Levan Alexidze Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the Levan Alexidze International Law Moot Court Competition – 2021
On December 20-22, 2021 international rounds of the Levan Alexidze International Law Moot Court Competition – Edition III 2021 were held in Tbilisi.
This international competition was established by the Levan Alexidze Foundation in 2019 in honour of Professor Levan Alexidze, the Founder of teaching and research of International Law in Georgia. The teams composed of the students from the Eastern Partnership of the European Union: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, as well as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey qualified to participate. Following the submission of the written memorials the teams to participate in the final rounds in Tbilisi were identified.
The jury unifying diversity of professionals in different panels declared the team from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv a Winner of the Edition III 2021 of the Levan Alexidze International Law Moot Court Competition.
A status of a Runner-up Team was granted to the team of the Riga Graduate School of Law.
Ms Hira Hergenç of the Istanbul Center for International Law and Ms Yana Kulinich of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv were awarded the certificates for winning the Best Speaker prize.
The Levan Alexidze Foundation, in close cooperation with ICMPD, in the framework of the EU-funded ENIGMMA 2 project, the Georgian American University and the International Criminal Law Centre at TSU, dedicated Edition III 2021 of the Levan Alexidze International Law Moot Court Competition to the following important and timely issues of International Law:
1.Statelessness due to disappearing Island State;
2.The international protection safeguards for the displaced in climate emergency;
3. Narcotic drug control, and right to health and welfare in the light of asylum procedure.
With the full observance of the respective COVID-19 related regulations, participating teams having arrived from Latvia, Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine addressed the main issues together with secondary issues alternatively representing the positions of applicant and respondent in the fictitious case.
The Levan Alexidze International Law Moot Court Competition – Edition III 2021 – was launched on 5 July, 2021 the day of celebrating the 95th jubilee of the great Professor and statesman Levan Alexidze, the foremost authority in the field of International law in Georgia, who was instrumental in the restoration of the independence of Georgia and in ensuring in its Constitutional framework that the legislation of Georgia shall comply with the universally recognised principles and norms of International Law, stressing that an international treaty ratified or acceded to by Georgia shall take precedence over domestic normative acts unless it comes into conflict with the Constitution or the Constitutional Agreement of Georgia. To celebrate Levan Alexidze’s life in continuous remembrance of his ground-breaking efforts to establish International Law as a firm pillar of Georgia’s legal framework, as of the 5th of July 2020, the Levan Alexidze Foundation established and annually celebrate the 5th of July an International Law Day in Georgia.
