INTER-AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS

IN T ER - AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHT S
MOOT COURT COMPETITION
M AY 2 2 - 2 7 , 2 0 1 6 — WA S H I N G T O N , D C
T W E N T Y- F I R S T A N N U A L C O M P E T I T I O N
CO-SPONSORED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
AND THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
CONCURSO INTERAMERICANO DE DERECHOS HUMANOS
COMPETIÇÃO DE JULGAMENTO SIMULADO DO SISTEMA INTERAMERICANO DE DIREITOS HUMANOS
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WAY S T O PA RT I C I PAT E
Dear Friends,
It is a pleasure to once again invite you to
participate in the law school’s Inter-American
Human Rights Moot Court Competition, which
will take place on May 22-27, 2016 at American
COMPETITOR
Current law students studying for a Juris Doctor (J.D.) or its international equivalent
are eligible to participate in two-person teams representing their schools through
written and oral arguments.
University Washington College of Law in our new
campus in Washington, D.C. Our new, state-of-theart facilities will be a unique place where students,
alumni, practicing attorneys, and scholars can
continue to learn, network, reflect, and help shape
the legal profession.
As the world’s only trilingual moot court
competition on the Inter-American System, this
Competition creates extraordinary opportunities
for law students from across the globe to gain
expertise in the Inter-American human rights
legal system. Participants engage in research,
write legal briefs based on a hypothetical case,
and present oral arguments before attorneys
and leading figures in the human rights field.
Participants are also offered unique opportunities
to interact with fellow law students, faculty, and
human rights practitioners from the hemisphere
through the Competition itself, as well as through
lectures and social events.
The continued growth of the Competition has
greatly contributed to the strengthening of
COACH
Each team may have one or two coaches, who are usually international law professors
or attorneys with expertise in the field. Coaches assist teams with registering,
fundraising, and obtaining official approval for their team’s participation, as well
as developing research strategies.
OBSERVER
Deans, professors, and others affiliated with legal education or human rights law
may attend as observers to learn about the Competition model, the Inter-American
legal system, and issues surrounding the theme of that year. Observers may attend
all Competition events, but do not present arguments.
JUDGE
Lawyers from various countries who have ample experience in international law
and/or human rights contribute to the competition as volunteer judges. They
participate by grading written memorials from their home city, or by traveling
to Washington, D.C. to evaluate the Competition’s oral rounds.
BAILIFF
Anyone interested in receiving a front-row seat to the Competition’s oral rounds
is invited to participate as a bailiff. Bailiffs are responsible for keeping time and
order during the 90-minute oral rounds.
human rights legal education in the participating
universities. Law schools throughout the Americas
and elsewhere have developed courses and clinics
on the Inter-American system and established
valuable academic and exchange programs, many
of which are used by schools to select the law
students who will participate in our Competition in
COMPETITION PARTICIPANT ASSOCIATION
All former participants are invited to join the Participant Association. By doing so,
they can connect with the distinct network of Competition alumni from around
the world, learn how to coordinate relevant events at their respective universities,
and share ideas on how to improve the Competition with the moot court coordinators.
For more information, please visit the Competition website.
Washington, D.C.
I sincerely hope that you will be available to take
part in this exciting Competition.
Claudio Grossman, Dean
American University
Washington College of Law
For more information and to register:
www.wcl.american.edu/mcourt
I M P O RTA N T D AT E S
NOVEMBER 1, 2015
nline Registration Opens
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and Official Rules Available
JANUARY 22, 2016
larification Questions About
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Hypothetical Case Due
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
nswers to Clarification
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Questions Available Online
MARCH 18, 2016
Team Registration Deadline
MARCH 28, 2016
Team Memorial Deadline
APRIL 18, 2016
Bailiff Registration Deadline
APRIL 18, 2016
Observer Registration Deadline
MAY 1, 2016
Judge Registration Deadline
MAY 22, 2016
ompetition Check-in and Opening
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Ceremony (Mandatory Attendance
for Teams)
MAY 22-27, 2016
ral Rounds at American University
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Washington College of Law
G E N E R A L I N F O R M AT I O N
LANGUAGES
The Competition is conducted in English,
Spanish, and Portuguese. Participants
need not be bilingual. Simultaneous
interpretation is available during the
oral rounds.
