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18th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition
University of Lagos, Nigeria
10 - 15 August 2009
The 18th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition will be held at the University of Lagos, Nigeria from
10 to 15 August 2009. Students, academics and judges from
all over Africa are invited to participate.
All law faculties in Africa are invited to send one faculty
representative who works in the field of human rights (dean
or another lecturer) who will serve as a judge in the preliminary
rounds, and two undergraduate students (preferably one man
and one woman) who will constitute the team that represents
its university at the Moot Court.
The African Human Rights Moot Court Competition has become
the largest annual gathering on the continent of students
and lecturers of law. Established in 1992, 845 teams from
125 universities, representing 45 African countries, have
over the last 17 years participated in this premier event
on the university and human rights calendar of the continent.
The Competition aims to prepare a new generation of lawyers
to argue cases of alleged human rights violations before
the newly established African Court on Human and Peoples’
Rights, which is likely to become operational in 2008. The
programme is organised each year by the Centre for Human
Rights, in collaboration with a faculty of law in a host
country on the continent.
In 2009, the Moot Court Competition will be hosted at the
University of Lagos in Nigeria. Some 80 African universities are
expected to send teams to participate. Prominent African
and international jurists will serve as judges in the final
round. Students and lecturers will also attend a one-day
training workshop on human rights in Africa.
The African Human Rights Moot Court Competition is unique
in giving the youngest and the brightest future African
lawyers the opportunity to critically examine the human
rights situation on the continent, with a view to improving
it through the use of the persuasive tactics of logical
legal argument based on the African Charter on Human and
Peoples' Rights.
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