International Criminal Court Moot Competition

The International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition or ICCMCC is an annual international moot court competition on international criminal law that is held at The Hague and organised by the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University, The Hague Campus, with the institutional support of the International Criminal Court.

The first edition of the competition was in 2005, but it only became an international competition in 2007.

Previously known as the ICC Trial Competition, the moot is now held in four languages: English, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish, with the English edition attracting the most number of teams.

Judges of the competition include ICC judges and officers, and teams have to present arguments based on a fictitious problem via the roles of prosecution counsel, defence counsel, government counsel, or victim’s representative.

The arguments made usually relate to pre-trial or appeal proceedings.

Each team is given 20 minutes for the main submissions and 10 minutes for rebuttal.

For the English edition of the moot, each country can only send two to three teams to participate; where necessary, regional rounds are organised to select the top two to three teams. Regional rounds have been held for North America, India, and China.

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The following teams will be participated in the 2017 edition of the ICC Moot Court Competition.

1. American University of Afghanistan, Afghanistan
2. “Hëna e plotë” (Bedër), Albania
3. Queensland University of Technology, Australia
4. Bond University, Australia
5. East West University, Bangladesh
6. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
7. Zenica, BiH
8. Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Brazil
9. Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Brazil
10. Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada
11. University of Ottawa, Canada
12. China University of Political Science and Law, China
13. Peking University, China
14. University of International Business and Economics, China
15. Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
16. University of Zagreb, Croatia
17. University of Law, Bloomsbury, England
18. Kingston University, England
19. University of Tartu, Estonia
20. University of Helsinki, Finland
21. Aix Marseille Université, France
22. Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, France
23. Sokhumi State University, Georgia
24. Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia
25. Winner German Round
26. Runner-up German Round
27. Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Ghana
28. National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
29. Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala
30. Gujarat National Law University, India
31. National Law University Delhi, India
32. National Law School of India University, India
33. Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
34. Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
35. Allameh Tabataba’i, Iran
36. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
37. Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
38. University of Jordan, Jordan
39. Moi University, Kenya
40. Strathmore University, Kenya
41. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
42. Univesity of Macau, Macau
43. University of Malaya, Malaysia
44. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
45. Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
46. Indus College of Law, Pakistan
47. Birzeit University, Palestine
48. University of the Philippines, Philippines
49. University of Bucharest, Romania
50. City University of Hong Kong, SAR Hong Kong
51. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, SAR Hong Kong
52. University of Aberdeen, Scotland
53. University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Law, Serbia
54. Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore
55. Singapore Management University, Singapore
56. Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Law, Slovakia
57. University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
58. Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
59. Bahçeşehir University, Turkey
60. Kadir Has University, Turkey
61. National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Ukraine
62. Institute of International Relations Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
63. Tulane University, USA
64. University of Miami, USA
65. University of Lusaka, Zambia