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PRICE MEDIA LAW MOOT COURT COMPETITION

WELCOME

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On behalf of the University of Oxford’s Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, I am delighted to welcome you to the 12th International Rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition.

Over the course of this week you will deepen your understanding of media law and policy. These will include the important issues of free speech, incitement to violence and the regulation of social media.

We were impressed with the quality of teams’ arguments during Regional Rounds and also encouraged by the growing number of countries represented. This year we have seen seven successful Regional Rounds in Beijing (Asia Pacific), Kyiv (North East Europe), Budapest (South East Europe), New York (Americas), Cairo (Middle East), Johannesburg (Africa) and Delhi (South Asia). The selective International Rounds promise to be as challenging and exciting. Not only will you be making your cases before benches of highly-qualified experts, but you will also spend time getting to know fellow students from around the world who share your passion for the essential questions around freedom of expression and media law.

Together with our partners, we are committed to building research around the questions raised in the moot court case and beyond. The competition, the conferences and workshops, and the growing network of individuals and institutions involved in the Programme provide numerous opportunities for different players to come together and discuss contemporary issues relating to freedom of speech and media law and to explore possible policy responses to those issues. The Price Media Law Moot Court Programme is thus more than a moot court. It is building a global community engaged in discussing and studying media law and policy, and how media law does and should shape the world in which we live.

We are very proud to be the home of this important Programme and are delighted to welcome you to the Price Media Moot Court Competition community. We hope that your time in Oxford will be enjoyable and rewarding, and that your memories, and what you learn over the course of the week, will be meaningful and help you build your careers in the years ahead. As you do, please keep in touch wherever you may be.

Warm wishes and best of luck for the competition!

Professor Kate O’Regan, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford

@Oxford_MediaLaw @BonaveroIHR

W E L C O M E

The Price Media Law Moot Court Programme was founded in 2008 by the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford. Over the past ten years, the Competition has continued to grow.

It is now a high-profile event on the media law and policy calendar. The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, a new Institute within the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, has taken over responsibility for running the Moot Court Programme.

Though the Competition began with only Finals in Oxford, it now has Regional Rounds in South Asia, the Asia-Pacific, South East Europe, North East Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. Every year outstanding students from around the world come to Oxford to participate in the International Rounds of the Competition.

Monroe E. Price Founded the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy in 1998. He established the Programme as a place to encourage a network of practitioners and scholars from around the world, who would contribute to an understanding of the role of media in society. A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, Professor Price is a member of the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, where he directed the Center for Global Communication Studies. Professor Price chaired the Center for Media and Communications Studies at Central European University and is the author of many books and articles on the subject of media and society.

Dr Nicole Stremlau Is Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. She is currently leading a large ERC project on the Politics and Practice of Social Media in Conflict. She has recently led Oxford’s contribution to a large EU project on media and democratization conflicts (MeCODEM). As Head of PCMLP, Stremlau develops and manages international programmes on media law and policy, including the Price Media Law Moot Court Programme. She has established links between PCMLP with universities, law firms and media companies in India, China, Eastern Africa and the Middle East. Stremlau is co-director of the annual Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute, a researcher and author for the Horn of Africa for the annual Freedom House Press Freedom Rankings and an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Global Communications Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

P A R T N E R SH I S T O R Y O F T H E M O O T

The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) PCMLP is part of Oxford University Law Faculty’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. PCMLP is a research and policy programme that brings together scholars, policymakers and practitioners to study contemporary issues in global media law and policy. The Programme has a particular interest in understanding media and governance in transitioning and fragile states.

PCMLP explores the vast changes in media policy across the world from multiple disciplines: law, politics, international relations, economics and anthropology, among others. We achieve our objectives through conducting academic and policy relevant research; supporting and developing our network; and offering academic training and support.

More information on PCMLP can be found on our website: http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk

2019 Media Policy Summer Institute will be held from August 4-17, 2019For the past twenty years, the Media Policy Summer Institute has brought together top early career scholars (including advanced PhD students, post-

docs and lecturers), media lawyers and regulators, human rights activists, and policymakers from countries around the world to discuss the effects of technology, media, and policy from a global and multidisciplinary perspective. Participants take part in an intensive and interdisciplinary two-week program in Oxford that blends expert instruction with participatory activity, group work, and discussion.

With 30 participants each year, hailing from more than 20 countries, the Media Policy Summer Institute has long offered participants unrivalled exposure to the diverse experiences of its global participants as well as a uniquely informed comparative view of their different media and digital environments. The Institute’s alumni are an exceptional and vibrant group who stay engaged and collaborate well past the end of the 2-week Summer Institute through the active alumni network. Many go on to become leaders at top government agencies, corporations, non-profits, and academic institutions around the world.

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Free Speech DebateFreespeechdebate.com is a 13-language website for debating the norms and challenges of free speech in a connected world. It hosts an extraordinary range of contributions, in text, audio and video, from many different points of view and around the world. It proposes a set of challenging principles, such as, on violence ‘We neither make threats of violence nor accept violent intimidation’ (Principle 2), on religion ‘We respect the believer but not necessarily the content of the belief’ (Principle 6) and on privacy ‘We must be able to protect our privacy and to counter slurs on our reputations, but not prevent scrutiny that is in the public interest’ (Principle 7). Please visit the site and add your comments.

Ms Kamille Adair MorganKamille, Attorney-at-Law and Jamaica Rhodes Scholar, is reading for the D. Phil in Law at Hertford College, University of Oxford. She describes herself as a moot court enthusiast, having participated in various moots as a competitor, judge, coach, and

organiser. Kamille provides technical support for the Price Moot Court Regional Rounds and co-ordinates the International Rounds in Oxford.

Ms Nevena Krivokapic MartinovicNevena, Attorney-at-Law, is the Moot Court Co-ordinator for the Regional Rounds of the Price Moot Court Competition. She was a member of the University of Belgrade winning team of the Price Moot in 2011. In addition, she holds the position of

co-ordinator for online media and freedom of expression in the digital environment at SHARE foundation, Serbia. Her activities are mostly focused on the regulation of online media and free speech in digital environment.

Ms Sarah NormanSarah has been involved in education for the past 21 years, first as a history teacher and head of department, and then as an Assistant Principal Examiner on public examinations. She has also worked in digital resources for schools and higher education institutions. Based in

Oxford, she works with the team on the organisation of the International Rounds, as well as providing support for the Regional Rounds.

Ms Sanya SamtaniSanya is a DPhil student in Law at the University of Oxford. She is a Research Resident at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. In addition to having coached, judged, and participated in the Price Moot in previous years, she is presently the Assistant Moot Coordinator for the moot in 2018. She

also holds the position of Graduate Mooting Coordinator, which includes facilitating the organisation of internal and external moots across the university. As an undergraduate from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India, she participated in a number of moot court competitions, and subsequently coached whilst at Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarship. Her research areas include international human rights law, and constitutional law. She is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant for Public International Law at the Law Faculty.

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Monday 8th April 2018 (13:00-14:00) Bonavero Institute, Mansfield College

MOOTING MASTERCLASS We are delighted to welcome Sarah Phillimore once again to present a Mooting Masterclass.

Sarah is currently a barrister at St Johns Chambers in Bristol, specialising in family law. She enjoyed a variety of student and intervarsity mooting and debating from between 1990 and 1995. Sarah won the UCL Second and Third Year Moot in 1993, the Inter Inns Moot in 1994 and came second in the Public Speaking Finals of the World’s Debating Championships in 1994.

Sarah won the UCL Mooting Competition in 1993 and the Inter Inns Competition in 1994 and took part in many moots along the way. She was also runner up in a European Moot judged by Lord Slynn in 1994 at Lincolns’ Inn.

She also had success as a debater and public speaker both for UCL and Lincolns’ Inn – her proudest achievement to date was coming second in the Public Speaking Finals at the 1994 Worlds Debating Championships held at Oxford. Sarah ran the Lincoln’s Inn Debating Society in 1994 whilst at Bar School.

Sarah has continued to be involved in both mooting and debating by judging student moots at the University of the West of England since moving to Bristol in 2011 and being a tenant at St Johns. She will also be visiting a local school next year to help their student Debating Club.

