The Faculty of Law at the British University in Egypt won the first place in the Price Media Law Moot court Competition in it’s Middle East Regional Rounds, and has been qualified to the international in Oxford 2018.
The Competition is organized by Oxford University where its regional rounds were held at Notre Dame University-Louaize NDU, Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon. Fourteen Universities have participated from Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Tunisia, and Iran, The competition is based on oral pleadings as well as written defense memorandums on several topics related to Media Law and Human Rights. The Faculty of Law Mooting team was able to win all the matches in which they competed in the preliminary stages against the Lebanese University from Lebanon, Mansoura University from Egypt, and University of Alama Tabatabai from Iran. In the semi-finals, the team competed against Gaheed Baheshty University from Iran; and then competed against Mansoura University from Egypt once again in the finals.
The Jury was presided by Judge Mark Stevens, an attorney at the English Courts and a partner in Howard Kennedy’s UK office and a media law expert, Judge Olga Kafran, Head of the External Communication Office of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, and Judge Jelena Baminak, an attorney specialized in International Humanitarian Law, Diakonia Organization, Lebanon.
The British University team consisted of six students in the second year of the Faculty of Law and they are: –
* Nourhan Sayed Hussein Shaaban
* Rafik Ramez Mansour Nasim Mansour
* Ahmed Motaz Ahmed Sheir
*Youssef Abdelhamid Youssef Mohamed Abdelhamid
* Yousef Youssry Abdelmoneam Saleh
* Omar Hussein Abdelkarim Tantawy Mubarak
The students were supervised and coached by: –
Ms. Maha Omar, Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Law-BUE –
Mr. Mahmoud Hany, Demonstrator at the Faculty of Law-Bue
