The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is an advocacy competition for law students. Teams compete against one another through the presentation of oral and written pleadings to address timely issues of public international law in the context of a hypothetical legal dispute between sovereign states.

This year the 2023 White & Case Jessup International Rounds were held in Washington, D.C. from 8th to 15th April 2023. For roughly seven months around 600 teams from all around the world have drafted their written pleadings (“memorials”) both for the Applicant and the Respondent and prepared for the oral phase of the competition, in which they argued alternately as Applicant and Respondent against competing teams before a panel of judges, simulating a proceeding before the International Court of Justice in the Hague (ICJ).
 
This year the competition concerned the interpretation of a peace treaty, deadly attacks in allegedly occupied territory, unilateral economic sanctions, and the legal consequences of failing to dispose of hazardous waste properly.

The Faculty of Law, University of Maribor was represented by team members Patricija Glavica, Andrej Stanišić and Vita Višič under the mentorship of Leon Bulc, academic assistant Živa Šuta, full professor Matjaž Tratnik, PhD and assistant professor Petra Weingerl, PhD. The team competed against world-renowned law faculties and was rewarded with: 

•    the Alona E. Evans Award (Top Memorials at the White & Case International Rounds) for the best written submissions at international rounds (1st place),
•    the recognition for qualifying to the Elimination Rounds as one of the top 48 teams and
•    Patricija Glavica received ILI Award (top oralist from the non-native-English-speaking team with the highest Memorial score in the competition).

Results and award winners can be found on the official Jessup 2023 White & Case International Rounds post: https://www.ilsa.org/2023/04/17/jessup-2023-white-case-international-rounds-results-and-award-winners/. 

The team would like to thank all of the donors, who supported them: Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, MADDIB d.o.o., ATRIVA d.o.o., Topdom TEHNO CENTER, OKROGELNIK d.o.o., Robert Potnik s.p., BERT s.p., Robnik Robert s.p., KOMORA d.o.o., REMOPLAST d.o.o., Andragoški zavod Ljudska univerza Velenje and odvetniška pisarna Stamenković. Special thanks also goes to the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Washington D.C., who has welcomed and morally supported the team during their stay in Washington, D.C.

You are cordially invited to the guest lectures of Prof. dr. Stefan Enchelmaier from the University of Oxford. He will hold the following lectures (in English):

 - March 29 at 10:15 a.m.: course Comparative law and major legal systems (lecture room B)

 - March 30 at 8:45 a.m.: course EU Legal System and Institutions (lecture on Fundamental Principles of EU law), Auditorium Maximum

 - March 31 (tbc): discussion on legal studies and methodology

 - April 3 at 2pm: course Transnational Legal Studies (lecture on Free movement of goods in the EU)

Prof. Dr. Stefan Enchelmaier studied Law, Philosophy, and Latin at the universities of Cologne, Hamburg, and Edinburgh. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Bonn with a thesis on European competition law, and his habilitation from the University of Munich with a thesis on comparative Anglo-German personal property law. He also graduated LLM from the University of Edinburgh, and was conferred an MA by the University of Oxford. He held posts in Oxford (1997-2003); Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich (2003-2008); and York (2008-2013). He returned to Oxford in 2013.

For more information, you can contact doc. dr. Petra Weingerl at petra.weingerl@um.si.

We are announcing the 2023/2024 Call for Enrolment in Postgraduate Study Programmes of the University of Maribor. The first application period opens on 24 March 2023. 

The enrolment for the 2nd cycle Master's study programme "Law" and "European Legal Studies" at the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, will be open on 24 March 2023. We remain available for any additional questions at referat.pf@um.si.

>>> 8 reasons to choose Master's study programme "European Legal Studies" at Faculty of Law Maribor <<<

General provisions of the Call, available enrolment places and admission requirements are available on the my.um.si website > Future Students > Enrolment in Postgraduate Studies​.

The first application period for enrolment in the first year of master's studies will remain open until:

• ​​8 September 2023 for citizens of the Republic of Slovenia and EU Member States as well as Slovenians without Slovenian citizenship;
• 31 May 2023 for citizens of non-EU Member States.

The first application period for enrolment in the first year of doctoral studies will remain open until:

• ​​8 September 2023 for citizens of the Republic of Slovenia and EU Member States;​
• 31 May 2023 for Slovenians without Slovenian citizenship and citizens of non-EU Member States.

>>> Follow the application deadlines and apply in time for enrolment in the upcoming academic year!

Dear students.

The University of Maribor offers you comprehensive support in developing your potential and overcoming challenges during your studies. With the UM Student Hub, support is available to all UM students when deciding to study, during their studies and at the end of their studies when integrating into the labour market.

Check out and follow also:

• UM Student Hub website,
• news at my.UM,
• upcoming events and workshops for students,
• The University of Maribor social media: Facebook UM, LinkedIn UM, Instagram UM.

For participating in educational workshops, students also receive certificates (in a portfolio), which you can attach to your CV.

She has received several research grants and recognitions, including a PhD fellowship from the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, an Universiteitsfonds Limburg (SWOL) grant and the Europa Prize 2008, which she received for notable academic achievements in several Member States of the European Union.

