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WTO Moot Court Competition 2009-2010
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| The third team to represent the Graduate Institute in the Competition this year proved to be an indubitable success. Students Cam Vidler, Christine Barthelemy, Greg Hudson and Wolfgang Alschner first swept the Regional Competition in Helsinki, Finland from 11 to 13 March 2010. The team, coached by Babette Ancery, Bassant El Attar, and Miguel Burnier da Silveira, also students at the Institute, won the competition’s final oral match as well as all available group and individual awards. |
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| After achieving the highest ranking in the preliminary matches of the regional competition, the team also won the semi-final and final matches. In addition to the team’s triumph throughout the oral competition, The Institute team won the awards for Best Written Submission, both as the complainant and as the respondent, as well as the Overall Best Written Submission Award. Finally, Wolfgang Alschner won the Best Orator Awards for the preliminary and semi-final matches, while Gregory Hudson won the Best Orator Award for the final match of the regional round. |
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| The Graduate Institute team went on to win high honors in the Final Oral Round of the ELSA competition in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from 24 to 29 May 2010, receiving the Letizia Raschella-Segi award for Best Overall Written Submissions. These submissions, counting for one third of their final score at the world oral round, helped the team take 5th place overall in the competition, making them the highest ranked European team in the world final. |
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| Cam Vidler, 2009-2010 team member |
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| “The moot court experience rapidly expanded my legal knowledge of themultilateral trading system; improved my oral pleading and publicspeaking skills; introduced me to ambitious and highly intelligentstudents who share my interests, both at the Institute and around theworld; and helped me network with top practitioners and scholars inthe field. It has made a major contribution to my academic andprofessional development; most recently in my policy consulting workwith UNCTAD.” |
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