2018-12-04
TSU’s success: the Second Best European Team at the All-European Moot Court Competition
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The team had to plead before the
competent international jury on the actual and novel topics of
international humanitarian law and refugee law, such as: legality of
autonomous weapon systems, cyber attack and conduct of hostilities,
forcible displacement, relocation schemes for refugees, principle of
non-refoulment, war crimes and etc.
The TSU team was prepared under the supervision of professors and researchers of the International Law Institute. As Professor
Levan Alexidze in his capacity
of Director of International Law Institute established the wider
framework of this direction of TSU’s internationalization, Prof. Dr.
Ketevan Khutsishvili, whose
name is associated with introduction of refugee law and international
criminal law courses as separate disciplines in TSU curricula, and PhD
student of the Institute –
Onisime Tskhomelidze also supported the team preparations.
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This year’s edition of the moot court
was preceded by the round table discussions with participation of
professors of international humanitarian law and refugee law from the
central and south-east Europe. Participants of the meeting shared their
experience in teaching these subjects and also discussed challenges in
this regard. TSU was represented at the professors roundtable and the
subsequent conference devoted to the topics of the moot court
competition by Prof. Dr. Ketevan Khutsishvili and Dr. Saba Pipia.
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