Sarah has been a tenant at St Johns Chambers in Bristol since 2010 and was before then a tenant at 4 King’s Bench Walk and Coram Chambers in London. She was called to the Bar in 1994.

Monday 8th April 2018 (14:30-16:00)Bonavero Institute, Mansfield College

PANEL DISCUSSION Contemporary challenges for Media Law and Freedom of Expression.

Wednesday 10th April 2018 (18:00-19:30)Bonavero Institute, Mansfield College

FIRST ANNUAL ERIC BARENDT LAW LECTURE

The Mystery of Regulating Social Media – delivered by Professor Monroe E Price

The Journal of Media Law (published by Taylor and Francis) was established in 2009 by Eric Barendt, Tom Gibbons

and Rachael Craufurd -Smith. In its first decade it has established itself as a leading specialist journal focusing on global developments in media law (receiving contributions from scholars in various jurisdictions). In 2019, it is establishing an annual lecture to be given by a leading figure in the field, which will be published in the Journal. It is a great honour to have Professor Monroe E Price deliver this inaugural lecture.

Monroe Price has been on the faculty of the Annenberg School for Communications where he directed the Center for Global Communication Studies. He founded Oxford’s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy and seeded several other media policy research programs globally. A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School among his books are Free Expression, Globalism and the New Strategic Communication and Speech and Society in Turbulent Times (edited with Nicole Stremlau. The Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Program was named in his honor because of his work establishing PCMLP and fostering media policy research around the world.

The Honourable Chief Justice Peter Sam Shivute

Peter Sam Shivute was born on 25 September 1963 in Namibia. He is the fourth in the family of six, five boys and one girl. He is married to Justice Naomi Shivute who is a Judge of the High Court.

He read law at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Honours Degree in 1991.

In 1995 he was awarded a Chevening Scholarship by the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office to do a Masters Degree in Law at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom where he obtained a Masters Degree (LL.M) in Law in Development.

From 1986 to 1988 Peter Shivute worked as a magistrate in the Judicial Service of Zambia. He continued with his judicial career in Namibia from 1992 when he was appointed Magistrate. He rapidly rose through the ranks to reach the highest level in the Magistracy when he was appointed Regional Court Magistrate in 1999, the position he held until the year 2000 when he was appointed a Judge of the High Court, initially as an Acting Judge and later as a Judge in a permanent capacity. In 2003 he was appointed Judge President of the High Court. As the head of the High Court and most senior Judge at that institution, the Judge President bears the ultimate responsibility of ensuring sound administration and effective service-delivery at the High Court. Apart from administrative responsibilities, the Judge President also performs normal judicial functions.

On 1 December 2004, at the age of 41, Peter Shivute was appointed Chief Justice of the Republic of Namibia and took overall responsibility for the Namibian Judiciary. He presides over the Supreme Court of Namibia which hears and adjudicates upon appeals, including appeals which involve the interpretation, implementation and upholding of the Namibian Constitution and the fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed in it.

Judge Nona Tsotsoria

A graduate of Tbilisi State University Faculty of Law and and MGA of the University of Pennsylvania, is a Georgian Judge who was one of 47 judges elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to serve on the European Court of Human Rights (established in 1959)

and adjudicate applications brought against Member States by individuals, entities and other Member States alleging violations of the European Convention on Human Rights (1950). She served as such between 2008 – 2018. Prior to this she was second in command at the Office of the Prosecutor General, Tblisi, Georgia, when it was at the forefront of the post-Rose Revolution national reforms, which were targeted at fighting the Soviet legacy of endemic corruption, organised crime and human trafficking. From 2001 – 2004 Nona was the Programme Director and Legal Advisor on Institutional Reform and the informal sector (IRIS) University of Maryland / Georgia Project as well as being a Lecturer in Constitutional Justice at Tblisi State University Faculty of International Law / International Relations.

Judge Tsotsoria has had a long career in the law having been a Law Clerk to the Constitutional Court of Georgia (1996 – 1999), Legal Consultant to the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) (1997 – 2000), Lecturer in Constitutional Justice and Constitutional Law Tbilisi State University (1999 – 2000), an Associate at Kordzadze & Svanidze (1999 – 2000), Legal Advisor Amex International Inc, (2000 – 2001).

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Friday 12th April 2018 (10:00-10:45) Bonavero Institute, Mansfield College

MEET THE FINAL BENCH JUDGES We are delighted that, once again, this year’s Final Bench will be comprised entirely of sitting or former judges from a range of countries around the world. Our judges have kindly agreed to ‘meet’ with the participants of the Moot prior to the final to tell us a little about themselves and answer questions.

Judge Nicolas Bratza

A graduate of Oxford University, he was called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn (of which he is a Bencher) in 1969 and practised as a barrister specialising in commercial, public and human rights law. He was appointed as a Junior Counsel to the Crown in 1978

and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1988. In 1993 he was elected as the United Kingdom member of the European Commission of Human Rights. In 1998 he was appointed a judge of the High Court and elected as the first United Kingdom judge of the permanent European Court of Human Rights. In the same year, he was elected as one of the Section Presidents of the Court and in 2007 was elected as one of the Court’s two Vice-Presidents. In 2011 he was elected as President of the Court, a post he held until his retirement from the Court and from the High Court in October 2012. He is a member of the International Commission of Jurists, Chairman of the British Institute of Human Rights and a member of the Board of the Helen Bamber Foundation and of the Executive Committee of the International Commission of Jurists. He holds Honorary Doctorates of the Universities of Essex and Glasgow. He is an Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and an Honorary Bencher of Kings Inns, Dublin.

Judge Kate O’Regan

Is the inaugural Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and a former judge of the South African Constitutional Court (1994 – 2009). In the mid-1980s she practiced as a lawyer in Johannesburg in a variety of fields, but especially labour

law and land law, representing many of the emerging trade unions and their members, as well as communities threatened with eviction under apartheid land laws. In 1990, she joined the Faculty of Law at UCT where she taught a range of courses including race, gender and the law, labour law, civil procedure and evidence. Since her fifteen-year term at the South African Constitutional Court ended in 2009, she has amongst other things served as an ad hoc judge of the Supreme Court of Namibia (from 2010 – 2016), Chairperson of the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry into allegations of police inefficiency and a breakdown in trust between the police and the community of Khayelitsha (2012 – 2014), and as a member of the boards or advisory bodies of many NGOs working in the fields of democracy, the rule of law, human rights and equality.

Friday 12th April 2018 (11:00-11:20) Bonavero Institute, Mansfield College

THE MOOT PROBLEMA brief reflection on the main issues of this year’s Case by the Team behind it.

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Cyanisia has a population of approximately 5 million people, and has been governed by the Cyanisian National Party for more than three decades. Unger Ras, a former university professor, founded the Democratic Party of Cyanisia (DPC), the main opposition party.

In February 2001, the state newspaper The Cyanisian Times reported that a warrant had been issued against Ras for alleged misappropriation of university funds. Ras thereafter fled Cyanisia and sought asylum in neighbouring Magentonia. He claimed he was being persecuted for his political opinions. His former university issued a public statement in April clarifying that he had been fully exonerated of charges.

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his former university’s statement. The Magentonian Mail decided to remove the 1 April article on 15 April.

By 15 April, the Magentonian Mail article on Ras had begun to ‘trend’ on UConnect, and was featured on users’ ‘live feeds’ and search results. On 25 April, an anonymous user named TakeBackMag200 posted a web link to the online version of the original 2001 story appearing in The Cyanisian Times with the caption, ‘you can’t erase history’. The story began to appear high on the list of search results when the search terms ‘Ras’ or ‘Unger Ras’ were entered. On 29 April, Ras wrote to UConnect requesting that the TakeBackMag200 post, and all search results depicting the 2001 Cyanisian Times story be blocked or removed. UConnect responded on 30 April stating that it would remove the post, but would not remove search results, unless ordered to do so by the Information and Data Protection Commission (IDPC) of Magentonia.