U.S. VISA
It is important to contact your local U.S.
Consulate and apply for a tourist visa as
soon as possible. It may take up to several
months to schedule a visa interview. Each
visa applicant must provide all personal
information to the Consulate in accordance
with U.S. regulations.
REGISTRATION
COSTS
Teams, observers, bailiffs, and judges should
register online. Team registration fees and
observer registration fees are determined
each year in October. Please visit the moot
court website to view this year’s fees. Judges
and bailiffs do not pay
a registration fee.
The cost for each participant to attend the
Competition for seven days and six nights is
approximately $800. This estimate includes
food, local transportation, and university
accommodation, but does not account for
registration fees or transportation to and
from Washington, D.C.
HOUSING
THEME
All participants may stay at the American
University dormitories during the
Competition at a lower cost than local
hotels. Exact costs will be determined
in January 2016 and posted on the
Competition website.
The theme for the 2016 Competition
will be Extractive Industries and Human
Rights. The hypothetical case addressing
this theme will be available on the
Competition website December 9, 2015.
The Academy was created to promote human rights, strengthen the links between human rights organizations, practitioners,
and educators worldwide, and address the need for a specialized, scholarly legal approach to human rights law. The
advancement of human rights can be achieved by establishing human rights training programs and by offering human
rights students, scholars, and practitioners the opportunity to study international human rights systems and laws together
in an academic setting. The Academy accomplishes these tasks through its Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights
and Humanitarian Law, the Competition, the Human Rights Essay Award, its partnership programs, and scholarship
endeavors. Find out more at: www.wcl.american.edu/hracademy.
1996-2015 PARTICIPANT UNIVERSITIES:
2015 Competition Winners
ANGOLA • Universidad Católica De Angola • ARGENTINA • Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina • Universidad Católica de Cuyo • Universidad de Buenos Aires •
Universidad de Palermo • Universidad Nacional de Córdoba • Universidad Nacional de Cuyo • Universidad Nacional del Litoral • Universidad Nacional de la Plata • Universidad
Nacional de Tucumán • Universidad Nacional del Sur • Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires • AUSTRALIA • University of Sydney • BELGIUM •
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Universiteit Gent • BOLIVIA • Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo” Regional Cochabamba • Universidad Mayor de San Andrés •
Universidad Mayor de San Marco • Universidad Mayor de San Simón • Universidad Privada Domingo Savio • Universidad Ibmec • BRAZIL • Centro Universitário Toledo •
Faculdade ASCES • Faculdade de Direito da Fundação Escola Superior do Minestério Público • Centro Universitário do Para • Centro Universitário Newton Paiva • Complexo de
Ensino Superior de Santa Catarina (CESUSC) • Faculdade de Direito de São Bernardo do Campo • Faculdade de Direito FUMEC • Faculdade Farias Brito – FFB • Faculdade do
Oeste de Minas • Facultades Integradas Antônio Esfrásio de Toledo • Fundação Getúlio Vargas • Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro • Universidade da Região de
Joinville (UNIVILLE) • Universidade de São Paulo • Universidade do Estado do Amazonas • Universidade Estácio de Sá • Universidade Estadual de Londrina • Universidade
Estadual de Feira de Santana/Colegiado de Direito • Universidade Estadual do Norte do Paraná • Universidade Federal da Paraíba • Universidade Federal de Alagoas •
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais • Universidade Federal de Pelotas • Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo • Universidade Federal do Pará • Universidade Federal do Rio
de Janeiro • Universidade Federal de Viçosa • Universidade Federal do Acre • Universidade Federal do Amazonas • Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul • Universidade
Presbiteriana Mackenzie FGV Direito Rio • Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro • Centro Universitário Curitiba • Escola De Direito Da Fundação Getúlio Vargas Do Rio De
Janeiro • Faculdade De Direito Da Universidade De São Paulo (FDUSP) • Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado • Universidade De São Paulo- Faculdade De Direito De Ribeirão
