The NKUA’s School of Law team that represented Greece in the 2023 European Rounds of the International Moot Court Competition in Media and Information Law ‘Price Media Law Moot Court Competition’ (Paris, France, 31 January – 2 February 2024) advanced through the Regional Rounds and qualified for the International Rounds, which will take place in Oxford, UK, from 15 to 19 April 2024.
The Price Media Law Moot Court Competition is organized annually by the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Law. This year’s case approaches extremely interesting and topical legal issues related to Artificial Intelligence and its relationship with the fundamental right to freedom of expression. The case is available at https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/cases-and-rules.
The NKUA’s School of Law has been participating in the Competition since 2020, with excellent results thanks to its consistent performance at the memorials and the oral pleadings before the Judges.
This year’s team consisted of the NKUA’s undergraduate students Athanasia Pateli, Argyro-Demetra Papavassiliou, Ioanna Lymioti, and Ioanna-Rafailia Malandraki, under the supervision and guidance of Associate Professor of European Law at NKUA, Dr Rebecca-Emmanouela Papadopoulou, and Associate Professor of Public International Law at NKUA, Dr Georgios Kyriakopoulos. Coaching the team was Eleni Radovits, an undergraduate student at NKUA and former contestant of the Competition (2022 Competition Year).
The Memorial Judges and the Oral Rounds Judges gave the team outstanding feedback about their performance (‘Admirable legal reasoning and structure’, ‘Excellent understanding of Public International Law and profound understanding of the ambiguous legal realms of artificial intelligence’). The Judges were particularly impressed by the team’s broad and robust legal reasoning and profound understanding of Public International Law and Media and Information Law.
This outstanding distinction for the NKUA’s School of Law, which maintains a strong presence at the top of the Competition, is a testament to our students’ love of learning and research and their unique advantage over their international counterparts.
The participation and achievements of this year’s team were also made possible through the support of our sponsors, namely the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights (MFHR) and the Law Firms ‘Drakopoulos’, ‘Bahas, Gramatidis & Partners’, ‘Bernitsas’, ‘PotamitisVekris’, and ‘Troulis & Partners’ to whom we are grateful.
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