Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition (2019)

LogoThe Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition is a unique trilingual (English, Portuguese, and Spanish) event established to train law students how to use the Inter-American human rights legal system as a legitimate forum for redressing human rights violations. Since its inception in 1995, it has trained over 3000 students and faculty participants from over 310 universities from the Americas and beyond. Written on a cutting-edge topic currently debated within the Inter-American system, the hypothetical case operates as the basis of the competition, and students argue the merits of this case by writing legal memoranda and preparing oral arguments for presentation in front of human rights experts acting as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The Competition is organized by the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of American University’s Washington College of Law.

Current edition:Case of Gonzalo Belano and 807 Other Wairan Persons v. Republic of Arcadia. Materials for the current edition are available on the Competition website. The Competition, will take place between 19 and 24 May 2019 in Washington, D.C.

In order to contribute to the preparation by participants in the Competition, the Codification Division has compiled resources available on the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL) for the 2019 edition of the Competition. Students will be able to draw on the resources available on the AVL website, including the Lecture Series, together with the related materials used in the preparation of lectures, the Historic Archives, as well as the International Law Handbook.


Lecture Series

The Lecture Series contains a permanent collection of lectures of enduring value on virtually every subject of international law delivered by leading international law scholars and practitioners from different regions, legal systems, cultures and sectors of the legal profession. Each lecture is accompanied by a list of related materials linking to documents available online. Lectures are available in video and audio formats.

A. Human Rights

Introduction

History

Internally Displaced Persons

Judicial Remedies

Regional Perspectives

Treaties

B. Courts and Tribunals
C. International Migration Law

Historic Archives

The Historic Archives is a unique resource which contains significant international law instruments. Each entry contains an introduction to a particular instrument prepared by a scholar or practitioner with expertise on the subject, information on its procedural history and related documents, as well as the text and status of the instrument. It is accompanied by available audiovisual materials relating to the negotiation and adoption of the instrument at meetings or diplomatic conferences.

A. Human Rights
B. Law of International Relations
C. Law of Treaties

International Law Handbook

International Law Handbook is a collection of instruments used by the Codification Division as study materials for its training courses under the Programme of Assistance. It is intended to be used as a general work of reference. It comprises four books, available free of charge on the AVL website: