Price Media Law Moot Court Competition

The judges for the 2016 international championship final between Singapore Management University and Jindal Global Law School, with Boštjan Zupančič presiding. With him were Facebook's head of product policy, Microsoft's Deputy General Counsel, the Director of Editorial Legal Services for The Guardian, and an attorney with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

The Price Media Law Moot Court Competition or Price Moot in short, is an annual international moot court competition that began in 2008. Described as a competition "for raising the profile of freedom of expression by bringing informed and effective debate and discussion on significant issues of information flows and technology to many parts of the world",^[1] the Price Moot, with around a hundred universities worldwide participating every year since 2013, is the largest moot in the world that focuses on international media law and related human rights such as freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and privacy.^[2] The sources of law engaged include the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, and the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights.

The moot was created and continues to be organised by the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford, and is named after the programme's founding director, Monroe E. Price. The international rounds are held at the University of Oxford, while national and regional rounds were introduced in 2010 and have since taken place in Afghanistan, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, China, East Africa, West Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Northeast Europe, and Southeast Europe. As of the tenth edition of the moot, 52 countries from 130 universities have taken part in the competition. Singapore Management University, which made its debut in 2010, has the best track record in the moot, having reached the finals on four occasions (2010, 2015, 2016, and 2017, winning the 2010, 2016, and 2017 editions), won Best Memorial twice (2010 and 2016), and Best Oralist once (2017). In addition, Singapore Management University is the only champion school to have won both Best Finals Oralist and Best Oralist (2017).

Under the current rules, each university may send a team comprising up to six members. National and regional round procedures may vary, but in Oxford, each team will compete in between three to four preliminary rounds. The top 16 teams then advance to the knockout rounds, and the final two teams compete in the international championship round following the octo-finals, quarter-finals, and semi-finals. In every round, each team has 45 minutes (rebuttals inclusive) to plead a case. Each team also has to prepare a set of written submissions for applicant and respondent before the oral phase of the competition begins.

Competition records

Year	Total number of teams	Number of teams at international rounds	Champion (win number)	Runner-up (win number)	Semi-finalists	Quarter-finalists	Best Oralist	Best Finals Oralist	Best Memorial
2008^[3]^[4]	8	8	International Islamic University Malaysia (1)				* International Islamic University Malaysia * International Islamic University Malaysia * University of Zimbabwe	NA	International Islamic University Malaysia
2009^[5]	13	13	Cardozo School of Law (1)	BPP Law School (1)	* International Islamic University Malaysia * Tbilisi State University		* Cardozo School of Law * BPP School of Law * Tbilisi State University	NA	* BPP Law School * Communication University of China
2010^[6]^[7]^[8]	25	25	Singapore Management University (1)	Cardozo School of Law (1)	* University of Bucharest * Hidayatullah National Law University	* International Islamic University Malaysia * Leiden University * National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy * The School of Excellence in Law, Chennai	* International Islamic University Malaysia * University College London	NA	* Singapore Management University * University of Bucharest
2011^[9]^[10]	28	28	Belgrade Law School (1)	Cardozo School of Law (2)	* University of Pennsylvania Law School * National Law School of India University	* National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy * National University of Singapore * Kaplan Law School * National University of Juridical Sciences	* National Law School of India University * National Law School of India University * University of Pennsylvania Law School	NA	* Belgrade Law School * Korea University
2012^[11]^[12]	70	33	Nalsar University of Law (1)	University of Technology Sydney (1)	* Valparaiso University * National Law University, Delhi	* Singapore Management University * National Law School of India University * Moi University * National University of Juridical Sciences	* Kaplan Law School * Singapore Management University	University of Technology Sydney	* National Law School of India University * Valparaiso University
2013^[13]^[14]	115	40	National Law University, Delhi (1)	Regent University (1)	* Singapore Management University * Southwestern Law School	* Brooklyn Law School * Hugh Wooding Law School * Universidade de São Paulo * National Law School of India University	* University of Oxford * National Law University, Delhi * National Law University, Delhi * Singapore Management University * Brooklyn Law School	National Law University, Delhi	* University of Nis * Southwestern Law School * University of Technology Sydney
2014^[15]^[16]^[17]	121	35	Jindal Global Law School (1)	University of Oxford (1)	* Brooklyn Law School * Queen Mary University	* China University of Political Science and Law * Hugh Wooding Law School * Singapore Management University * University of Technology Sydney	* University of Technology Sydney * Hugh Wooding Law School * National University of Juridical Sciences * University of Nis * University of São Paulo	University of Oxford	* University of Zagreb * University of Nairobi
2015^[18]^[19]^[20]	92	39	University of the Philippines (1)	Singapore Management University (1)	* Florida International University * National Law University, Jodhpur	* Ghent University * New York University * Regent University * University of São Paulo	* Brooklyn Law School * Regent University * Brooklyn Law School * University of the Philippines * Singapore Management University	University of the Philippines	* Regent University * Brooklyn Law School * National Law University, Jodhpur
2016^[21]^[22]^[23]	93	40	Singapore Management University (2)	Jindal Global Law School (1)	* National Law Institute University * University of Technology Sydney	* National University of Singapore * Osgoode Hall Law School * University of Melbourne * University of Oxford	* University of Zagreb * Jindal Global Law School	Jindal Global Law School	* Singapore Management University * Regent University
2017^[24]	92	44	Singapore Management University (3)	University of Oxford (2)	* University of the Philippines * University of San Carlos	* Lyceum of the Philippines University * National Law School of India University * National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy * University of Technology Sydney	* Singapore Management University * University of San Carlos * Singapore Management University	Singapore Management University	* Brooklyn Law School * Vilnius University

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