On 5 May, Ras filed a petition before the IDPC seeking an order to compel UConnect to remove search results depicting The Cyanisian Times story. He cited section 22 of the Public Information and Data Protection Act of 2016 (PIDPA), which provided for rectification, erasure or blocking of data which is irrelevant, incomplete or inaccurate. The Commission rejected Ras’s request and dismissed the petition, reasoning that the information appearing in the search results was relevant to the public interest. Ras thereafter appealed to the High Court of Magentonia, which later dismissed his appeal.

In May 2018, an organisation called Take Back Magentonia (TBM) began posting anti-Ras and anti-refugee posts on UConnect. A post on 26 May calling Cyanisian refugees ‘bottom feeders’, and insinuating Ras was a ‘thief’ and ‘fraudster’ began to ‘trend’. This post was taken down on 30 May following continuous complaints from users between 26 and 30 May. UConnect did

not, however, suspend TBM’s account. Another post on 30 May claimed that a study by the University of Magentonia revealed that Cyanisian refugees would outnumber Magentonians by 2025.

This post also ‘trended’, and became the most viewed post on UConnect in Magentonia between 30 May and 1 June. However, no user complained against the post.

On 1 June, the Magentonian government filed action before the High Court seeking an injunction against UConnect under the PIDPA. UConnect was charged under sections 3 and 5 of the Act, respectively for the TBM posts on 26 and 30 May. Section 3 prohibited advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred constituting incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence, while section 5 prohibited the reckless dissemination of false propaganda that coerces or misleads the public to do or

State authorities in Cyanisia have systematically persecuted members of the DPC, most of whom are from the Celadon tribe, a minority group constituting approximately 10 percent of the population in Cyanisia. The systematic violence resulted in approximately 65,000 Cyanisians crossing the border between January and December 2010.Magentonia has a population of 1 million people. Two main political parties – the United Magentonia Party (UMP) and the Magentonian Popular Front (MPF) – contest in parliamentary elections every five years. In August 2013, the UMP secured 65% of the seats in parliament, while the MPF secured 30% of the seats.

After acquiring citizenship in Magentonia, Ras joined the UMP and campaigned to raise awareness on the human rights abuses in Cyanisia. He announced that he was running for office at the next parliamentary election due in June 2018, and that he would work to ensure that Cyanisian refugees receive a faster track to Magentonian citizenship.

A market crash in February 2018 resulted in fears that Magentonia would face economic recession. In the lead up to the parliamentary election, MPF pledged to prevent the further influx of immigrants under the campaign slogan: ‘Take back Magentonia!’

UConnect is a social media platform, with its headquarters in Magentonia. Over 60% of the populations in Cyanisia and Magentonia use the platform. The platform: (1) enables users to post, comment on and share stories; and (2) contains a search functionality, whereby users can search the Internet. The platform has a function where posts that are highly viewed and shared would ‘trend’ and then appear on users’ ‘live feeds’, and

search results. UConnect has a Complaints Portal through which a person can request removal of posts that violate UConnect’s Community Standards. The Standards provide that a post would be taken down if it: a) incited violence, b) amounted to defamation, or c) violated any law in the country concerned.

On 1 April 2018, the Magentonian Mail, a private news website in Magentonia, published an article claiming that Ras fled Cyanisia in 2001 following a ‘corruption scandal’, and that an arrest warrant had been issued against him. The article linked the online version of the 2001 The Cyanisian Times article. On 3 April, The Magentonian Mail carried Ras’s response, which claimed that the story was false, and reproduced

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refrain from doing something. On 2 June, the High Court issued an interim injunction ordering UConnect to suspend all operations in Magentonia until the conclusion of the trial. At the trial, it found UConnect guilty of both charges, and ordered UConnect to pay a fine of USD 100,000.

The UMP narrowly won the parliamentary election of 4 June, securing 50% of the seats in parliament. The MPF secured 45% of seats. Ras failed to secure a seat in parliament. Magentonia Watch, an independent civil society organisation, published a report on the impact of social media on the parliamentary elections, and

concluded that the significant decline in the UMP’s seats, and Ras’s unexpected electoral failure, might be attributed to the successful campaign conducted by TBM via UConnect.

Both Ras and UConnect now challenge the decisions of the Magentonian courts before the Universal Court of Human Rights.

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The Court has certified three discrete issues:

1. Whether Magentonia’s decision not to grant Ras any rectification, erasure or blocking of search results depicting The Cyanisian Times story of 2001 violated article 17 of the ICCPR.

2. Whether Magentonia’s decision of 2 June 2018 to direct UConnect to suspend all operations until the conclusion of the trial violated article 19 of the ICCPR.

3. Whether Magentonia’s prosecution and conviction of UConnect under sections 3 and 5 of the PIDPA violated article 19 of the ICCPR.

REGIONAL ROUNDS

‘you can’t erase history’

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The ninth annual South Asia Regional Rounds, hosted in partnership with the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi, took place in Delhi from 22 to 25 November 2018.

Overall Winner Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar

Runner-up National Law University Odisha, Cuttack

Best Memorials National Law University Odisha, Cuttack

Best Oralist Sharnam Vaswani, Government Law College, Mumbai

Best Oralists Runner-up Arvind Pillai, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar

Qualifying for the International rounds

Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar National Law University Odisha, Cuttack BRAC University, Bangladesh Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal

The sixth Asia-Pacific Regional Rounds, hosted in partnership with Law School & Aisa-Pacific Institute of Law, Renmin University of China, took place in Beijing from 5 to 7 December.Overall Winner Lyceum of the Philippines University, Philippines

Runner-up University of Malaya, Malaysia

Best Oralist in Finals Hui Jun Hong, University of Malaya

Best Memorials University of Malaya, Malaysia

Best Memorials Runner-up Renmin University of China, China

Best Oralist Julia Alexandra Chu, University of the Philippines

Best Oralist Runner-up Hui Jun Hong, University of Malaya


Lyceum of the Phillippines University, Philippines University of Malaya, Malaysia Univeristy of International Business and Economics, China University of the Philippines, Philippines

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The seventh annual South East Europe Regional Rounds, hosted in partnership with the Eötvös Loránd University, took place in Budapest from 5 to 7 December, 2018.Overall Winner Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Runner-up University of Tirana, Law Faculty, Albania

Best Oralist in Finals Mr. Péter Sziládi, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Best Memorials Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Best Memorials Runner-up University of Tirana, Law Faculty, Albania

Best Oralist Runner-up Mr. Levente Szegedi, University of Szeged


Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary University of Tirana, Law Faculty, Albania University of Bucharest Faculty of Law, Romania

The third annual North East Europe Regional Rounds, hosted in partnership with Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Centre for democracy and rule of law, took place in Kyiv from the 14 to the 16 December, 2018.Overall Winner Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine

Runner-up Belarusian State University, Belarus

Best Oralist in Finals Tetiana Avdieieva, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Best Memorials University of Latvia, Latvia


Belarusian State University, Belarus National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine University of Latvia, Latvia


The seventh annual Americas Regional Rounds, hosted in partnership with the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School (University of Pennsylvania), will take place from 31 January to 3 of February, 2019 at Cardozo School of Law in New York.Overall Winner York University Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada

Runner-up Brooklyn Law School, USA

Best Oralist in Finals Sarah Adams, Brooklyn Law School, USA

Best Memorials University of São Paulo Faculty of Law, Brazil

Best Memorials Runner-up York University Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada

Best Oralist Sarah Adams, Brooklyn Law School, USA

Best Oralist Runner-up Matthew McLean, York University Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada


Brooklyn Law School, USA Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada

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The seventh annual Middle East Regional Rounds, hosted in partnership with Faculty of Law, British University in Cairo, took place from 3 to 7 of February, 2019 at British University in Cairo.

Overall Winner Cairo University, Egypt

Runner-up The British University, Egypt

Best Oralist in Finals Ahmed Sheir, the British University, Egypt

Best Memorials Cairo University, Egypt

Best Memorials Runner-up Ain Shams University, Egypt

Best Oralist Leila Khaled, The British University, and Sara Zaki, Cairo University

Best Oralist Runner-up Meshleen Deeik, Birzet University and Youssef Youssry, The British University


Birzet University, Palestine Cairo University, Egypt Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon The British University, Egypt

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The seventh Afghanistan Media Law Moot Court Competition also called the Afghanistan National Rounds took place in Kabul from 23 – 26 June 2018.

