Cambridge Jessup Team placed 2nd in the 2019 UK National Rounds

The 60^th UK Jessup National Rounds of the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition were held at Gray’s Inn from 15 to 17 February 2019.

The Cambridge Jessup team reached the final of the UK National Rounds, after wins in the quarter-finals (University of Bristol) and semi-finals (University of Nottingham). King’s College London, the winning team, and Cambridge will now go forward to the International Rounds of the competition, which will be held from 30 March to 6 April 2019 in Washington DC.

The UK final was held before a distinguished bench composed of Sir Michael Wood (presiding), Malcolm Forster and Agnieszka Zarówna.

This year’s Cambridge Jessup Team is composed of second year Tripos students Imogen Beltrami (Jesus), Christian Halt (Wolfson), Gabriel Tan (Girton) and Tiffany Tang (Magdalene). PhD student Bruno Gelinas-Faucher (Jesus) coached the team, and Dr Michael Waibel served as Faculty advisor.

The 2018-2019 season marks the 60^th year of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Jessup is the world's largest moot court competition, with participants from over 700 law schools in 95 countries. The Competition is a simulation of a fictional dispute between countries before the International Court of Justice, the judicial organ of the United Nations. The case for 2019 concerns the appropriation of traditional knowledge for commercial purposes, state responsibility for corporate environmental degradation and human rights violations, and majestic herds of migratory yaks.