The moot court competition “Dispute Resolution in the EAEU 2024”
On 22 December 2024, the VI moot court competition on international law “Dispute Resolution in the EAEU – 2024”, organized by the Russian State University of Justice together with the International and Comparative Law Research Center with the support of the Eurasian Patent Office, has been completed.
The topics of the 2024 Competition Case, Trademark and Neural Networks, are the jurisdiction of the Eurasian Economic Union Court, Eurasian Economic Union trademarks, neural networks and their impact on competition in the Union, the non bis in idem principle, enforcement of decisions of the Eurasian Economic Union Court, and the right of veto of Eurasian Economic Union member states.
This year 23 teams from Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Armenia took part in the competition.
The finalists and winners were determined by judges with great experience: Natalia Kanishevskaya, Natalia Pavlova, and Sergey Fabrichny.
The winner of the competition has become the team of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow), the second place went to the team of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), the third place was shared by the teams of HSE University (St. Petersburg) and the American University of Central Asia.
The award “Best Speaker” was given to:
1 place – Elizaveta Kashubina, HSE University (St. Petersburg). She was also awarded a special prize from ICLRC – a certificate for participation in the Summer School on Public International Law
2 and 3 place are shared by Diana Grigoryan, Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, and Vladislav Dolbusin, HSE University (Moscow).
The award “Best Written Paper” was distributed as follows:
1 place – HSE University (St. Petersburg)
2 place – HSE University (Moscow)
3 place – Russian State University of Justice.
Dmitry Kudashov (RANEPA team) received the “Best Speaker of the Final Game” award.
The “Breakthrough of the Year” award was given to the team of the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, which received a special prize from ICLRC – a certificate to purchase legal literature.
A video of the finals is available on the Center's YouTube-channel (in Russian).