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Law students with the University of Sydney have walked away from the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Competition with its top prize.
Global law firm White & Case announced that the university had won the top prize, the White & Case Jessup Cup, in the recent international moot. Winning members Robert Clarke, Sarah Purvis, Shruti Janakiraman, Jake Jerogin and Hae Soo Park secured the prize after facing off against the National University of Singapore.
Due to the pandemic, the university had to forgo the overseas trip and instead was made to compete in an entirely virtual competition. Over six weeks, 574 teams competed in more than 2,000 matches accounting for over 3,000 hours of argument. More than 1,100 lawyers, professors and judges served on Jessup’s benches.
This year, the Jessup cases addressed the global pandemic and the obligations and responses of states with respect to the outbreak. It also involved questions of the jurisdiction of the court, a desperate claim for political asylum by an alleged rogue scientist and state responsibility for a suspicious aircraft explosion.
“Although we were not able to come together in person, with this year’s all-inclusive worldwide virtual rounds, we came together in a bigger and more connected way than the Jessup Competition has ever seen before – a testament to the extraordinary power of the Jessup community,” said White & Case chair Hugh Verrier.
Naomi Neilson is a senior journalist with a focus on court reporting for Lawyers Weekly.
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