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European Law Moot Court Competition 

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Course ID
JUR-4EURLMC
Credits
7
Scheduled
Full Academic Year
Level
MA
Pre-requisites

FOREIGN EXCHANGE LAW STUDENTS:

To enable successful participation, advanced knowledge of EU law is required (at least a successfully completed course on substantive and procedural EU law or on European competition law at the home university). Participants must be proficient in both English and French, and be fluent in at least one of these languages.

 

Contents

 

Annually, the European Law Moot Court Society organises a pleading competition on EU Law. This Moot Court consists of two parts: the preparation of 'written pleadings' (September-November) and the actual pleading during the 'oral rounds' (February-April). The oral round take place at the Regional Finals in a university city somewhere in Europe. The competition's case is made public each year in the beginning of September. Team members have to prepare an extensive written pleading in English or in French, for both the respondent and the applicant team members. The Bench, consisting of practitioners and professors of European Law, will make a selection from the written pleadings. The selected teams will plead against eleven other teams at one of the four Regional Finals. Ultimately, four teams will proceed to the All European Finals which will be held at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. At the Nijmegen faculty, participants who pass the selection test may be assigned to a team (or teams) of four students each. They are expected to research, prepare and write the written pleadings themselves, whereby lecturers from the European Law department will take a supervisory role. If the team(s) manage to proceed to the Regional Finals, several training sessions will be staged in order to improve the students' oral pleading skills.

As participating students will have to put a lot of effort into successful performance in the Moot Court, the ELMC forms a unique opportunity to explore EU law in depth and apply it as a 'legal practitioner'. Participation in the Moot Court also offers students the opportunity to meet fellow students as well as practising lawyers and EU law professors from all over Europe.

For detailed information on the European Law Moot Court and its rules, see: http://www.elmc.org/.

Selection:
The selection of the participants will take place on the bases of a written and oral test. Only full-year Exchange-students can enter the competition.
Students interested in participating are expected to sign up in the first week of September at the secretary of the International & European Law department, room 4.01.35.

Examination

 

Each student will be evaluated individually on a substantial part of the written pleadings, according to the criteria applicable to a substantial thesis or paper.

Allocation of credits
 

Written phase: Study the hypothetical ELMC-case, research, prepare & write the written pleadings for both the applicant and the defendant: 126 hours

Oral phase: prepare & write memoranda of oral pleading, oral pleading before a ‘training Court', pleading before the Court for both, the applicant and the defendant, and as either an Advocate General or as a Commission Representative: 50 hours

Coaching by lecturers from the European Law department: 20 hours

Total (7 EC): 196 hours

Staff

Staff:

  • Mr. M.F.G. Wools (coordinator), e-mail:
  • mr. J.M. Veenbrink, Thomas van Aquinostraat 4, kamer 4.00.22, tel. 024-36112306, e-mail

 Secretariat:

  • mrs. drs. F. Argante, Thomas van Aquinostraat 4, room 4.00.25, tel.: +31-24-3615488, e-mail
  • mrs. drs. M.G. Grevinga, Thomas van Aquinostraat 4, room 4.00.25, tel.: +31-24-3615488, e-mail