Overall Winner Paktia University

Runner-up Takhar University

Best Memorials Paktia University

Best Oralis Najibullah Rassoly from Ghazni University, Shukria from Kunduz University and Wahidullah from Takhar University

Best Oralist in FinalsAbdul Nasir Qasimi from Paktia University

Spirit of the Competition Rounds Faryab University

Other participating teams

Ghazni UniversityKonduz UniversityParwan UniversityPanjsher University

The second Africa Regional Round, hosted in partnership with University of Johannesburg, South Africa took place from 14 to 16 February, 2019 in Johannesburg.

Overall Winner University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Runner-up Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe

Best Memorials University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Best Oralist in Finals Takudzwa Dende, University of Johannesburg


Great Zimbabwe University, ZimbabweKenyatta University, KenyaUniversity of Johannesburg, South AfricaUniversity of Zimbabwe, ZimbabweUniversity of Witwatersrand, South Africa

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Overall WinnerUniversity of San Carlos, Philippines

Overall Winner Runner-UpSingapore Management University, Singapore

Semi-Finalists (in alphabetical order)

National Law University, Delhi, India

Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, India

Quarter-Finalists (in alphabetical order)

Brooklyn Law School, USA

Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada

University of Malaya, Malaysia

University of Oxford, UK

Octo-Finalists (in alphabetical order)

Belarusian State University, Belarus

Eötvös Loránd University, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

National Law University, Odisha, India

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Best OralistMs Mariia Novikova, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Best Oralist Runner-UpMs Stephanie Marie Abigail Olea, University of San Carlos

Top Oralists3rd Ms Shreya Tewari, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab

4th Mr Mark Lawrence Badayos, University of San Carlos

4th Ms Grace Goh, Singapore Management University

5th 6th Mr Shaun Ou, Singapore Management University

6th Ms Suan Cui Lee, University of Malaya

7th Mr Jack Collins, University of Technology, Sydney

8th Ms Valerie Chee, University of Oxford

9th Mr Stefan Despot, University of Belgrade

10th Mr. Raghav Mendiratta, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab

Best Oralist in the FinalMs Grace Goh, Singapore Management University

Best MemorialsNational Law University, Delhi, India

Singapore Management University, Singapore

Best Memorials Runners-UpNational University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine

Jonathan Blake Spirit of the Competition AwardHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

The Catholic University of Eastern Africa,Kenya

Note: Results from previous years Price Moot Court Regional Rounds are available at www.pricemootcourt.socleg.ox.ac.uk

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INTERNATIONAL ROUNDS 2018

Singapore Management University, Singapore Mr Teng Sheng Saw (Coach)Ms Trishna Rajan MenonMr Kenneth Ding Chao LohMs Zixian HuangMs Claire Kai Xin NeohMs Jeanne Enchi GohMs Hui Xuan Cheang

University of Oxford, UK Mr Tom Lowenthal (Coach)Ms Riya BhattMr Justin TanMs Stephanie Bruce-SmithMr Jonas Atmaz Al-Sibaie

National University of Singapore, Singapore Mr Zhida Chen (Coach)Ms Tammie KhorMs Siew Rong Liu

City, University of London, UK Ms Francesca NichollsMs Honor FitzgeraldMs Genevieve Zingg

University of Paris Descartes, France Mr Zyad Loutfi (Coach)Ms Nicole Dika GouetcheMs Célie AllagnatMs Eszter SzaboMs Myriam DjaloMs Ariane LauwickMs Léa Chenain

Law Society of Ireland, Ireland Mr Cormac O’Culain (Coach)Ms Caoimhe HickeyMs Ciara HickeyMs Aishling MaloneMs Siofra Dowling

University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Ms Arpeeta Shams Mizan (Coach)Mr Riasat AzmiMr Md. Jahid Al MamunMr Md. Azhar Uddin BhuiyanMr Ali Mashraf

Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Ms Charlotte Blamberger (Coach)Mr Richard Großmann Mr Panagiotis AthanasiadisMr Leo LeeMs Clara RaschewskiMs Valeria Werner

University of Tehran, Iran Ms Bahareh Gholizadeh (Coach)Ms Fatemeh MansouriMr Sajjad SalekiMr Ahmad SoroushMr Farbod FirouzkouhiMs Delaram Rezaei Khonakdar

The University of Edinburgh, UK Mr Thomas Broderick (Coach)Mr Luca MontagMs Sarah Kroll Mr Juris Klavins

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Mr Willem Korthals Altes (Coach)Ms Julia van der VeenMs Sophie LemijMr Ayrin Hassani Barbaran

National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Ms Paulina Smykouskaya (Coach)Ms Alexandra SamsonovaMs Ekaterina LobyshevaMs Alfia MutygullinaMr Nikita DidenkoMs Sofya Simonaites

National Law University Odisha, India Ms Niyati Maheshwari Ms Amruta PradhanMr Omkar HemanthMs Shreya Sundararaman

Gujarat National Law University, India Mr Rushal Shah Mr Arvind PillaiMr Shamik Gupta Ms Varsha Goel

BRAC University, Bangladesh Mr S M Hasib Mahmud (Coach)Mr Bishwajit GhoshMs Mehjabin NazranaMs Sabrina JahanMs Tasnim Mehzabin AnikaMs Rubyate Jamila Manoby

Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal Ms Mamta Siwakoti (Coach)Ms Shradha KhanalMs Aarya AryalMs Babita KhanalMs Manju Bishwokarma

Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Hungary Mr Gergely Gosztonyi (Coach)Ms Nóra KissMs Dorina GyetvánMs Rebeka ErdösiMs Emese MezöMr Péter SziládiMr Attila Tatár

Law University of Bucharest, Romania Mr Stefan Bogrea (Coach)Mr Andrei UdudoiuMr Stefan IftimieMr Radu SerbanMs Cristina Maria PaladeMr Rares Farcas

University of Tirana, Law Faculty, Albania Ms Oriona Mucollari (Coach)Ms Silvana RusiMr Albi Mato Ms Luizita VodaMr Rei KalajaMs Eugerta MuçiMr Marash Logu

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PARTICIPATING TEAMS 2019Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, USA Mr Bernardo de Souza Dantas Fico (Coach)Ms Reilly FryeMs Olivia VegaMs Cynthia BiMr Thomas BarronMs Yunzi Xu

Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, Canada Mr Bruce Ryder (Coach)Mr Jonh Jastin Mr Matt McLeanMs Bailey FoxMs Alana Robert Mr James Shields

Brooklyn Law School, USA Mr Martin Rowe (Coach)Ms Sarah AdamsMs Sara-Catherine GerdesMs Veronica DunlopMs Jessica FranzettiMs Daman Kaur

Birzeit University. Palestine Mr Fuad Masa’d (Coach)Ms Hanan Shihab ShehadeMs Micheline DeeikMs Rania Qadi

Cairo University, Egypt Ms Lobna Emad Mohamed AbdelAziz (Coach)Mr Omar Hassan Borhamy AlfadalyMs Sara Hatem Mostafa Zaki TahaMs Noura Amr Ibrahim Allam

Ms Nourmeen Mohamed Taha Mohamed RashwanMs Dina Mohamed Mohamed Hamdy Afefy SalamaMs Habiba Mohamed Abdelfattah Mohamed Awad

The British University, Egypt Mr Abdelrahman Gamal (Coach)Ms Mariam AboelmagdMr Youssef YoussryMs Laila KhaledMr Ahmed ShaeirMr Mohammed Essam Shehata

The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), Lebanon Ms Marianne Hanna (Coach)Ms Nadine MoubarakMs Joanne KhoueiryMr Charbel AwaidaMr Mahir Ornek

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine Ms Diana Pysarenko (Coach)Ms Yuliia PidlisnaMs Valeriia TurchykMs Anna IliashenkoMs Bogdana Kharchuk

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Mr Maksym Dvorovyi (Coach)Ms Tetiana AvdieievaMs Lidiia VolkovaMs Oksana IhnatenkoMr Roman Tokaryk

University of Latvia, Latvia Mr Artu

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Ms Maira PuzuleMs Anna Patricija MalereMs Ieva SnepsteMr Gunvaldis Leitens

