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The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington
26.03.2010
Attorney-at-law Andrius Bambalas, who is also a lecturer at the Mykolas Romeris University on the subject of international and European Union law, on 20 – 26 March 2010 together with a team of the Mykolas Romeris University participated at the White & Case International Round of Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition held in Washington.
Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is the most prestigious moot court competition that was held for the 51st time already and that attracts attention of the global lawyers community every year. This International Law Moot Court Competition is the best-know legal knowledge tournament in the world with more than five thousand students participating from all over the world every year, representing best universities of the world. The right to participate in the competition is usually given to only one team from a country and the team of the Mykolas Romeris University was awarded the right to represent Lithuania after it defeated the team of the Vytautas Magnus University during national rounds in Washington.
Each year well-known experts of international law formulate a moot court problem which covers the hottest topics of the contemporary international law. This year moot court participants addressed issues of gaining territories by way of occupation, the right to self-determination of nations and the problems of protection of foreign investments and investors from unlawful measures of a state and indirect expropriation.
