European Human Rights Moot Court Competition I
JUDr. Zuzana Vikarská, MJur, MPhil, Ph.D.
European Human Rights Moot Court Competition I
This is a preparatory course aiming to equip students of MUNI with skills necessary for participation in international human rights moot courts, namely the Helga Pedersen Moot Court Competition orgainsed annually by ELSA. The course runs throughout the summer (and is evaluated within the "spring semester"), with grades being submitted into the system in early September. Upon the participation in this course, students are also evaluated and selected for "Team Masaryk", i.e. the team representing our university in the above-mentioned moot court. The competition itself is launched and the case is published in September when the selected students can enrol in the follow-up course (MVV57914K) which allows them to participate in the competition.

This (self-standing) part of the course focuses on the moot court competition itself. Students are encouraged to read the webpage of the competition thoroughly, to understand the rules of the game and to get acquainted with the key information crucial for their future participation. This part can be completed at any time during the course. Some students prefer to do it at the beginning of the course, others prefer to come to back to it at the very end.

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The first part of the course equips students with the practical skill of searching for case law, identifying relevant cases, finding them in full-text version and reading them. There are two key skills: doing the research & understanding the content.

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The second part of the course further develops the skill of reading and understanding case law; the student also learns to write two versions of a memo, a quick one (in a timeframe of 30 minutes) and a full one (without any time limits). The aim is to learn how to approach a case in different conditions, i.e. under time presure vs. with no time constraints, aiming for full understanding.

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The third part of the course stretches beyond the database of the ECtHR's case law and leads students to explore also other sources such as academic writings. The key skill lies in the research itself: finding the relevant data and not getting lost in unrelated information.

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The fourth part of the course invites students to watch an existing litigation before the ECtHR, to digest the key arguments and to try to plead the same case themselves.

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The fifth and last part of the course brings all the previous parts together: students should draft their own submissions in the selected case while respecting the formatting rules of the competition. Teamwork is a cruicial element of this last part: the written submissions are prepared in pairs.

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