The 2008 Philip C. Jessup Competition

2008 Ukrainian National Rounds of the Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition: Results

Magisters for the sixth year in a row, serves both as the National Administrator and sponsor of the Competition in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian National Round of the Philip C. Jessup Competition 2008 for the first time was held in Magisters' office and the Hotel Vozdvyzhensky on February 22-24, 2008.

By results of the preliminary rounds, the teams of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Yaroslav the Wise National Law Academy of Ukraine were chosen to compete in the final round held on the last day of the Competition. The team from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy won the title of Ukrainian National Champion and will represent Ukraine at the International Championship in Washington, D.C. on April 6-12, 2008.

The "Best Memorial" prize of the National Championship went to Yaroslav the Wise National Law Academy of Ukraine, and the "Best Oralist" prize was given to Tetiana Opanasiuk, a student from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

The level of participants' knowledge was evaluated by Magisters associates Oksana Ilchenko, Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi, Olha Harasymiv and Roman Stepanenko, together with judges from the Institute of State and Law named after Koretskyy, OSCE, Baker & McKenzie, DLA Piper, Beiten Burkhardt, Danylko, Kushnir, Soltys & Yakymyak and the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences.

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COMPETITION MATERIALS

• Jessup 2008 Official Rules
• Summary of Rule Changes to the Jessup 2008 Official Rules
• Jessup 2008 Compromis
• Clarifications to the Compromis