Preto • Universidade Federal De Mato Grosso • CAMEROON • University of Dschang • CANADA • Université de Montréal • Université du Québec à Montreal • Université Laval
• University of Ottawa • CHILE • Universidad Andrés Bello • Universidad Católica de Temuco • Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción • Universidad Central de Chile
• Universidad de Chile • Universidad de Talca • Universidad Diego Portales • COLOMBIA • Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia seccional Ibagué • Universidad Libre Seccional
Bogotá • Fundación Universidad Del Norte • Institución Universitaria CESMAG • Universidad Simón Bolívar – Facultad de Derecho Barranquilla • Colegio Mayor de Nuestra
Señora del Rosario • Corporación Universitaria de Sabaneta • Fundación Universidad del Norte • Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá & Cali) • Universidad Antonio Nariño
• Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga • Universidad Autónoma de Colombia • Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana • Universidad Católica de Colombia • Universidad
Cooperativa de Colombia Seccional Neiva • Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano • Universidad del Magdalena • Universidad de La Sabana • Universidad de los Andes •
Universidad de Nariño (Neiva & Bogotá) • Universidad del Cauca • Universidad Externado de Colombia • Universidad Industrial de Santander • Universidad La Gran Colombia
(Armenia) • Universidad Libre (Pereira & Socorro) • Universidad Nacional de Colombia • Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia • Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
• Universidad Santiago de Cali • Universidad Sergio Arboleda • Universidad Simón Bolívar • Universidad Sur Colombiana • Universidad de Medellín • Universidad ICESI •
Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina (Pereira) • Universidad Militar Nueva Granada • Universidad EAFIT • Universidad Santo Tomás • Universidad De San Buenaventura
Cali • Universidad Libre Seccional Cucuta • Universidad San Buenaventura - Seccional Medellín • COSTA RICA • Universidad Autónoma de Centroamérica • Universidad de
Costa Rica • Universidad Escuela Libre de Derecho • DOMINICAN REPUBLIC • Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra • Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo •
Universidad Iberoamericana • ECUADOR • Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador • Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil • Universidad de las Américas •
Universidad del Azuay (Cuenca-Ecuador) • Universidad del Pacifico • Universidad Internacional SEK • Universidad San Francisco de Quito • Universidad Tecnica de Ambato •
Universidad Técnica de Machala • Universidad Técnica Particular De Loja • EL SALVADOR • Universidad Capitán General Gerardo Barrios • Universidad Centroamericana José
Simeón Cañas • Universidad de El Salvador • FRANCE • Université Toulouse Capitole • GAMBIA • University of Gambia • GEORGIA • Foundation for Support of Legal
Education • GERMANY • Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen • GHANA • Ghana School of Law • GREECE • University of Athens • GUATEMALA
• Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala • Universidad Francisco Marroquín • Universidad Rafael Landívar • Universidad Rafael Landivar Campus de Quetzaltenango •
HONDURAS • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras • INDIA • Gujurat National Law University • National Law University, Jodhpur • Hidayatullah National Law
University, India • Institute of Law, Nirma University • Karnataka State Law University • MEXICO • Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey • Instituto Tecnológico y de
Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara • Universidad Tec Milenio Toluca • Universidad La Salle Laguna • Centro Escolar Felipe Carrillo Puerto • Centro
Universitario México • Escuela Libre • Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México • Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México •
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente • TEC de Monterrey (Guadalajara) • Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca • Universidad Autónoma de Baja
California • Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas • Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán • Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas • Universidad de Guadalajara • Universidad de
Monterrey • Universidad del Valle • Universidad de Xalapa • Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México • Universidad Iberoamericana de Laguna • Universidad