Belarusian State University, Belarus Mr Paolo Marshyn (Coach)Mr Stanislav LashkevichMs Krystsina UsachykMs Olga OpimakhMs Iryna HalubichMs Anastasiya Verbanovich

University of Malaya, MalaysiaMr Raphael Kok (Coach)Mr Kai Sheng NeohMs Hui Jun HongMs Christina Erin Ong

Lyceum of the Philippines University, Philippines Mr Gil Anthony Aquino (Coach)Mr Saddam Hussein BaltMr Mohammad Ali BantaoMr Christopher AlcantaraMr Junnel GrospeMs Andrea Lauren Cabreros

University of the Philippines, PhilippinesMr Nicholas Felix Ty (Coach)Mr Mark Xavier LibardoMs Julienne Angela del RosarioMs Marijo Angela ConejeroMr Raymond Joseph GarciaMs Julia Alexandra Chu

University of International Business and Economics, China Mr Wei MouMs Mengyao XuMs Xiaohan RenMs Chunxian LyuMr Guannan Su

Kenyatta University, KenyaMr Gibson Nyamato (Coach)Ms Anne Njoroge Ms Beatrice Ngunyi

University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Ms Shandré Smith Ms Sophie SmitMr Anathi CanhamMs Nobuhle Kunene

University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Mr Tarisai Mutangi (Coach)Mr Nathanael Kudzai ManjoroMs Farai Linda Chinyama

University of Johannesburg, South Africa Ms Nomathole Nhlapo (Coach)Ms Ropafadzo Maphosa Mr Takudzwa Dende Ms Alysha Wolfaardt Mr Louis Koen Ms Ntokozo Sobikwa

Great Zimbabwe University, ZimbabweMr Zvobgo Tawanda Zvobgo (Coach)Ms Bernadette MazambaniMs Mbalenhle Violet Mwase

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Julie Aasand Julie is an assistant attorney in the litigation department at the Danish law firm Bruun & Hjejle. She holds a Master’s degree in law at Copenhagen University - January 2019. Julie was a participant in the moot court in 2016 and student judge in last year's competition (2018). She is Coach of the Club Lannung team in the Nordic Moot Court Competition in Human Rights.

Aly Abdel BaryAly is an Assistant Lecturer of Public International Law at Ain Shams University-Faculty of Law, Egypt. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degrees from Ain Shams University (English Section). Mr. AbdelBary was the coach of Ain Shams University team that won Egypt's Jessup Moot Court competition 2019 national rounds, and lead the team to the international rounds in Washington D.C. Currently, Mr. AbdelBary teaches Public International Law and International Organizations’ Law at Ain Shams University besides pursuing his PhD degree. His main research interests are Public International Law, Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law.

Nadia Abu Alia Nadia is a law school graduate from Birzeit University, Palestine. She currently works as a legal and regulatory specialist at Ooredoo Palestine. Formerly, she worked as a legal researcher at The Institute of Law, Birzeit University, where she conducted research papers on the topics of International human rights, humanitarian rights, constitutional law and business law.

Nadia participated in the Oxford Price Media Moot Court competition 2017/2018 in the regional rounds. She is a member of the Junior Palestinian Legal Experts and was previously a member of the Birzeit University Chapter of the International Law Student Association (ILSA). Nadia also worked as an organizer at Al-Meethaq human rights Institue, in East Jerusalem.

Omolola Agbaje-Williams Omolola has been a judge at the Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition since 2015. She was a member of the Queen Mary University of London team who were Semi-Finalists at the 2014 International Rounds. Lola is a specialist in Media, Entertainment and Intellectual Property Law. She was the recipient of the 2014 IBA Scholarship in the Intellectual Property, Communication and Technology section, and is a member of the section’s Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law Committee. Lola holds an LLM degree in Intellectual Property Law from Queen Mary University of London. She is called to the Nigerian Bar and is a Senior Consultant for leading media and entertainment firms, IP owners and technology-based business start-ups in Africa on business and intellectual property law matters.

Oyindamola Duntoye Adekunle Oyindamola is a barrister and solicitor at law, in Nigeria. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2010. He currently works at the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organization as the Personal Assistant to the Director General of the campaign organization in Abuja, Nigeria.

Ayushi Agarwal Ayushi is currently reading for the BCL as a Weidenfeld-Hoffmann scholar at the University of Oxford. She completed her undergraduate studies in law at National Law School, Bangalore, India in 2018. Her academic interest primarily lies in human rights, equality law, constitutional law and international law. She has vast mooting experience--having won several individual and team awards, including 'Best Speaker' and 'Best Team' at two Indian moot competitions, 'Best Defence Counsel-Team' at the International Criminal Court moot competition, The Hague in 2017, and most recently, having won 'Best Team' as well as 'Best Speaker Finals' at the Blackstone Human Rights moot competition at Oxford in February, 2019.

Nikita Aggarwal Nikita is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on the interaction of law and emerging technologies, with a particular interest in the regulatory challenges arising from Big Data and machine learning. Prior to this, she was an attorney in the legal department of the International Monetary Fund, where she advised on financial and fiscal law reform and worked extensively on initiatives to reform the legal and policy frameworks for sovereign debt restructuring. She previously practiced as a solicitor with Clifford Chance LLP, where she specialized in EU financial regulation and sovereign debt restructuring. She earned her LLB (Hons) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Monir Ahmadi Monir has worked for a range of national and international institutions including Internews, Democracy International, Afghanistan Journalists Safety Committee, National Radio-Television Afghanistan, Information Commission, Law weekly and several other academic institutions. He has considerable experience in media development, media regulation, and advocacy for freedom of expression/information. He specializes in media law, particularly freedom of expression/information. He holds a master’s degree in international law and is currently Media Law and Policy Program Manager at Internews and Legal Trainer at Afghanistan Bar Association. Monir coordinates the Oxford-Price Media Law Moot Court Competition for Afghanistan and has initiated several media law initiatives including Afghanistan's Media Law and Policy Summer School, and Research Programs. He has launched several media law clinics in Afghanistan universities since 2015. Mr. Ahmadi has actively contributed in capacity building efforts in media and telecom sector of Afghanistan. He has also worked with CLD to organize advanced level media law, right to information law ToTs for journalists, media workers, civil society activists and academics in Afghanistan. As a mentor/adviser, Monir has successfully led several Price Media Law Mooting teams for mooting competitions in different regions. He is author of two books, “Freedom of Expression” and “Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Crime", and of several articles and policy notes.

Thiago Alves Pinto Thiago holds an LLB (Hons.) from Centro Universitário Curitiba (Brazil) and a Master's Degree in International Human Rights Law from Åbo Akademi University (Finland). He is currently in the fourth year of his DPhil in Law at the University of Oxford, researching on the topic of offence to religious belief in International Human Rights Law. Thiago has been actively involved with NGOs and international organisations, having worked with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief and at the International Organization for Migration on human rights projects. In 2015, he co-authored the UNESCO report: “Countering Online Hate Speech”. Thiago has been judging regional and international rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court since 2015.

Sophie Argent Sophie was called to the Bar in 2007 and cross qualified to become a solicitor in 2012. Since 2013, she has been a lawyer in Channel 4's Legal and Compliance Department. In her role, she has advised on a variety of award winning programmes for the channel on issues such as defamation, privacy, contempt of court in addition to Ofcom regulations and other ethical issues associated with making and broadcasting programmes. Prior to joining Channel 4, Sophie worked for Ofcom adjudicating on fairness and privacy cases. Sophie also has a keen interest in international human rights and assists with drafting interventions in relation to countries where human rights of lawyers and human rights defenders are being violated. She is currently studying part time for an LLM in International Human Rights Law with the University of London.

Aparajita AryaAparajita is a postgraduate student in the Bachelor of Civil Law programme at the University of Oxford. Prior to Oxford, she was at the University of Edinburgh, where she obtained her LLB degree. She also holds a BA in English Literature from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, India. She’s been associated with Price Moot as a participant in the International Rounds in 2017 and 2018.

