of Criminal Law for four years before earning his MA in International Human Rights Law from The American University in Cairo in 2023. Alongside his academic pursuits, Akram has built wide professional experience, first as a prosecutor at the Egyptian Public Prosecution and later as a judge within the Egyptian Judiciary. In October 2024, he joined the Graduate School of Law at the University of Hamburg, Germany (AMBSL) as a PhD researcher. His research critically examines the “Fragmentation of International Law,” challenging the uncritical adoption of “regime interaction,” pluralism, and constitutionalization discourses within the Post-WWII international legal order. 

Alex Willingham is a practising in-house Commercial Lawyer. He holds an undergraduate LLB degree and an LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law from Queen Mary, University of London which focused heavily on Media and Privacy Law. He was a member of the Queen Mary, University of London, Semi-Finalist team at the Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition International Rounds ten years ago and has been a Judge in the competition since then. 

Dr Ann Kristin Glenster is a legal expert on data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and data and AI governance. Ann Kristin is also an academic expert on epistemic rights, regulation of deceptive design and the infosphere, and privacy in neurotechnologies.

She is the Executive Director of the Glenlead Centre, a consortium of independent researchers who aim to bridge the gap between high-quality research and public policy.  She is also about to take up the role as the Deputy Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge.

Ann Kristin is a Fellow of Technology and Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School; and Democracy; and an affiliate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge. She was formerly the Senior Policy Advisor on Technology Governance and Law at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy. She has also been Strategic Legal Consultant to the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE), based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Ann Kristin holds a PhD in law from the University of Cambridge and conducted doctoral research at the Harvard Law School. She has taught at the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Imperial, LSE, Brown University, and Harvard University.

Arthur Pilão Ramos holds degrees in Law and Economics from the University of São Paulo (USP). He currently serves as a law clerk in the Court of Justice of São Paulo (TJSP). Besides having taken part in the Price Moot as a regular team member, Arthur has also served as a coach for the USP team competing in the Price Moot Court and in other moot court competitions. 

Bernardo Fico holds a Bachelor's degree in Law from the University of São Paulo and a Master's in International Human Rights Law from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (USA). He is a specialist in Digital Law (UERJ), certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), and a researcher in technology and human rights. His academic background includes advanced courses in Data Protection (FGV-SP), Digital Law Practice (FGV-SP), Media Policy (Annenberg-Oxford), International Law (OAS), Human Rights (Stanford, Luzern), and LGBTQIAP+ Rights (Clacso). Beyond his law and technology expertise, Bernardo has extensive international experience in human rights and diversity. He has worked at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), and the Bluhm Legal Clinic, focusing on strategic litigation in international fora. Active in moot court competitions, Bernardo has competed as an oralist, coached, judged, and organized events. He won the 20th Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition and later coached a semifinalist team for the same competition. In the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition, he coached the 2020 Americas Rounds winning team. He also led the 2022 runner-up team in the Helsinki Information Moot Court Competition and coached the 2021 winning team of the Brazilian Philip Jessup Rounds. As a judge, he has participated in the Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court and the Price Media Law Moot Court. In 2024, he served as Institutional Coordinator for the Brazilian National Rounds of the Jessup Competition and founded the Competition on Arbitration and Digital Law (CoDiTech) (2023–present). 

Carol Cheng is an English law barrister practising at Pump Court Chambers with a mixed civil law practice. She is also a qualified solicitor in England and Wales, Hong Kong and the Republic of Ireland. Prior to joining the Bar of England and Wales, she practised as a commercial law solicitor at Linklaters and was a High Court Judicial Assistant. She remains regularly involved in various mooting competitions, both as a coach and judge. 

Claire de Than is an award-winning senior legal academic of more than 25 years’ standing, and Chair of the Jersey Law Commission, currently working on laws related to criminal appeals. 

She has over 85 legal publications in total, including more than 15 books, chapters in leading legal monographs and edited collections, and articles in a variety of leading national and international journals, including the Modern Law Review and the Criminal Law Review. Her publications and reform proposals have been adopted by governments, regulators and professions around the world. She is also regularly consulted on public and strategic policy. She is the Chair of several charities.  

Clive Baldwin is Senior Legal Advisor, Human Rights Watch, since 2007. Previously worked at Bindman and Partners, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and Minority Rights Group International.  Author of "That's Where the Nightmare Started: UK and US Forced Displacement of the Chagossians and Ongoing Colonial Crimes", Human Rights Watch, 2023.

Diana Kostina is an experienced tech regulatory professional working as a solicitor at the UK's data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office. Previously, she worked in private practice in London and at an NGO specializing in European Court of Human Rights. 

Diana Pysarenko is a Corporate Associate at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, Masters of Laws at LSE, Chevening Scholar. 

