Leiden wins Telders International Law Moot Court Competition
On 12 April 2008, the international law team of Leiden University won the finals of the 31st edition of the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition.
- Participants
- This year, 47 teams initially participated in the competition, making it necessary to organize national preliminary rounds in several countries. Finally, 25 teams from 24 different countries made it to the semi-finals of this year’s competition. At that stage of the competition, the Netherlands was represented by the Leiden University and the University of Groningen.
- The Final
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In the finals, which took place on 12 April 2008 in the Great Hall of Justice of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the Leiden team faced the University of Latvia. Amid great public interest and in the presence of Leiden University’s Rector Magnificus Paul van der Heijden, the finalists appeared before a court composed of eminent international judges: Judge Bengt Broms (Finland, President of the Iran-US Claims Tribunal), and two judges of the International Court of Justice, Judge Bruno Simma (Germany) and Judge Kenneth Keith (New-Zealand). The Leiden team won the finals of this internationally renowned moot court competition. The members of the Leiden team not only showed their ability to apply their extensive knowledge of public international law to a complicated case, they also impressed the eminent panel of judges with their excellent oral pleadings.
- Leiden Team
- The Leiden team was composed of Frederike Ambagtsheer (LLM Reg.) (finalist), David Robertson (LLM Reg.) (finalist), Yvonne McDermott (LLM Reg.) and Sibel Bor (Bach.). The team was coached by Dr. Eric De Brabandere, Lecturer at the Department of Public International Law, with the assistance of Elizabeth Rennie (LLM Adv.) and Barrie Sander (LLM Reg.).
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- The Aerial Incident Case’
- This year’s case was entitled ‘The Aerial Incident Case’, and involved issues of general international public law as well as international air law. The event benefited from the close cooperation between the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and the Institute for Air and Space Law of Leiden University.