Keith Ashby Keith acts for the Independent Press Standards Organisation, the regulator of the newspaper and magazine industry in the UK, and previously acted for the Press Complaints Commission. Keith represented witnesses in module 1 (the Press and the Public) and module 3 (the Press and Politicians) in the Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press. In his report, Lord Justice Leveson described the submission prepared by Keith as a tour de force. He has contributed articles, on a variety of subjects, to The Times, New Law Journal, Civil Justice Quarterly and the Times Literary Supplement.

Saba Ashraf Saba qualified as a solicitor in 2013 and joined MLDI in 2018. She previously practised in the areas of criminal defence, extradition and civil litigation. Prior to that Saba worked on cases involving international human rights law and public law as well as litigating and advocating on various criminal defence and extradition cases before courts in the UK. She has interned at Reprieve, assisting in their death penalty work in the MENA region. Saba holds a BSc and LLB and is fluent in Urdu and conversational in Arabic.

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Saphié Ashtiany Saphié is a leading employment and equality lawyer in the UK, and a Visiting Professorial Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, where she is undertaking research on subject relating to the Equality Act and Non-Disclosure Agreements. She is currently Chair of the Equal Rights Trust and also of the Nationwide Foundation.

David Attfield David is a respected media lawyer with over 20 years of experience gained in leading law firms and at the BBC in London. Since 2014, David has headed the BBC’s Programme Legal Advice Department which gives pre-publication advice across the BBC’s output including on programmes such as Panorama. Prior to his current role, David worked in the BBC’S Litigation Department, defending the corporation in substantial libel claims (Mori v BBC; Taranissi v BBC) and acting in leading cases concerning open justice and the independence of journalists. David’s private practice experience was gained at Hogan Lovells and Olswang where he acted for national newspapers and corporations on media matters. David is a committee member of the Media Lawyers Association.

Rahul Bajaj Rahul as a BCL student at the University of Oxford as Rhodes Scholar. Prior to arriving in Oxford, Rahul worked at one of India's leading commercial law firms, in the dispute resolution vertical. His key areas of interest are intellectual property law, constitutional law and disability rights law.

Rob Balin Rob is a media law partner at Davis Wright Tremaine in New York. For three decades Rob has been providing courtroom representation and media law counselling to news organizations, broadcasters, publishers, journalists and NGOs on matters involving freedom of expression, libel, privacy and copyright. Rob co-chairs the International Bar Association’s Media Law Committee and frequently writes on international media law issues. He also teaches media law to the next generation as an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School. Rob currently serves as a board member of the Media Law Resource Center’s Defense Counsel Section. He is also a board member of the MLRC Institute and immediate past chair of the MLRC International Media Law Committee.

Clive Baldwin Clive is Senior Legal Advisor of Human Rights Watch. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 2007, Clive practiced law with the human rights law firm, Bindman and Partners, worked on European human rights litigation at the AIRE Centre, working for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Kosovo, and served as the Head of Advocacy for Minority Rights Group International.

Prashanta Bhushon BaruaPrashanta is an advocate in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, educated in the University of Dhaka and Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Mr Barua has been a legal academic in the UK, India and Bangladesh for last 15 years. He served debating and mooting competitions in regional and global level as adjudicator and judge for last 18 years. Mr Barua adjudicated Worlds Universities debating championship in 2001 (Glasgow),

Cambridge IV 2004 ( Cambridge), Price media law mooting South Asian round 2011 ( Delhi), University of London West African mooting championship 2016 ( Ghana), Prof N R Madhab Menon SAARC mooting championship 2016, 2017,2019, Human Rights summer school mooting 2012, 2013 ( Dhaka), Commonwealth Legal Education Association ( CLEA) mooting Asia round 2018 ( Joipur, India). He served Bangladesh National Television (BTV) as Director, debate between 1997 and 2001. Mr Barua is currently a media law practitioner in the Supreme Court as well as a legal academic in the area of Human Rights, constitutional law and media freedom. Alongside court practice and academic activism, Mr Barua holds a deep interest in comparative legal history and political landscape of the constitutions in the Indian Sub Continent.

Tahir Basheer Tahir is a digital entertainment lawyer and Partner at leading media and entertainment law firm Sheridans. Having come from a background helping music, fashion and beauty talent/businesses together with entertainment technology businesses, he is often sought out by business founders and decision-making boards on complex legal/commercial decisions and strategies. He also acts for a range of digital talent across various niches from some of the world’s largest influencers through to a number of up and coming stars. He founded the firm's Technology practice and heads up the firm's Social Media and Branding practice. He is an adviser for a number of boards for both start-up companies and charities and is a member of the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers and has been a faculty lecturer at Berklee College of Music and a guest lecturer at Kings College London.

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Joel Basoga Joel is qualified as an advocate of the High Court in Uganda. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL. B) from the Uganda Christian University. Following this, he obtained the Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (Professional Bar training course) from the Law Development Centre. He is a member of the Uganda Law Society and the East Africa Law Society. He is currently pursuing the BCL at Jesus College, University of Oxford. He previously coordinated a Uganda national program, “Strengthening the Capacity for Local Courts” as a Consultant and Program Coordinator at the International law Institute (African Centre for Legal Excellence). Joel also worked as graduate lawyer in the Department of Legal and Legislative Services of the Parliament of the Republic of Uganda and with two commercial law firms in Uganda. Joel previously participated in the African Human Rights Moot 2013 and the Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot 2015.

Gautam Bhatia Gautam is a D.Phil (Law) candidate at the University of Oxford. After completing his BCL and M.Phil from Oxford (2011 - 2013) and LLM from Yale Law School (2014), he practiced law for four years in India. He is the author of Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Freedom of Speech under the Indian Constitution (OUP 2015) and The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts (Harper 2019). His work has been cited by the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Kerala.

Mr. Wan Mohd Asnur Bin Wan Jantan Wan is currently a Doctoral Researcher on International Framework for Islamic Finance at the University of Leeds, UK. He previously worked as Senior

Federal Counsel at the International Affairs Division of the Attorney General’s Chambers, Malaysia. His practice area is public international law, specialising in international economic law, trade, investment, and maritime. His experience spans across treaty negotiations and handling international dispute cases such as investor-State-dispute under the auspices of ICSID, and state-to-state arbitration cases. Following his works on the development of a legal framework to implement the ASEAN Single Window, he was invited as an International Expert by the UNESCAP to present his work. Mr. Asnur graduated from the Wharton School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2012 where he studied as J. William Fulbright Scholar. He also judged the White & Case International Round for the Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition in Washington D.C, FDI Skadden Moot, William C. Vis Moot and WTO Moot Court Competitions.

Jon Blake Jon is a communications and media lawyer at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. He practiced in that field for over 50 years, headed the firm’s practice group in this field for several decades, was President of the Federal Communications Bar Association, served as Chairman of the Firm’s management committee for six years and was named to the list of American outstanding lawyers in that field and more generally over a period of several years. His practice included legislation, agency rulemakings and adjudications, major court cases, deal making and strategic advice. It also included advising foreign governments on their media and communications issues. He helped pioneer digital television for which the group received an Oscar and mobile phone services. He represents

the Public Broadcasting Service and has taught classes at various American law schools. Jon has served as a judge for the Price Moot Courts in Oxford, New Delhi and Cairo. The Spirit of the Competition Award is named in his honour.

Sarah Branthwaite Sarah is an experienced media lawyer working in the BBC’s Programme Legal Advice Department which she joined in August 2015. She gives pre-broadcast advice across the BBC’s output including BBC News and current affairs including the Victoria Derbyshire programme, consumer series such as You and Yours and Rogue Traders, documentaries including The Met: Policing London and comedy including Have I Got News for You. Sarah also advises in relation to reporting restriction challenges, protection of sources and Terrorism Act disclosures.