Eliza Bechtold is the Programmes Manager and a Research Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights.  She researches in the area of freedom of expression. 

Fatemeh Dabestani After earning her Bachelor's degree in Law, Fatemeh discovered a profound passion for human rights. This deep-seated interest inspired her to pursue a Master's degree in Human Rights at the Sorbonne University, where she deepened her understanding of justice, equality, and the protection of fundamental freedoms. Today, Fatemeh is honored to channel this knowledge and dedication into her role as a paralegal at the law firm of Roman SANGUE, where she contributes to work that aligns with the principles she hold dear. 

Gavin Phillipson has been a Professor of Law since January 2007, and at the University of Bristol since 2019 (previously at Durham University). His research and teaching interests cover aspects of UK and comparative constitutional law and practice, and European, UK and comparative human rights law on Bill of Rights design, the ‘horizontal effect’ of constitutional rights, free speech, public protest, privacy and anti-terrorism and the interface of these fields with constitutional and political theory. He has published widely in these fields in top law journals in the UK, Australia, Canada and the US and is co-author of the leading text Media Freedom under the UK Human Rights Act (2006, OUP), with Helen Fenwick. His work has been cited in judgments by the High Court, Court of Appeal, former House of Lords and Supreme Court in the UK, by the Canadian Supreme Court, New Zealand Court of Appeal and by the Media Lawyer’s Association in their intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in the Hannover v Germany (no 2) (2012). 

Gemma McNeill Walsh is a barrister at 5RB, where she specialises in defamation, privacy, harassment, freedom of information, reporting restrictions, and data protection. She also has an extensive pre-publication practice and currently provides pre-publication advice to The Sun, The Daily Mail, and HarperCollins. 

Georgia Delgado-Fitzgerald is an international lawyer specializing in international humanitarian law and international criminal law. She has worked on war crimes prosecutions in conflict-affected areas. Currently, she serves as an International Lawyer at Global Rights Compliance based in Ukraine, where she supports war crimes investigations. She was previously a Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court, contributing to legal analyses and evidence review, and a legal consultant on the Seychelles Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission, working on human rights violations. 

Gill Phillips is an editorial legal consultant for the Guardian. She was the Guardian’s director of editorial legal services between 2009 and 2023, during which time she advised on a number of major investigations such as Wikileaks, Edward Snowden, phone hacking, the Panama, Paradise and Pandora Papers and the Uber Files. Before joining the Guardian, Gill was an in-house lawyer at the BBC and Times Newspapers covering a range of pre- and post-publication legal matters such as defamation, privacy, contempt and open justice issues, as well as copyright and data protection. She also sits as a part-time Employment Tribunal judge. 

Grace Cheng is an English barrister and qualified Hong Kong solicitor. She is a registered foreign lawyer at the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) and has rights of audience before the DIFC Courts (Dubai) and the AIFC Court (Kazakhstan). In addition to speaking fluent English, Cantonese and Mandarin, Grace has a working knowledge of French and Spanish. She is recognised as a leading junior in Sport Law by Legal 500, and is included in Lexology Index as a Future Leader in Arbitration. In addition to her practice as counsel, Grace is a sought after neutral and has received over 30 appointments as arbitrator, adjudicator, expert, as well as being a member of various judicial panels, independent tribunals, disciplinary and regulatory commissions. She regularly deals with disputes in a diverse range of areas and involving a range of languages and governing laws, including the laws of England and Wales, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai and Malaysia. She has acted as arbitrator in matters administered under the rules of various institutions including the AIAC, DIAC, HKIAC, SIAC as well as ad hoc arbitrations and those under UNCITRAL rules. She is a member of the Bar Council’s ADR Panel. Grace has taught law at the University of Oxford, King’s College London, the University of Warwick, the National Taiwan University and the National Chengchi University. She is a member of the AIAC Academy Tutors Panel and the AIFC Academy of Law Academic Pool. 

Hashim Mude is an in-house media content lawyer at the BBC. Hashim provides pre-publication advice to journalists and programme makers on defamation, privacy, data protection and contempt. 

Hawley Johnson is the Associate Director of Columbia Global Freedom of Expression. Since 2014 she has managed the development of the Global Case Law Database which hosts analyses of seminal freedom of expression court rulings from more than 130 countries.  Hawley has over twenty years of experience in international media development both academically and professionally, with a focus on Eastern Europe. From 2013-2014 she worked with the award-winning Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project to launch the Investigative Dashboard (ID), a joint effort with Google Ideas offering specialized databases and research tools for journalists in emerging democracies.  Previously, as the Associate Director of the Media and Conflict Resolution Program at New York University, she oversaw the implementation of over eight US government sponsored media development programs in eleven countries. In 2012, she completed her Ph.D. in Communications at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her dissertation – a study of the evolution of media development policies in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia – was grounded in extensive field research in the region. She has a M.A. from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a B.A. in International Affairs from the School of International Service at American University. 

