Law students win International Roman Law Moot
Two Merton second-year undergraduates and an alumnus, together with a Jesus College student, have won the 11th International Roman Law Moot Court Competition.
The team - Niamh Herrett (2016), Andrew Dixon (2016), Daniel Schwennicke (2012), and Tim Koch (Jesus, 2016) - was supported by Professor Wolfgang Ernst, Regius Professor of Civil Law and a Fellow of All Souls, on substantive legal issues, and were coached by Alexandra Varga (St Cross, 2017).
The mooters learned about the complexities of two legal proceedings in Roman law; rei vindicatio - a legal action by which the plaintiff demands that the defendant return a thing that belongs to the plaintiff - and actio de incendio, ruina, naufragio, rate, nave expugnate - an action arising from aggravated theft involving fire, collapse of a house, shipwreck, or the capture of a boat or ship.
This year's competition was organized by Dr Benjamin Spagnolo, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor Jean-François Gerkens of the University of Liège; it was held in the Belgian cities of Eupen and Liège, which enabled the participants to also enjoy a day out to the German-speaking Community's parliament in Eupen, and to a chocolate factory.
- There was also success for second-year undergraduate Valerie Chee, representing the University of Oxford, who took 8th place in the list of best Oralists in the 2018 International Rounds of the 11th annual Price Media Law Moot Court Competition, which took place in Oxford during the week of 9–13 April 2018.