Jason Brickhill Jason is a human rights law lawyer in practice in South Africa and a DPhil student in the Law Faculty of the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the impact of public interest litigation in South Africa. He is also Research Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. He holds an LLB degree from the University of Cape Town and an MSt in international human rights law from the University of Oxford. After obtaining his law degree, Jason served as law clerk to Justice Kate O’Regan at the South African Constitutional Court. He has subsequently practised as an attorney (solicitor) and advocate (barrister) at the Johannesburg Bar. Until 2016, Jason was the Director of the Constitutional Litigation Unit of the Legal Resources Centre, a leading South African public interest law firm. As an advocate, Jason appeared in the High Court, Supreme Court of Appeal and

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Constitutional Court of South Africa as well as the Supreme Court of Namibia. He has over 70 reported judgments, mostly in constitutional law and human rights law matters. Jason has published widely in constitutional law and human rights law. His latest book is Public Interest Litigation in South Africa (2018). He teaches human rights law at the University of Oxford at undergraduate and masters’ level. Jason was coach of the Oxford team in the Mandela World Human Rights Moot in 2017, the team finishing second in oral rounds. He has judged in several moot competitions, including the Blackstone Human Rights Law Moot, the South African Child Law Moot and the Price Moot itself.

Persephone Bridgman Baker Persephone has worked on pre-publication and post-publication matters against a number of publishers including The Daily Mail and Mail Online, The Guardian, The Times and Express Newspapers, in a wide variety of divergent subject areas including entertainment, politics, healthcare, and anti-terrorism. She regularly secures the withdrawal or amendment of articles or broadcast publications before they are released, often working closely with client’s public relations advisors to respond effectively to journalists. Persephone also libel reads autobiographical manuscripts pre-publication. Persephone was twice featured as the Law Society Gazette’s ‘Lawyer in the News’ for her representation of Lance Bombardier Kerry-Ann Morris, who received a public apology and compensation in a defamation claim against a Trinity Mirror Group publisher, and for her representation of Richard Burgon MP in his successful libel claim against The Sun.

Ian Burton Ian is Senior Counsel in the International Litigation Team at Google. He works on key litigation cases across Europe and Asia, many of which focus on the rights of internet users to receive and impart information and ideas. Prior to joining Google in 2011, he served as Senior Litigation Counsel at Nokia, and as an Associate at London-based, IP Specialists, Bristows. Ian was called to the Bar of England & Wales in 1994, and is now a practising solicitor in England & Wales and in Ireland.

Victor Cabezas Victor is an attorney at Law having graduated from Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador. He is currently an LLM student at Universidad Externado de Colombia. Victor specialized in International Human Rights Law and International Labor Law. He is an associate at Jaramillo Davila Abogados, an editorialist at various newspapers, and a radio and TV producer.

Ailidh Callendar Ailidh is a Scots Law qualified solicitor with Privacy International and is responsible for our legal advocacy on data protection. She also leads Privacy International's global legal research with our partners. Prior to joining Privacy International, Ailidh worked in private practice advising a range of clients on parliamentary and public law. Ailidh also has a background in human rights law having spent time at the Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica. Ailidh received her LLB in Law and Spanish and Diploma in Professional Legal Practice from the University of Edinburgh.

Damian Carney Damian is currently Senior Lecturer in Media Law at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) at Cardiff University. A qualified barrister, he has written extensively on issues regarding journalists' sources and anonymity, media ethics and regulation. He is completing a monograph on the protection of journalists' sources. His publications often use comparative methods, and the monograph is the first attempt to provide a critical and comparative academic account of the legal protections afforded to journalists' anonymous sources.

Viviane Carvalho Viviane holds a Bachelors in Law (first class) Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Brazil, and an LL.M in Environmental Law from SOAS - University of London. She was called to the Brazilian Bar Association (Rio de Janeiro) in 1999. Viviane is a Public Attorney for the Government of Rio de Janeiro. She currently specialises in public interest litigation, monitoring a multi-disciplinary team in both extra-judicial and judicial tasks, fostering human rights awareness by assisting minority groups. She worked as an international corporate lawyer,and has also been actively volunteering for international NGO’s on a number of projects. She was given the distinguished delegation award while representing SOAS - University of London at NMUN - National Model United Nations Conference 2015, in New York. She served as a judge for the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition in 2016, at the international rounds. Viviane is the author of 'The Clash between the Public Interest in Environmental Protection and the Self-Interest of International Investors: Evidence from the Nigerian Oil Spills', published by the Queen Mary Law Journal in 2017.


Paolo Cavaliere Paolo joined the University of Edinburgh Law School in September 2014. I research on and teach courses in freedom of expression, media law and communications law. Further to his academic activity, he has provided expertise on telecommunications and media law to a range of NGOs and international organisations, including the African Union's Mission to Somalia and the Council of Europe among others.

Samuel Chau Samuel participated as an oralist in the 12th Willem C. Vis (East) International Arbitration Moot. His team came 1st Runner-Up for Best Claimant Memoranda. He is pursuing Master's in law and Finance (MLF) at the University of Oxford.

Dr. Ge Chen Ge is assistant professor in Chinese Law and co-director of the Centre for Chinese Law and Policies at the Durham Law School. He is the author of Copyright and International Negotiations. He received his doctorate in law from the University of Göttingen. Dr. Chen held the post of Postdoctoral Research Associate in Intellectual Property and Global Regulation at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, and Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge. He was Visiting Academic of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy of the University of Oxford. He was a Konrad Adenauer scholar at the University of Göttingen. He was a senior legal expert at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. He has advised the Chinese and European governments on egal projects under the Sino-EU-Dialogue of the State of Rule of Law. Dr. Chen has published op-ed.

articles in media outlets such as Oxford Human Rights Hub, Cambridge Core Blog, YaleGlobal Online, The Diplomat, ChinaFile, South China Morning Post, and Die Zeit. In 2016, he was reported as one of five prominent “Chinese living in Germany” for their “creativity and engagement”.

Siyuan Chen Siyuan is an Associate Professor of Law with SMU specialising in evidence and procedural law. He has published in journals such as the International Journal of Evidence & Proof and Civil Justice Quarterly. Recent book publications include The Law of Evidence in Singapore (Sweet & Maxwell: 2018), Civil Procedure in Singapore (Wolters Kluwer: 2018), and Family Law Procedure in Singapore (LexisNexis: 2018). At NUS, Siyuan was part of the 2007 Jessup team that placed in the top three for the international rounds. He started the moot programme in SMU in 2010 and since then SMU has been to almost 50 international championship finals, including the Jessup (2013, 2014), Vis (2015, 2016), Vis East (2015, 2016), Price (2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), and International Criminal Court (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), and Frankfurt (2015, 2017) competitions.

Grace Cheng Grace is a barrister and qualified solicitor. She worked as an Associate at Slaughter and May, where she assisted with high-profile international commercial transactions and advised clients including the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Moody’s, MTR Corporation Limited, Prada and Standard Chartered plc. She has taught law at undergraduate level at the University of Oxford, King’s College London, and the University of Warwick and was a Visiting Professor at the National Taiwan University.

Grace was judicial assistant to the Honourable Mr Justice Blair when he was the Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court, and assisted Professor Ewan McKendrick with the latest edition of Goode on Commercial Law. She has published articles in leading journals. Grace obtained a First Class Honours degree in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Bachelor of Civil Law postgraduate degree from the University of Oxford. She was the mooting coach for the University of Oxford’s Price Media Law Moot Court team in 2016 and a judge in the final international rounds of the competition in 2018.

Antonina Cherevko Antonina is a Law Reform Adviser with the International Media Support (IMS). She has been with IMS since 2008 leading programmes and initiatives in Eastern Europe. Cherevko is an experienced human rights lawyer with a deep knowledge of the Eurasia politics and media sector. She is a member of the Independent Media Council in Ukraine. Cherevko has over 13 years of professional experience in international development field, and before IMS she worked with IREX and OSCE in Kyiv, Ukraine. She was a participant in the 2010 Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute and performed as one of the judges at the oral rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition throughout 2011-2018. Cherevko holds an MA in Law from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine and MSt in International Human Rights Law from theUniversity of Oxford. Cherevko speaks fluent English, Ukrainian, and Russian, communicates in French, and understands Belarusian and Polish.

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Johann-Jakob Chervet Johann-Jakob graduated in the summer of 2018 from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) with an LLB in civil and ecclesiastical law (summa cum laude). In the fall of 2018 Johann-Jakob started reading for an MJur at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he has focused mainly on issues of Human Rights, International Law and Legal Theory. Besides these fields, his interests lie mainly at the intersection of torts and train law as well as in states of exception.