Ian Burton is the Head of the International Litigation Team at Google. He is an English solicitor, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Prior to joining Google in 2011, he worked in the Litigation Team at Nokia, and in the IP Litigation Department of London-based law firm, Bristows 

Inioluwa Longe is a lawyer and Doctoral Researcher in Social Policy at Swansea University, UK, specialising in Gender, Health, and Technology policy. Passionate about digital education and using technology to combat violence against women and girls, she excels in policy development, legislative processes, and stakeholder collaboration. She is a Policy and Research Officer at the Women’s Equality Network, supporting policy development and research on gender equality. She has contributed to academic projects on online safety and digital rights and authored a chapter in the African Book on Women and Cyberrights in Africa on digital technologies and intimate partner violence in Nigeria. 

Isabella Boag Taylor is a media lawyer specialising in defamation, privacy, freedom of expression, reporting restrictions and intellectual property issues - both pre- and post-publication - working exclusively with defendant media organisations. Isabella's background is in media litigation, where she worked closely with various publishers, broadcasters, databases, and journalists on a variety of litigation and advisory matters across content liability. In her role as Content Legal Counsel at Conde Nast, Isabella works closely with the editorial teams to protect, and advise on the risk of, the journalism and editorial content published across all 20 of Conde Nast's brands. 

Jacquie Hughes has over 20 years of experience in establishing, operationalizing, and managing Public and Private Sector entities in Europe and EMEA. She is known for developing the underpinning policy, legal, and regulatory frameworks, and for running programs and businesses across Media, Entertainment and Culture, Gaming, Health, and emerging tech.
She is renowned for embedding international best practices in these sectors and managing complex, high-stakes multinational environments with multiple internal and external stakeholders, while overseeing every aspect of the programs. Jacquie Hughes has served multiple times as a Specialist Adviser to the UK Government and has authored numerous independent industry and political think-tank reports. She is highly principled, comfortable with complexity, and possesses a finely tuned political and cultural radar. She is independent, objective, and an accomplished public speaker.

Jana Zaujecova  is currently General Counsel at Munich Re, Great Lakes with previous private practice experience across different areas of law with focus on dispute resolution in complex cases involving multiple experts in multiple jurisdicti

Jesse graduated from the University of London in 1994 with a BA in Law and Anthropology. He subsequently obtained an LLM and a PhD from University of London in 1995 and 2005 respectively. Before joining City St George's, University of London, he taught at the London School of Economics and University College London. He has

published in a number of leading journals, including the Cambridge Law Journal, the Law Quarterly Review, the Modern Law Review, and the Criminal Law Review. His research and teaching interests include criminal law and tort law. 

Julia Haas is an international law and human rights expert who has focused on international relations, the intersection of technology, security and human rights, and the prevention of marginalization. As Adviser to the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, she leads the work on media & big tech and enabling healthy online information spaces. Julia focuses on policy research and development in the field of internet governance and digital participation, with a particular emphasis on the impact of artificial intelligence on freedom of expression, digital and legal safety of journalists, gender and online pluralism. Previously, she worked as legal officer and human rights adviser at the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Julia sits on the advisory board for the Vienna Forum for Democracy and Human Rights, holds a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Vienna, an Information and Media Law LLM and is a PhD candidate on the impact of digital innovations on freedom of the media. She received awards for her academic work and gender equality efforts. Since 2025, she is the Austrian Rockefeller Fellow for the Trilateral Commission.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/TheJuliaHaas

Juliana Mota is a Digital Policy Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Socio-Legal Studies (University of Oxford) and DPhil candidate in Law. Juliana holds an LL.M degree from the University of Cambridge and an LL.B. degree from the University of São Paulo. She has previously participated in the Price Media Law as an oralist, judge, and organizer. 

Julianne del Rosario is a corporate lawyer specializing in energy and infrastructure project financing, mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, and data privacy. I am currently a senior associate at Picazo Buyco Tan Fider & Santos, where I advise clients on corporate and financial transactions, contract negotiations, and data privacy matters. I also am a legal consultant for the district representative of Makati City, Romulo Pena, at the Philippine House of Representatives, contributing to legislative drafting and policy advisement. 

Justin Winchester is a DPhil candidate at Oxford specialising in equality and constitutional law. He previously worked in strategic litigation at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa. He won the Kate O’Regan Moot 2020, was a semi-finalist for the ELSA Helga Pedersen Human Rights Moot 2022/23, and was a judge for the Blackstone Human Rights Moot 2023.”

