(The Structure)
The competition revolves around teams of two to four law students and is
structured in two levels: written rounds and oral rounds.
In the written rounds all participating teams will present memorials -
written submissions - both the claimant's and the respondent's. The memorials
will be judged individually and independently by two academics.
The best teams will proceed to the Oral Rounds - held at the WTO Centre in
Geneva.
The 12 teams participating in the Oral Rounds will be chosen either through
their written memorials or by winning a National Moot Court Competition
organized by an ELSA National Group.
The 12 teams will plead against each other - once as applicant and once as
respondent.
The best four will proceed to the Semi-Finals, where they shall only plead
once. Only two will make it to the Finals, where the best team of lawyers
will be declared.
(Registration)
Every accredited law school world-wide can participate with one team. Teams
are to be composed of between 2 to 4 students studying a degree allowing them
to enter a legal profession, whether they are in their undergraduate or
postgraduate studies. The Registration fee is €200.
Application forms must be sent to ELSA International by the 15th of December.
Applications will be confirmed, and the whole list of participants being
published by the 16th of December.
(Case)
This year's case deals with a trade conflict between 2 large economic blocs
arising when one bloc gives in to public opinion and commercial interests to
impose a wide import ban over the fish products from the other country which
allows the hunting of whales "scientific purposes" in spite of a moratorium on
commercial whaling.
Requests for clarifications can be sent to the IOC until 14 November 2002.
The answers to the clarifications will be made available for download on this
part of the website after 28 November 2002. The clarifications to the case will
be an integral part of the case
You may subscribe to the WTO Moot Court e-newsletter in order to be updated
about current developments by sending an e-mail to elsa@brutele.be with a
subscription request in the subject WTO Moot Court e-newsletter subscription
request.
For more information => http://www.elsa-online.org/emcc/Competition.asp#reg