University of Belgrade - Faculty of Law
 

International Competitions

 

Participating in inter-faculty competitions in different fields of practice at the national and international level is a great challenge to students. The student teams are coached by professors and teaching assistants, and they have achieved notable success in the past.* Apart from national competitions in various fields, for a number of years now the Faculty of Law has enabled its students to participate in international competitions: Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (in international commercial and arbitration Law), Philip C. Jessup International Court of Justice Moot (in international public law), Jean Pictet International Humanitarian Law Moot (in international humanitarian law), Clinical Legal History Competition (simulation of a court proceeding in ancient Athens), etc.
 
The best recent results of the Faculty of Law students are:

  • they won third place (!) out of 178 contestants from 51 countries at the international competition Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot held in Vienna in April 2007;

  • they won second place at the regional Moot court competition in jurisprudence of European court of human rights held in Belgrade in April 2007;

  • the winner and several other best ranked students at the third Belgrade International Model UN (BIMUN) held in March-April 2006 (in competition of 50 foreign and 68 country participants, who were selected out of 200 applicants from 26 countries);

  • they finished 27th out of 156 contestants from 49 countries at the international competition Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot held in Vienna in April 2006;

  • they finished 28th out of 152 contestants from 47 countries at the international competition Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot held in Vienna in March 2005;

  • they finished third and fifth out of 38 teams in the World Online Negotiation Competition (ICODR) in February/March 2005 – the teams consisted of the students who had attended the Alternative Dispute Resolution course, taught by visiting lecturer Lynn Malley - mediator and attorney from Missouri (USA) and the director of the ADR Clinic at the University of Illinois School of Law.

 Winner  Moot Court