The 2024 ICC Moot Court Competition was held on March 23rd and March 24th, 2024 at Changping Campus of China University of Political Science and Law. The competition attracted 67 teams from universities, with a record high of the quantity. After the pleadings review, a total of 27 teams successfully advanced to the main competition debate. After two days of fierce competition, the team of Liaoning University Law School won the first prize in the ICC English Competition and advanced to the Hague International Competition with the fourth place, the best result since Liaoning University participated in the competition!
Introduction to the Competition
The International Criminal Court Moot Court English Competition China Selection Competition ("ICC English Competition" or "ICCMCC") is held by the Organising Committee of the International Criminal Court Moot Court English Competition of China University of Political Science and Law in consultation with the International Criminal Court. It aims to strengthen the cultivation of foreign-related rule of law talents and to improve the legal English proficiency and international law expertise of Chinese law students.
Members of the Team
The 2024 Liaoning University ICC English Competition Team was led by Professor Gao Ning of the School of Law as the guidance advisor, Ma Wenfei as the guidance coach, instructor Wang Xiuchuan as the team leader. Wang Run'nan, a graduate student from the Law School in 2022 served as the team captain. Wu Yin, Su Haixin, Bai Jianing who are also graduate students in 2023 and Wang Qiran, an undergraduate student in 2022 served as the official team members. The success of the team could not have been achieved without the behind-the-scenes support of the auxiliary team members. During the six-month preparation period, Qu Zhexiao, Zhang Xinyue, Fan Bingqian, Chen Rui'ang, Sun Shengbo, Li Jialu, Liu Yitong, Liu Tigeng, Pei Wanting, and Liu Can, undertook a lot of research work and provided invaluable support and help to the team. We also want to express our gratitude to Li Ziyue, a 2019 undergraduate student as well as the former captain of the ICC competition team at Liaoning University, for his encouragement and support to the team.
Introduction to the Competition Process
During the intense preparation phase from September 2023 to March 2024, team members overcame numerous difficulties such as conflicting submission deadlines and final exam times. They sacrificed all their vacation time and worked together to carefully interpret competition questions to enrich their thinking, maintained high-frequency simulated debates to improve their expression. While exploring and breaking through their own potential, they also completed a physical and mental challenge. During the six-month preparation process, the team members have long been accustomed to living with ICC day and night, silently witnessing everyone's efforts with several gigabytes of literature and accumulated hundreds of hours of online meetings.
Since 2019, under the care and encouragement of the leaders and teachers of the university and the Law School, the Liaoning University ICCMCC English team has won the first prize, the second prize and Best Memorial Team Award for many times. They have also made a new breakthrough in this competition which fully demonstrated the achievements of Liaoning University in cultivation of high quality foreign-related rule of law talents. In the future, Liaoning University will continue to make positive progress and strive to show the ability and elegance of Liaoning University students on the international stage and make further achievements!
List of Award Winners
The Champion
Jilin University
The Runner-up
Beijing Foreign Studies University
The Second Runner-up
Peking University School of Transnational Law
Teams Qualifying for the International Round
Peking University School of Transnational Law
Beijing Foreign Studies University
Jilin University
Liaoning University
Fudan University
The First Prize
Jilin University
Shandong University
Liaoning University
Beijing Foreign Studies University
Beijing Normal University
Fudan University
Peking University School of Transnational Law
Central South University
China Foreign Affairs University
The Second Prize
Shanghai University of Political Science and Law
Tongji University
Southwest University of Political Science and Law
China University of Political Science and Law
Wuhan University
University of International Business and Economics
Shenzhen University
Sun Yat-sen University
Ocean University of China
The Third Prize
East China University of Political Science and Law
Ningbo University
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Tianjin Normal University
Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
Hunan Normal University
University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
East China University of Science and Technology
Shandong University, Weihai
Wenzhou University
Tianjin University
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Best Memorial Team
Fudan University
Central South University
China Foreign Affairs University
Hunan Normal University
Peking University School of Transnational Law
Best Speaker in Final Round
Chen Qi from Jilin University
Best Defense Counsel Speaker in Preliminary Round
Huang Xinyi from China University of Political Science and Law
Best Prosecution Counsel Speaker in Preliminary Round
Chen Qi from Jilin University
Best Victims’ Counsel Speaker in Preliminary Round
Liu Ruizhe from Southwest University of Political Science & Law
The list of winners comes from the official website of the Organizing Committee for the International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition at China University of Political Science and Law.