Iberoamericana Puebla • Universidad Iberoamericana Torreón • Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco • Universidad La Salle • Universidad Marista de Mérida • Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México • Universidad Panamericana • Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla • Universidad Veracruzana • Universidad YMCA • Universidad
Libre de Derecho de Monterrey • Universidad Libre de Derecho (México DF) • Universidad Autónoma de San Luis de Potosí • Centro Universitario De Educación Superior Hermosa
Provincia (CUESHP) • Instituto Technológico Y De Estudios Superiores De Occidente, A.C. • Universidad Autónoma De Queretaro • Universidad Autónoma Del Estado De Morelos
• NICARAGUA • Universidad Americana • Universidad Bluefields Indian and Caribbean University (BICU) • Universidad Centroamericana • Universidad de Ciencias Comerciales
Sede Leon • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua (León) • Universidad Politécnica de Nicaragua • NIGERIA • Bayero University, Kano • Benue State University,
Makurdi • Obafemi Awolowo University • University of Ilorin • University of Jos • University of Lagos • PANAMA • Universidad Católica Santa María la Antigua • Universidad
de Panamá • Universidad Latina de Panamá • PARAGUAY • Universidad Católica “Nuestra Señora de la Asunción” • Universidad del Norte • Universidad Nacional de Asunción
• PERU • Universidad Catolica San Pablo • Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga • Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú • Universidad Católica de Santa Maria
• Universidad de Lima • Universidad de Piura • Universidad de San Marcos • Universidad de San Martín de Porres • Universidad Nacional de Trujillo • Universidad Nacional
Federico Villarreal • Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco • Universidad Privada Antonio Guillermo • Universidad Tecnológica Intercontinental (UTIC) •
PUERTO RICO • Eugenio María de Hostos • Universidad de Puerto Rico • Universidad Interamericana • ROMANIA • West University of Timisoara • RUSSIA • Lomonosov
Moscow State University • Far Eastern National University Law Institute • SPAIN • Castilla - la Mancha • Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio • Universidad de Comillas - ICADE •
SRI LANKA • Sri Lanka Law College • SURINAME • Anton de Kom Universiteit van Suriname • SWITZERLAND • University of Lucerne • UNITED STATES • University of
Nevada • American University Washington College of Law • Case Western University • Chicago-Kent College of Law • DePaul University • Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
• George Mason University • Gonzaga University • Hamline University • Howard University • John Marshall School of Law • Loyola Law School • Northwestern University •
Nova Southeastern University • Rutgers School of Law • Syracuse University • Thomas Jefferson School of Law • University of Baltimore • University of Denver • University of
Florida • University of Idaho • University of Iowa College of Law • University of Maine • University of Maryland • University of Miami • University of Missouri – Kansas City •
Western State University College of Law • University of Michigan Law School • University of Notre Dame • University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law • University of
Pittsburgh • University of San Diego School of Law • University of St. Thomas • University of Washington • University of Wisconsin • Valparaiso University • Universidad de
Zulia • University of Oklahoma College of Law • URUGUAY • Universidad Católica del Uruguay • Universidad de la República del Uruguay • VENEZUELA • Universidad
Católica Andrés Bello • Universidad Católica del Táchira • Universidad Central de Venezuela • Universidad de Carabobo • Universidad de los Andes • Universidad Gran Mariscal
de Ayacucho Campus Ciudad Bolívar • Universidad de Margarita • Universidad Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho (Barcelona & Cumana) • Universidad Metropolitana • Universidad
Rafael Urdaneta • ANTIGUA & BARBUDA, BAHAMAS, BARBADOS, BELIZE, DOMINICA, GRENADA, JAMAICA, ST. KITTS & NEVIS, ST. LUCIA, ST. VINCENT & THE
GRENADINES AND TRINIDAD & TOBAGO • University of the West Indies, St. Augustine • University of the West Indies, Cave Hill • University of West Indies, Mona Campus
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Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition
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