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Luxembourg Moot Court teams: back in the game for 2020-2021

  • Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF)
    22 September 2021

The University of Luxembourg Moot Court programme 2020-2021 season ended in July 2021. While the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many cancelled competitions during the 2019-2020 season, in 2020-2021 all Moot Court Competitions were held remotely. The Luxembourg teams, who are coached by a team of dedicated doctoral students and supported by lawyers at Clifford Chance Luxembourg, all demonstrated a solid performance in their respective competitions:

  • At the Jessup Moot Court, the world’s largest Moot Court competition which brings together over 700 law schools, the Luxembourg team made it to the advanced rounds. They finished 145thamong 168 teams that made it to this round. Student Mandy Jordao was listed among the 100 best oralists at the global rounds.
  • The Tax Moot Court team made it to the final rounds and finished 8th in the world of the International and European Tax Moot Court.
  • The European Law Moot Court (ELMC) team made it once again to the semi-finals of the regional finals. Student Francisco Ríos Viñuela, the Commission agent for the team was ranked among the top 4 Commission agents.
  • The Media Law team took 10th place in Price Media Law Moot Court competition at final rounds. They won two rounds out of three, competing against the runner-up of the Northern European regional rounds Humboldt-University of Berlin (Germany) and against the runner-up of the Asia-Pacific regional rounds University of the Philippines Diliiman, (Philippines).
  • At the René Cassin European Human Rights competition, the Luxembourg team advanced through the written rounds, qualifying for the final oral rounds.
  • Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court team, despite their great performance, did not advance to the final regional rounds. 
  • At the ELSA European Human Rights Moot Court Competition, the Luxembourg team finished 28th out of 80 participating teams. Notably, the team was composed of solely of Bachelor students and faced teams comprising Master students during the competition. 
  • The International Criminal Court Moot Court team finished in the top 50% with a ranking of 46 out of 95 teams and received very positive feedback on both memorials and pleadings.

Associate Professor, Katerina Pantazatou, coordinator of the University’s Moot Court programme congratulated the teams and their coaches, saying, “I am very happy with the popularity of the Moot Courts, the students’ continuous commitment and excellent performance, despite the impossibility to travel due to the pandemic. I am sure this will be a fond memory for all of them, as much as it will be appreciated by their future employer.”