Congratulations to AUCA Law Division students with the 4th place at the Eurasian Economic Union Moot Court Competition held in Moscow

December 18, 2019

AUCA Law students Aliia Abaskanova (senior, LLB), Begaiym Seiitbekova (junior, LLB), Anastasia Rukavichnikova (LLM) and Asylbek Kochkorov (LLM) placed 4th at the Dispute Settlement in Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) Moot Court Competition held in Moscow, Russia, on November 28 - December 1, 2019.

The AUCA team was the only team from Kyrgyzstan to reach the competition's oral rounds based on the written assignments (statement of claim and objection) under the guidance of the team's coaches, Hannepes Taychaev and Sultan Khalilov, AUCA Law Division instructors.

During the competition's oral rounds the AUCA team was successful and demonstrated an excellent level of public speaking and legal skills, as well as knowledge of Public and Private International Law, Civil Law as well as regulatory framework of the EAEU Law.

The EAEU Moot Court is the third annual international moot court competition held by the Department of International Law of the Russian State University of Justice, together with the International and Comparative Law Research Center (supported by the Russian Arbitration Center under the Russian Institute of Modern Arbitration).

The moot court competition is a unique educational platform that allows future legal experts to study dispute resolution models within the EAEU.

The purpose of this competition is to form a new generation of highly qualified specialists in the field of international law in the EAEU countries, able to represent the interests of both states and participants of their country’s business communities in international jurisdictional bodies.

The topics of the moot court “Case Concerning Gold” of 2019 were the jurisdiction of the EAEU Court, appropriate state representation in the EAEU Court, most favored nation treatment, international sanctions, and protection of cultural property.

21 teams from Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia took part in the written stage. 14 teams took part in the oral stage. Representatives of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation (RF), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the RF, Ministry of Economic Development of the RF, Supreme Court of the RF, Court of the EAEU, Eurasian Economic Commission, leading universities and law firms of the EAEU member states became the judges of the written and oral stages of the competition. Kamila Mateeva, Assistant Professor of the AUCA Law Division, was among the judges of the moot court competition. 

A panel of judges of the final round was composed of the judges of the European Court of Human Rights, the EAEU Court and Supreme Court of the RF. 

The winner of the tournament is the team of the Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg). The team of the Ural State Law University became the vice-champion of the competition. The team of the Russian State University of Justice became the bronze medalist. 

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