The UP College of Law (LAW) emerged as champion of the Philippine National Rounds at the 2022 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition held virtually from Feb. 26 to March 1.
For the fifth consecutive year, the LAW team will represent the country in the competition’s global rounds.
According to the International Law Students Association webpage, “Jessup is the world’s largest moot competition, with participants from roughly 700 law schools in 100 countries and jurisdictions.” Participating teams prepare oral and written pleadings arguing both the applicant and respondent positions of a fictional dispute between countries before the International Court of Justice.
The LAW team composed of Aloysius Francis Bresnan, Czar Matthew Gerard Dayday, Berenice Joanna Dela Cruz, and Adrian Gabriel Padilla, bagged all the competition’s special awards for their written submissions: best applicant memorial award, best respondent memorial award, and best overall memorial award.
The team also won individual awards in the preliminary rounds. Dela Cruz won the best oralist award, while Bresnan, Dayday, and Padilla won the second, fourth, and 10th best oralist awards, respectively. Bresnan also won the championship round’s best oralist award.
The LAW team had professors Patricia Valeña and Carlo Borromeo as mentors and Prof. Rommel Casis as faculty adviser. The UP Law Center Information and Publications Division assisted the team during the competition.
The global rounds will be held online from March 25 to April 9. — With a report from the LAW