Welcome to the Competition!
14th Annual Competition: May 17-22, 2009
The Competition was established to train attorneys on how to use the Inter-American human rights legal system as a legitimate forum for redressing human rights violations.
The Competition requires students to argue the merits of a hypothetical case written on a cutting-edge topic currently being debated within the Inter-American human rights legal system. All student team members must be enrolled in a Juris Doctor (JD) degree program or its international equivalent to participate as a team. The oral round sessions occur in May, in Washington, DC.
In the past 13 years, we have:
- Trained 1500+ student and faculty participants from 100+ universities from 20+ countries on the Inter-American human rights legal system (map)
- Expanded to a trilingual Competition (English, Spanish, Portuguese)
- Created a network of alumni who currently work at local, national and international NGOs, human rights governmental offices, and the Inter-American Court and Commission of Human Rights.
- Involved private attorneys, human rights practitioners, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights attorneys and diplomatic corps members as volunteer judges
- Increased yearly participation of teams and countries represented
- Inspired law schools to create courses and clinics based on the Inter-American system
2009 Competition
Please check out the announcement section under "Current Competition" for updates on the upcoming 2009 Competition!
To Contact Us:
Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition
Attn:
Kristin Viken, Competition Coordinator
American University Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Phone: 202-274-4215
Fax: 202-274-4198
iamoot@wcl.american.edu