Kenneth Lennox Sseguya is Manager Legal Compliance & Enforcement at the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) in Uganda. The UCC is the Government body responsible for the regulation, control, supervision & licensing of all communication platforms (TV, radio, courier, telecom & internet service providers, etc.) in Uganda. He holds a Masters’ Degree in Law (Commercial & Corporate) from the London School or Economics & Political Science in the UK (2017), and a Bachelors’ Degree in Law (first class) from Makerere University, Kampala-Uganda. Kenneth has attended several professional courses from the International Law Institute - Washington DC, University of Florida-USA, and at the Florence School of Regulation in Italy. He has previously competed at several Moots, including the All Africa Human Rights Moot Court Competition at the University of Western Cape in South Africa (2013), and at the Price Media Law Moot Court competition (both at the regional rounds in Nairobi-Kenya and international rounds at the University of Oxford in 2014). Kenneth has also participated as Judge at several Moot competitions. 

Kerry Phillip is a fractional General Counsel. Kerry started out at top city firm Linklaters in London and Paris as an M&A lawyer, moving to BT after 6 years. Since then she has been in senior roles in telecoms companies - BT, Telefonica, Azzurri Communications and most recently Vodafone where she was General Counsel for Vodafone Business for 7 years. Kerry lives in the fabulous city of Oxford and is keen to support law and legal events. 

Kingsley Abbott is an experienced international criminal and human rights lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience in international non-governmental organisations, the United Nations, academic institutions and domestic legal practice.

He is currently Professor of Practice and Director of the Institute for Commonwealth Studies at the University of London.  The Institute sits at the crossroads of research, policy, human rights practice and international relations, bringing people together to develop effective, evidence-based policy solutions to the challenges facing the modern Commonwealth. 

Prior to that, he spent over nine years in Thailand where he served the International Commission of Jurists as the Director of Global Accountability and International Justice. During this time, he developed and led numerous human rights and rule of law initiatives in Asia and around the world. He has also worked as a Senior Legal Adviser at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia and as Trial Counsel in the Office of the Prosecutor at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the Hague. He started his career in his home country of Aotearoa New Zealand, where he mainly practised as a criminal barrister under a leading King’s Counsel, appearing in the District Court, High Court and Court of Appeal on numerous matters for both the defence and prosecution.

He was admitted to the New Zealand Bar in 2002 and holds a conjoint degree in law and philosophy from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Lara Ibrahim is a DPhil in Law candidate at the University of Oxford, researching international human rights law and international environmental law obligations in the context of climate change. She is the coach for the University of Oxford's team in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and a Teaching Assistant in Public International Law. Last year, she was a Judicial Fellow at the International Court of Justice. 

Lara Oyesanya is an experienced financial services chief legal officer, general counsel and company secretary with international experience.  She’s skilled in regulatory, payments, enterprise risk management, consumer protection, SME law, offshore, employee relations (contentious and non-contentious), corporate transactions and commercial banking. An Independent Non-Executive Director at PensionBee Group plc, and a Board Trustee at Shaw Trust, a Contributing Editor, LexisNexis Encyclopaedia of Banking Law, and a Fellow of The RSA. 'Business Woman of the Year' & 'Corporate Leader', 2018 FL National Awards. Ranked in The Lawyer Hot 100 2021. BBBA Financial Services Senior Leader of the Year 2021, ‘Woman in Legal’ winner of the 2022 Women4Africa Awards. Formerly, Zepz Chief Legal Officer and Group General Counsel, Contis General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer, legal director at Klarna, senior legal counsel at Barclays and BAE Systems, a divisional counsel at RAC, a legal director at HBOS (Lloyds Banking Group) and Group Head of Legal at Lex (Lex Autolease). Former co-opted member of the University of Cambridge Council Committee (CBELA) that advised the Vice-Chancellor on benefactions. A solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and a barrister of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. A law graduate (LL.B Hons)  of the University of Lagos with an LL.M in Comparative Company Law 

Lautaro Furfaro is a senior legal researcher at Columbia Global Freedom of Expression. He is an international lawyer specializing in International Human Rights Law and International Law. He holds a Master of Laws in International Legal Studies from New York University Law School (2022), where he received the convocation award “Public Interest Law Prize” for demonstrating a clear commitment to public service and significant causes of public interest. He is a lawyer (J.D.) who graduated with honors from the University of Buenos Aires School of Law, specializing in International Law. Lautaro is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Buenos Aires School of Law, where he teaches International Human Rights Law. He is also co-Professor in the course Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights in the Master of International Human Rights Law at the University of Buenos Aires. Furthermore, he is an Assistant Professor of International Law in the foreign relations program at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He is the Academic Coordinator of the online Equality and Non-Discrimination certification at the University of Buenos Aires and the Academic Coordinator of the teams representing the University of Buenos Aires in the Inter-American Human Rights Competition at American University’s Washington College of Law."

Leo Lee is a doctoral candidate and research associate at the Chair of Civil Law with a focus on Common Law at the University of Hamburg. His research examines the commercialization of personality rights in the context of social media, with a particular emphasis on comparative legal analysis between Civil and Common law. In 2019, he participated in the international rounds for Humboldt University Berlin, and in 2020, he coached the runner-up team in the European regional rounds, also for Humboldt University. 

Lawrence McNamara is a lawyer at the Law Commission of England and Wales, where he is working on the Commission's contempt of court project. He was previously an academic in UK and Australian universities and Deputy Director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law. He has published and presented widely on a range of media law issues, including defamation and the ways that counter-terrorism laws affect the media. 

Linda Ingeborga Kronberga is an international criminal lawyer. She holds an LLM in International Criminal Law from the University of Amsterdam and Columbia Law School and has taught International Criminal Law and Public International Law at Riga Graduate School of Law. She has previously worked for the Constitutional Court of Latvia.

Luca Montag is the Research and Programmes Officer at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law. Previously, Luca worked at the Public Law Project, Leigh Day and Pogust Goodhead. He has a particular interest in administrative law, media law, and the role of automation. Luca is also an avid friend of the Price Moot. Luca participated between 2018-2021, winning a Best Oralist Prize in the 2019 Regional Rounds and the Runner-Up Best Oralist Prize in the 2021 Northern Europe Regional Rounds. 

Lucy Moorman worked for 15 years at the Bar before moving into private practice.  Lucy specialises in media law and is currently Legal Director for News Group Newspapers and Broadcasting at News UK.  Lucy worked in-house as a pre-publication legal adviser at the BBC for 8 years and was Editorial Legal Director at TalkTV and GB News.  Lucy teaches Media Law to journalism students at City St George's University.   

Luka Martin Tomazic is a Slovenian legal scholar and public intellectual. He is an Associate Professor at Alma Mater Europaea University and a full member and Vice-president of the Slovenian Academy of Legal Science. He was a visiting professor at the University of Zagreb and clerked for former UN International Law Commission president Ernest Petric. He has authored more than 100 scholarly works, focusing, among else, on freedom of expression and the rule of law. In 2023 and 2024, the IusInfo portal named him among the ten most influential Slovenian lawyers. 

Luz Orozco y Villa is a Dphil (PhD) in Law candidate at the Faculty of Law. Her research lies at the intersection of constitutional law and emerging technologies. Supervised by Professor Jacob Rowbottom, her doctoral thesis focuses on the constitutionalisation of the digital environment, specifically the case of online service providers regarding content moderation. Prior to joining Oxford, Luz worked as a career clerk for the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice and a research advisor at the Gender Equality Program of the Federal Judicial Council. She has taught International Human Rights Law, Philosophy of Human Rights, Family Law, and Gender Justice to undergraduate law students at different universities. She completed an LL.M. from Columbia Law School (New York City, NY, USA) as a Fulbright scholar and a LL.B from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico City, Mexico). Luz is currently the co-convener of the Future of Technology and Society Discussion Group. 

Lynn Wong is an experienced corporate and strategic adviser, having started her career as a solicitor at an international law firm, SJ Berwin, before moving into financial services, initially to a hedge fund manager, CQS, as its chief legal officer and also became a co-managing member of the UK investment firm.  Lynn then moved onto an investment bank, CICC, where she was Principal Counsel for Europe and also a director of the UK entity.  Lynn subsequently went on to work with early stage companies and university spin-outs.   In recent years, she has co-founded a healthcare digital telecommunications company and am presently the general counsel of an early stage organ transplant technology company, ScubaTx, as well as being a  co-founder and general counsel of another medical device start-up which is currently in stealth mode. Lynn continues to advise financial services organisations, as well as chairing the governing bodies of three schools in Oxfordshire, two of which are special schools. Apart from general counsel and executive board director positions, she has also held senior roles that have included chief operating officer, managing partner and non-executive director. 

Maksym Dvorovyi is the Head of Digital Rights for Digital Security Lab Ukraine, an NGO advocating for a human-rights-centered digital environment in Ukraine. He is involved in several working groups drafting Ukrainian media and digital rights legislative amendments, from AVMSD implementation to online political ads regulation. Most recently, he co-drafted the Law on Media, an all-encompassing piece of legislation aimed at approximating Ukrainian media legislation to the EU and CoE standards. Internationally, he advocates for pushing Big Tech to amend its approaches to content governance in times of crises, as well as for instituting a common approach to DSA implementation for the EU Candidate States. Previously, he worked as a parliamentary assistant to the Chair of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Information Policy Committee and interned in the Parliament of Canada. Maksym has also been engaged in Price Moot since the 2014/15 season, progressing from the participant to the organizer role. Since 2024, he has also been a PhD student at his alma mater, the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. 

