The Intellectual Property Moot Competition in Oxford
The Intellectual Property Moot Competition in Oxford is an annual program in which about 25 leading law schools from around the world take part. The program is held annually over 3 days in March in Oxford, England.
The Competition invites teams from universities around the world to prepare written submissions and present oral argument on each side of a hypothetical intellectual property law problem set by experts in the field. The law problem is published during September.
In recent years, complex and ground-breaking questions in the fields of intellectual property research have been presented as part of the program. Thus, aspects from the field of copyright, patent and trademark law were discussed.
The discussions also incorporate aspects from international research fields that promote the research and academic discourse both among the students who take part in the moot and among the researchers. Among dozens of schools from all over the world competing for a place in the competition, the best teams are selected and invited to argue in Oxford before a panel of sitting supreme judges and senior lawyers during March. Every year between two and three students from Harry Radzyner Law School are chosen to compete for a place in the competition. The students carry out a long research process during which they prepare arguments in relation to the law problem published by the organizing committee of the program in Oxford. All stages of the competition are held in English, including the selection, the written submissions and the oral argument. The program grants 2 credits.
The academic supervisors team includes Prof. Lior Zemer, Dr. Aviv Gaon and Adv. Ariel Dubinsky leading lawyers and researchers in the field in Israel.