Marta Santos Silva has been working in academic and policy pan-European projects for the harmonisation of European Private Law since 2005 and has vast international experience in teaching and academic management. The perspectives and insights obtained in her career to date have led to her current research agenda which combines consumer law, digitalisation, and sustainability studies. She has been analysing the potential of nudges for fostering environmental sustainability and how it affects consumer autonomy. Currently, she is studying the virtues of essentialism for consumers and how consumer law can and should react to this alternative consumption trend.

Doc. dr. Petra Weingerl has started running two research projects. She was successful in the European Commission's Erasmus + call with the Jean Monnet Module "Fundamental Rights in EU Business Law and Policy (FURBUS)". The Jean Monnet Module, which will combine teaching and research in a highly topical area, will run for three years.

This semester, doc. dr. Weingerl also launched a postdoctoral research project entitled "Deterrence as a concept in private enforcement of EU law". The postdoctoral project, funded by the Slovene Research Agency (ARRS), will run for two years.

You are kindly invited to attend the activities of both projects.

Elisa Paredis, Ph.D. Researcher and teaching assistant, from Faculty of Law University of Leuven, Belgium is visiting our faculty this week. She will conduct interviews with us regarding the designations of origin of goods in connection with the promotion of Slovenian quality and will give a lecture for 3rd-year students as part of the EU Internal Market course.

We wish her a pleasant stay at Faculty of Law University of Maribor

Our faculty was represented by Nina Berglez, Ilona Osrajnik, Živa Šuta, and Eva Žagar, under the mentorship of Leon Brulec, Admir Muratović, doc. Petra Weingerl Ph.D. and prof. Matjaž Tratnik Ph.D.

The team of the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, achieved 84th place (Preliminary and Advanced Rounds) in the world part of the competition (Global Rounds) among 571 teams, which represents 15% of the best. Živa Šuta was ranked among the 250 best speakers (oralists), and Nina Berglez reached 296th place as a speaker (White & Case Advanced Rounds all oralists).

As part of the competition, the team also recorded a presentation video, which you can watch below.

Congratulations!

The Students Civil Litigation Moot was first organized as an in-house moot for students from the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor and is getting bigger every year, with students from the Ljubljana Faculty of Law having started participating in 2016 and other universities in the following years.

The competition is based on a civil litigation procedure. Students need to study the procedural background to successfully file a lawsuit and afterward also the facts of the given case, to successfully argue their case in front of the made-up tribunal.

You are cordially invited to watch the presentation video of the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, produced by the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (SQAA).

On March 1, 2021, the largest law competition, the Jessup Moot Court Competition 2021, began, a simulation of the proceedings before the International Court of Justice in The Hague. About 1000 faculties from all over the world take part in this competition every year!

The groups represented the 'Applicant' and the 'Respondent' and represented their solutions to 4 fundamental issues before recognized lawyers, judges, lawyers, and professors:

• Border closures during a pandemic
• Diplomatic asylum
• The jurisdiction of the ICTY and the responsibility of the Countries to shoot down an aircraft.

At the intercontinental battles, the Faculty of Law of UM was represented by: Živa Šuta, Nina Berglez, Ilona Osrajnik, and Eva Žagar under the mentorship of Leon Brulec, Admir Muratović, doc. Petra Weingerl Ph.D. and prof. Matjaž Tratnik Ph.D.

They received two awards, namely the Best Memorial for the Applicant and the Best Memorial for the Respondent, awards for the best-written documents of both parties.

The enrolment for the 2nd cycle Master's study programme "Law" and "European Legal Studies" at the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, will be open on 24 March 2023.

We remain available for any additional questions at referat.pf@um.si.

>>> 8 reasons to choose Master's study programme "European Legal Studies" at Faculty of Law Maribor <<<

• The Faculty of Law provides a wealth of research facilities empowered by educational technologies, academic services, well-equipped modern libraries and reading rooms with access to international legal databases.
• It offers the opportunity to participate in the Erasmus programme, other cooperation programmes and networks encouraging the interchange of ideas between students, academic staff and the frequent visiting lecturers.
• Our lecturers are internationally renowned legal experts. They are specialised in various disciplines of EU law and many of them hold important positions in judiciary and other legal institutions.
• The programme offers in-depth studies of the classic branches of European law and those aspects of European integration that influence its relations with the international community.
• The programme deals with the multifaceted aspects of European integration linked with the political, social, economic, business, security, defence, energy, environmental and similar interests of the Member States and the Union as a whole. It will provide professional training that will superbly prepare the student to become a lawyer that will be empowered to perform the most demanding jobs in legal, economic and non-economic positions in the EU and in the international environment, which requires specific legal skills and additional professional qualifications.

You are invited to watch the video content.

You are cordially invited to attend a guest lecture of dr. Sarah Ganty with the title "EU Asylum, Immigration and Integration Policy: Selected Issues". The lecture will be held on Monday, 14 March 2022, at 1 pm in the lecture hall Auditorium Maximum. The lecture will be held under the auspices of the Jean Monnet Module Fundamental Rights and EU Business Law and Policy.

Sarah Ganty, LL.M. (Yale), Ph.D. (ULB), is a FWO postdoctoral researcher at the University of Ghent and a guest lecturer at the Central European University in Vienna and at the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels. Dr. Ganty is also a J. S. D. candidate at Yale Law School.