Mariam Aboelmagd is an early career academic and lawyer, specialising in International Law. Mariam is currently reading for the LLM at the University of Cambridge, as member of Queens' College. At Cambridge, Mariam is an editor at the Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ), and is the founding President of the Egyptian Society at Cambridge, fostering cultural exchange and community engagement. Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, Mariam worked as an academic teaching assistant at BUE- which she remains a part of, and worked as a lawyer in International Law, too. Mariam was a participant in the Price Moot in 2019, in which her team made it to the onto-finals, and coached the winning team for the Middle East in 2022. 

Mariana Scolaro is a Venezuelan lawyer and specialist in International Human Rights Law. She has over ten years of experience that includes strategic litigation before both the Inter-American and Universal Human Rights Protection Systems, design and implementation of monitoring, evaluation, and learning techniques for international development programmes, and inter-disciplinary research. Mariana served as the Human Rights Officer of the British Embassy in Caracas (Venezuela) for the past two years and a half, where her main responsibilities included (i) leading on the analysis and reporting on human rights issues related to Venezuela, informing the Embassy's strategy and London's policy decisions; (ii) leading on the design and implementation of the Embassy's programming within a highly restricted civic space environment; and (iii) cultivating networks and relationships with hundreds of human rights defenders, local, regional, and international CSOs, and multilateral institutions to advance UK’s human rights objectives in Venezuela.

Mariana has built strong and diverse expertise in different areas, including: political rights (particularly in relation to civic space, political persecution and discrimination), gender and equalities (LGBT+ and women's rights), and sexual and reproductive health rights. She is also passionate about mentorship and Moot Court competitions. 

Mariana holds a Master of Laws in International Human Rights Law from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, USA (Honours Degree), and she obtained her Law Degree from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela (Cum Laude).

Mark Engelman IP barrister, Master of Gray's Inn, Affiliate St Edmunds, Visiting Professor Brunel University, Advocacy Trainer, Gray's Inn. 

Md. Monzur Rabbi is practising as an Advocate of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and is qualified as a Barrister at the Bar of England and Wales (unregistered and non-practising in UK). He is a legal professional with over fifteen (15) years of experience and his areas of expertise include international arbitration law and practice, dispute resolution including negotiation and mediation, commercial, corporate and public international law. Upon receiving a Fulbright Scholarship from the Government of USA, Mr. Rabbi pursued an LL.M. in International Arbitration at the University of Miami, Florida, USA. He has published on different aspects of law and economics and has recently contributed a country chapter in a book titled ‘Force Majeure and Hardship in the Asia-Pacific Region’ published by JURIS of USA. 

Michael Skrein is a partner in Reed Smith's Entertainment and Media Industry Group. He leads the firm’s Responsible Business programme, EMEA. His practice is mainly in litigation, but he also advises about conflict and potential conflict situations, including crisis scenarios. Michael specialises in intellectual property and media law and in public and regulatory law, both domestic and international.Michael has a very broad and notably international practice, including advertising, aviation, insurance, leisure and travel. He has considerable experience of multi-jurisdictional disputes and is well used to the role of lead lawyer for clients in countries other than England. Michael is also part of the firm’s global environmental, social and governance (ESG) practice. Michael has been consulted over the formulation of statutory tribunal codes and made submissions concerning parliamentary drafting and law reform in the UK and abroad. 

Nathalia Gonzalez is the current Alastair McBain Scholar for International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on the European Court of Human Right's protest doctrine, with particular interest in its implications for disruptive protest, and the rights of non-citizens. Other research interests include transitional justice, the evolving recognition of a universal 'right to care', and safeguarding human rights in the digital sphere. 

She was recently awarded a research fellowship by the Bonavero Institute, in partnership with the Bogotá-based NGO, Dejusticia. She is currently working on ReMeD, an EU-funded research project with the University of Oxford's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, and has been short-listed for the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences Medal at University College London (UCL).

Nazanin Sangestani is a New York attorney working as a plaintiff litigation associate. She works at one of the only feminist run law firms in the world where they regularly deal with questions of freedom of expression, free exercise of religion and their limitations. 

Nour Gabr has an LLM from Liverpool John Moores University. Nour worked as a Teaching Assistant in the German University in Cairo,  teaching Public International Law and Criminal Law. Nour has experience working in Investigations at UNICEF and is passionate about moot courts, in particular the Price Media Law Moot Court. Nour participated in the competition as a coach in 2021 and 2022, and was part of the organization committee for the Middle East Rounds of the competition in 2024. Nour sat as a judge in one of the preliminary matches in the Middle East Rounds in 2024. 

