Ambassador Ducaru meets with Romanian participants in the 2006 Jessup International Moot Court Competition

March 30, 2006

Ambassador Sorin Ducaru met with the students from the University Of Bucharest Faculty Of Law that participated in the Shearman & Sterling International Rounds of the 2006 Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition, hosted in Washington on March 27-28. . The Romanian team was represented by 4 law students: Lorena Voinea, Corina Tanase, Irina Enea and Razvan Bardicea and coached by assistant professor Ruxandra Costache.
The Jessup Competition is a simulation of oral and written pleadings before the International Court of Justice. This year's Jessup Problem titled “The Case concerning the Elysian Field” dealt with issues of state succession, state and corporate responsibility and the rights and preservation of indigenous peoples in a world that grows smaller every day.
The 2006 edition of Jessup reunited 105 teams from 85 countries and it received the opening speech from H.E Stephen Schwebel, judge and former president of the International Court of Justice.
For more details please visit the competition site at: http://www.ilsa.org/jessup/index.shtml .