External Competitions: Our Successes
The University of Buckingham Law School has a rich history of success in external mooting and negotiation competitions. External competitions provide an exciting opportunity for students to step outside their comfort zone, develop their confidence, hone their skills, and network with legal professionals and law students nationally and internationally.
For example:
- The quarter-final of the 2022-23 OUP & ICCA National Mooting Competition was judged by Lizanne Gumbel KC who provided useful feedback and tips to our competitors.
- Our national finalists of the 2023 CEDR Student Negotiation Competition were invited to a day of negotiation training at the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution in London. During the national finals held over 2 days at the University of Exeter, students participated in three 50-minute negotiations, including one multi-party negotiation, all modelled on real-life cases that had been dealt with by CEDR negotiators.
- Our students travelled to the Hague for the International Rounds of the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition, competing against teams from around Europe, receiving detailed feedback from and opportunities to mingle socially with international law experts and practitioners, as well as watching the international final at the Peace Palace, judged by a judge of the International Court of Justice.
Participation in external mooting competitions is also a way to discover areas of law or consider legal issues that are not covered in depth on the LLB curriculum. In recent years, Buckingham mooters have researched and presented arguments on legal issues as diverse as: whether cyber-attacks constitute a use of force under international law; responsibility for teachers experiencing burnout in employment law; planning permission for a wind farm located 15 meters from residential homes; and sexual enslavement under international criminal law.
The following students were selected to represent the Law School at national and international competitions, with many notable successes. You can also read testimonials from our previous competitors.
| 2023 – 2024 | Megan Priestman, Wajahat Mahmood, Sonali Bhujun, and Maneeka Bhujun: International Rounds (The Hague), Telders International Law Moot Court Competition with Muhammad Wajahat Mahmood ranking in the “Top 40 – Best Oralists” at number 26 Willin Belliard and Seon Tatem: Quarterfinalists, Landmark Chambers Property Law Moot Oliver Hall and Tessa de Klerk: Landmark Chambers Judicial Review Moot Seon Tatem and Willin Belliard: ESU-Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition Maneeka Bhujun, Oliver Hall, and Megan Priestman: Nuremberg Moot Court Competition (written round) Cameron Still and Prince Sethi; Yulia Gulyaeva and Sumaya Bashir Mohamed: CEDR Student Negotiation Competition Simone Michaud and Oliver Hall: The Client Interviewing Competition |
| 2022 -2023 | Tessa de Klerk and Zainab Hameed: Semi-Finalists, OUP & ICCA National Mooting Competition with Cameron Still mooting in the first two rounds, and Mikala Allen and Natalie Ellis in the reserve Sharnette Davis and Wajahat Mahmood: National Finalists, CEDR Student Negotiation Competition (The team at the regional rounds, composed of Sharnette Davis and Cameron Still, scored the highest of 62 teams) |
| 2021 – 2022 | Tasiemobi Nweze and Oghenenerovwo Avworo: 2nd Round, OUP & ICCA National Student Negotiation Competition with Sarah Okeke participating in the first round, and Nicolas Jeganathan in the reserve Simon-Peters Mobuogwu and Vittesh William; Bakhtawar Imtiaz and Ziru Zhou: CEDR Student Negotiation Competition |
| 2020 – 2021 | Afeefa Salehmohamed and Mahima Khatun: Semi-Finalists, OUP & ICCA National Mooting Competition |
| 2017 | Yashwanth Krishnan and Joshua Cullen: Finalists & Runner-Up, OUP National Mooting Competition held at BPP Law School (London) before HHJ Gratwicke |
| 2016 | Yashwanth Krishnan and Qais Babury: National Sports Law Negotiation Competition, Second Place overall |
| 2014 – 2015 | Shida Azari and Alexander Katznelson: National Finalists, CEDR Student Negotiation Competition having ranked 3rd place in the regional rounds Chi Ng and Amanda Yeo: CEDR Student Negotiation Competition Aaron Tate and William Neil: ESU-Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition |
| 2013 – 2014 | Elle Hunt and Justin Jannati; Willin Belliard and Sol Espejo: CEDR Student Negotiation Competition |
| 2009 – 2010 | Stephen Thomas and Leanne Coulton; Dominique Rolle and Manwaritan Dhalliwal: CEDR Student Negotiation Competition |
| 2008 – 2009 | Lincoln Bain and Laurie Kay Outten; Laura Taylor and Ekaterina Sukhorokova: CEDR Student Negotiation Competition |
| 2007 | Robin Carroll, Atoussa Mahmoudpour, Christian Tavares-Finson, Numaan Zeb: CEDR Student Negotiation Competition |
| 2006 | Tom Durbin and Denise Saunders: National Competition Winners, CEDR Student Negotiation Competition; International Negotiation Competition (Florida) Runners-up |
| 2005 | Paul Hogarth-Blood and Patrick Zawadski: National Finalists, CEDR Student Negotiation Competition |
| 2004 | Christine C and Carol Solomon: National Finalists, CEDR Student Negotiation Competition |
| 2003 | Simon Payne and Randolf Dorsett: CEDR Student Negotiation Competition |
| 2001 | Mario Gray and Adejoke Babington-Ashaye: National Semi-finalists, CEDR Student Negotiation Competition |