Oluwatobi Olowokure is a  lawyer with extensive international experience in fintech, data privacy, and financial regulations across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He advises on cross-border payments, compliance, and digital financial services. Previously, he was a solicitor at Banwo & Ighodalo, a Tier 1 corporate law firm, where he worked on high-value M&A transactions and intellectual property matters. A seasoned mooter, Oluwatobi was part of the winning team at the University of Oxford’s Price Media Law Moot Court (West Africa Regionals) and received the prestigious Jonathan Blake Spirit of the Competition Award at the international rounds. 

Pádraig Hughes is the Legal Director at Media Defence where he leads the work on strategic litigation in cases relating to freedom of expression and press freedom. He has represented claimants in cases before the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter American Court, the ECOWAS Court, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and other courts, both domestic and international. He also regularly drafts interventions and amicus briefs in cases before those courts. He is a member of the Bar of England and Wales. 

Peter Carter KC - called to the Bar in 1974, QC 1995. Bencher of Gray's Inn; Master of Advocacy at Gray's Inn 2005-2006. Peter regularly teaches advocacy in England and overseas. His practice is primarily in white collar fraud, together with terrorism and human trafficking, and constitutional cases from the Caribbean. He was special adviser to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Modern Slavery Bill. He recently successfully prosecuted a case of insider dealing for the Financial Conduct Authority. 

Peter Noorlander is a Dutch-born and London-based lawyer who has worked on freedom of expression cases and issues for most of his professional life. He has been involved in cases at all major international human rights courts and tribunals as well as at the highest courts in countries around the world. He co-founded and led Media Defence (www.mediadefence.org), which was awarded Columbia University’s inaugural Award for Excellence in Legal Services in 2015, and he is a former senior legal officer at ARTICLE 19. 

Prashanta Barua is a Barrister-at-Law ( Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn),   is an Advocate practising in Bangladesh Supreme Court who was educated and trained in Bangladesh and the UK.  His area of practice includes Human Rights, Media Law, corporate law, arbitration and public International Law. As mooting judge, Mr. Barua has been adjudicating Price mooting regional rounds since 2011 and International rounds since 2019. He is also a Judge in Jessup and other mooting events in Asia and Europe. Alongside court practice, Mr. Barua holds  guest professorial role in Port City University, Chattogram, Bangladesh, Lloyds Law College in India. 

Ravi Prakash  is a graduate of Columbia Law School, New York is currently practicing law as Advocate on Record at the Supreme Court of India. An alumnus of Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU), Raipur – Mr. Ravi Prakash worked as Law Clerk-cum-Research Assistant to one of the judges of the Supreme Court of India. He was awarded Chancellor’s Gold Medal for his B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) program at HNLU, Raipur. He joined the Bar in the year 2012 and since then he has represented  in various matters before Supreme Court of India and other forums. He is actively engaged in academic activities with different Law Schools in various capacity. 

Richard Henrick I. Beltran is a Partner at Villaraza & Angangco Law, a top-tier law firm based in the Philippines. He specializes in the Project Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets, and Fintech. Mr. Beltran was recognized as a leading lawyer by various legal publications. He was named by IFLR100 as a  Rising Star Partner for Banking and Finance, and by the Legal 500 as a Recommended Lawyer for Projects and Energy, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Tax, and Telecommunications, Media and Technology. He was also included in the “40 Under 40” list of lawyers by the Asian Legal Business. Mr. Beltran previously competed in the International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition, where his team reached the Semi-Finals. He also served as the Secretary-General and Vice- President for Membership of the University of the Philippines Law Debate and Moot Court Union. Mr. Beltran has served as a judge in the Southeast Asian Regional Rounds of the Stetson Annual International Moot Court Competition and the Philippine National Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition. Mr. Beltran obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the University of the Philippines and was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2014. He is currently pursuing his Masters of Laws in International Business Law at Queen Mary University of London. 

Ricki-Lee Gerbrandt is a legal scholar and lawyer working at the intersection of media freedom, freedom of expression, and the governance of digital and AI technologies. She is currently Fellow in Law & Platform Governance at the Digital Speech Law in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at University College London. She is also completing her PhD in Law at the University of Cambridge. She has an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a J.D. and B.A. (Hon) degrees from Canadian universities. Ricki-Lee is also an experienced barrister in Canada, and has represented global social media and telecommunications companies, newspapers and broadcasters, journalists, politicians and public figures in matters concerning freedom of expression and media freedom. Her recent publications concern press and journalism in the UK’s Online Safety Act and she regularly advises on anti-SLAPP legislation.

Sarah Branthwaite is a Senior Counsel in the BBC's Programme Legal Advice team.  Sarah primarily works on news and current affairs investigations, giving pre-broadcast/publication advice on a range of legal issues. 

Siyuan Chen is one of the Associate Deans at SMU School of Law. He has been involved in moot court since 2007. 

Smita Shah is an employed Barrister and Legal Advisor to the Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales and Chancellor of the High Court (Head of the Chancery Division for England and Wales) at the Judicial Office. She advises the senior leadership judiciary of England and Wales on their constitutional responsibilities. She holds a MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London (UK) and an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from the University of Columbia, New York (USA).  Smita was a Barrister in private practice at Garden Court Chambers. Her professional experience encompasses both domestic and international litigation before regional human rights mechanisms, capacity building, and advisory work focussing on human rights and military justice, humanitarian law, freedom of expression, and child rights for civil society organisations and UN agencies such as UNICEF and UNDP. She was a Trustee for Media Defence for 8 years from 2014 to 2022, an civil society organisation defending journalists against violations of freedom of expression. 

Sugandha Jain is an advocate practicing in NCR Delhi India in various courts and tribunals. She is the Standing Counsel for the State of Chhattisgarh(Office of Advocate General) in the Supreme Court of India. She is also an Empanelled lawyer at Delhi University, National Commission for Schedule Tribes. She is also an External Expert Member of the Internal Complaint Committee Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace (Ex-ICC Member POSH) in the National Institute of Education Planning and Administration (NIEPA) NCERT. She has also been a Guest lecturer at Kalinga University. She has also been on ALL INDIA RADIO. 

Taras Shevchenko is a founder and development director of Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law - lead organization in Ukraine in Media, Civil Society and Rule of Law reforms in Ukraine. He has more that 20 years of experience in media law area including drafting legislation, lecturing and litigation. He served as a Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine from 2020 to 2024. As a Deputy Minister was responsible for drafting Information Security Strategy of Ukraine, creating Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security and also for launching ministerial project in Media Literacy Filter 

Thomas is currently a final-year PhD Candidate at the University of Edinburgh researching the regulation of journalistic AI and how such technologies incorporate journalistic values. He also teaches Media Law to Journalism students at both Undergraduate and Master's Level at City St. George's and the University of Westminster.

Wan Mohd Asnurbin Wan Jantan is currently a Deputy Registrar cum Senior Research Officer at Research Division of the Chief Justice’s Office at Palace of Justice in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Before that, he was a Deputy Registrar at the Court of Appeal at the Palace of Justice. Prior to his career in the judicial service, he served as Head of Corporate and Legal Branch of the Prosecution and Legal Division at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission in Putrajaya. Prior to that, Dr. Asnur was Head of Muamalat and Inspectorate Unit at the Syariah and Harmonisation of Law Division of the Attorney General's Chambers (AGC), Malaysia. During his stint at the AGC, Dr. Asnur has dealt with multifarious issues on international law, particularly on international trade,investment and investor-State-disputes, international dispute resolution and international arbitration matters when he was a Senior Federal Counsel at the International Affairs Division of AGC. Dr. Asnur has wide experience judging various international moot court competitions.  He has served as a judge and Panellist at the Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition, FDI Skadden Moot Court Competition, Monroe Price Media Law Moot Court Competition, the Law Asia Moot Court, and John H. Jackson WTO Moot Court Competition, etc. Dr. Asnur received his Ph.D in International Framework for Islamic Finance from University of Leeds (UK), an LL.M and a Wharton Business and Law Certificate from University of Pennsylvania (USA) where he studied as J.William Fulbright Scholar, and LL.B (Hons) from International Islamic University Malaysia. 

Wenlong Li is a Lecturer in Law at Aston Law School, specialising in AI and data regulation. He is affiliated with the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society (CDCS) and serves as a scientific expert for the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE). Wenlong brings a blend of academic and industry experience, having held research roles at TikTok/Bytedance, Alibaba, and Tencent, alongside academic positions at the University of Birmingham and the University of Edinburgh. Passionate about legal advocacy, he has been actively involved in the Oxford Price International Media Law Moot Court for over a decade as a mooter, judge, and coach. Wenlong holds a PhD in IT Law from the University of Edinburgh. 

Youmna Fares is a registered lawyer with the Beirut Bar Association. Throughout her legal career, she has counseled and guided corporate clients in the MENA region in navigating complex legal landscapes and negotiating contracts and international deals. As a certified anti-money laundering and global sanctions specialist, as well as a certified financial crimes investigator (member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists in the USA), her career is also marked by her commitment to financial crimes prevention and detection. Her hands-on experience has made her a trusted reference in the field: she has designed courses on human rights, and financial crimes and imparted her knowledge to students at Saint Joseph University (USJ) in Beirut and Executive MBA participants at ESA Business School and ESCP Business School, contributing to the development of the next generation of professionals. She is fluent in 4 languages (English, French, Arabic & Spanish) and is a published author with international contributions focused on the topics of money laundering and terrorism financing.