Rowena Cordrey Rowena is a media lawyer and the Deputy Head of Compliance at ITN. ITN is an independent production company which makes the news for Channel 4, ITV and Channel 5 as well as production content for broadcasters and streaming services like Amazon and Netflix. Rowena trained and qualified at Farrer & Co LLP. At Farrers, Rowena primarily acted for and defended tabloid newspapers (such as the then News of the World and The Sun). She subsequently went onto work for the BBC in their Litigation Team and then joined Channel 4, working as a programme lawyer on programmes such as 24 Hours in A&E, Gogglebox, Hunted and the current affairs strand Dispatches. She joined ITN in January 2018.

Nuala Cosgrove Nuala is the Legal Director at the UK communications regulator, Ofcom. Prior to joining Ofcom in January 2009, Nuala was the Editorial Legal Director at The Guardian.

Rachael Craufurd Smith Rachael is a reader in media law at the University of Edinburgh. She previously worked as an adviser on European affairs for the BBC and has participated in a number of European projects, most recently with her colleague Dr Paolo Cavaliere on the EU-funded Media Pluralism Monitor. She teaches courses in media and advertising law and has a long running interest in the regulation of culture and the culture industries.

Rogier Creemers Rogier is an Assistant Professor in the Law and Governance of China at Leiden University. He holds Master degrees in China Studies and International Relations, and a Doctorate in Law. His research investigates China’s domestic technology policies, as well as China’s participation in global cyber affairs. His work has been published, amongst others, in The China Journal and the Journal of Contemporary China. He is the leader of two major projects funded by the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is also a founding member of DigiChina, a project run in cooperation with New America, as well as a frequent contributor to international news media.

Richard Danbury Richard practised, briefly, as a criminal barrister at 9-12 Bell Yard, before spending a decade at the BBC, working mainly in TV news and current affairs, including extended periods on Newsnight and Panorama. He was the Deputy Editor of the BBC’s 2010 Prime Ministerial Debate. He was a fellow of Oxford University's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, before embarking on a masters and a doctorate which studied the position of institutional journalism

and journalists in English law, both from a doctrinal and theoretical point of view. He continues to be interested both in the legal position of the institutional media, and in questions of comparative freedom of speech, privacy, and intellectual property, particularly in an on-line environment, both in respect of the institutional media and more generally. To this end, he has been a researcher on the Ranking Digital Rights project, and a post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge University’s Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL). He is the principal lecturer in the Channel 4 MA in investigative journalism at De Montfort University in Leicester. He remains a consultant at Oxford’s Programme for Comparative Media Law and Policy, and an associate of CIPIL at Cambridge.

Atrayee DeAtrayee is currently pursuing a BCL from the University of Oxford. Prior to this, she completed a graudate degree in law from India. Atrayee has always had an inclination towards exploring various areas of law and therefore actively participated in moot courts and research work. She has judged moot courts before and is looking forward to judging this one as well.

Claire de Than Claire is a Professor of Law and Director of Studies of the Institute of Law, Jersey, and a Jersey Law Commissioner. A senior academic of more than 20 years’ standing, she has over 80 legal publications in total, including 15 books, chapters in leading legal monographs and edited collections, such as Reed and Bohlander, Substantive Issues in Criminal Law (Ashgate, 2011) and articles in a variety of national and international journals, including the Criminal Law Review and the Modern Law Review. Her research fields include

criminal law, human rights law, media law, and disability law. She has been an expert for the Law Commission of England and Wales on recent projects. She has advised several governments and many organisations on criminal law, human rights and law reform issues, with specialisms in the laws of British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

Fabian Eichberger Fabian is a Public International Lawyer trained in Hamburg and Tokyo. He is reading for the Magister Juris on DAAD and Latham & Watkins Scholarships. He took part in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court German National 2016 and was Best Oralist of the National Final, he judged in the German National Rounds 2019. Fabian’s internship and assistantship positions include: the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge; the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public and International Law, Heidelberg; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Frankfurt; German Embassy, Washington, D.C.; the European Parliament, Brussels; Federal Ministry of Justice, Berlin.

Francesca Fanucci Francesca is an Italian and British lawyer specialised in freedom of expression and comparative media law. She is a a senior legal advisor to the European Center for Not-For-Profit Law, a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Media, Data and Society, School of Public Policy, Central European University and a member of Internews’ Internet Freedom Register. She was a member of the Friedrich Ebert Stifting Expert Group on Safeguarding Democracy in EU Member States, for which she authored the essay, “Media Capture and Disinformation: The EU’s Role in Preserving Media Freedom and

Pluralism” as part of “The other democratic deficit : A toolbox for the EU to safeguard democracy in member states” (FES, 2018). She has consulted, inter alia, for ARTICLE 19, the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Expression, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association, the Open Society Foundations Justice Initiative and Media Program, the International Press Institute, Access Info Europe and International Media Support. Francesca has also been a legal analyst and researcher in corporate law for global and European public affairs consultancies in Europe, North and West Africa, the United States and South America.

Chiara Garafoli Chiara is currently a Senior Counsel at Google working in the International Litigation Team. Over the past few years, she has worked on many high profile cases at the intersection of fundamental rights and ISP liability' rules in jurisdictions as diverse as France, Russia, Turkey, Poland, Netherlands and the UK. Chiara is also frequently involved in regulatory matters. She joined Google in 2011 after spending 9 years in private practice, where she mainly worked in the area of Intellectual Property and Data Protection. She qualified in 2006 as "avvocato" in Italy and holds law degrees from the University of Cambridge (LL.M., 2005) and Pavia, Italy (summa cum laude, 2002). She is a regular speaker at international legal conferences (IBA Annual Conference 2018, Rights Con 2016) and a guest lecturer at Law Schools and legal professional training courses.

Nazila Ghanea Nazila is an Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford and serves as a member of the OSCE Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief and on the Board of Governors of the Universal Rights Group. She has authored, co-authored publications including the prize winning Oxford University Press publication (with Bielefeldt and Weiner) Freedom of Religion or Belief: An International Law Commentary, the Bloomsbury publication (with Weller, Kingsley and Cheruvallil-Contractor Religion or Belief, Discrimination and Equality: Britain in Global Contexts and the Martinus Nijhoff/George Ronald publication Human Rights, the UN and the Bahá’ís in Iran; and a number of journal articles for example those with the Human Rights Quarterly, the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. She has served as an Expert for the United Nations on many an occasion and has particularly addressed the intersection of freedom of expression with freedom of religion or belief and minority rights.

Clive Gringras Clive is Head of Technology, Media and Telecommunications at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP. A coder of a best-selling computer game, “Elite” for Acorn RISC computers, and author of all three editions of The Laws of the Internet, Clive combines this deep, practical expertise with twenty-years of practicing technology law advising the likes of Microsoft on a variety of contentious and non-contentious matters.


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Olga Grygorovska Olga is working as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She was a member of the Queen Mary Octo-Finalist team at the Oxford University Monroe E.Price Media Law Moot Court Competition 2016 and has been coming as a judge ever since. Before moving to France Olga worked as a legal intern at the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre whilst reading for the LLM degree in Human Rights Law at the Queen Mary University of London. She has previously worked for the Ukrainian Government Agent before the European Court of Human Rights and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). She has been a reporter on international human rights law for Oxford University Press. Olga is interested in implications of emerging technologies for human rights, particularly digital privacy.

Gehan Gunatilleke Gehan is a DPhil student in law at the University of Oxford, and a researcher at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. His doctoral research focuses on state authority to restrict the freedom of expression under international law. Prior to commencing his DPhil, Gehan practiced law in Sri Lanka. He was also a Research Director at Verité Research, an independent think tank based in Colombo, and an advisor to Sri Lanka's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Neerja Gurnani Neerja is an Indian lawyer and Salve Scholar, she is reading for the MPhil in Law at the University of Oxford, after having completed the BCL.

She describes herself as a moot court enthusiast, having participated in various moots, including Price Media, as a competitor, judge and organiser. Her research is on biometric databases and their potential infringement of human rights.

Vicky Handal Vicky is a fourth year law student at Birzeit University. Vicky participated in the Price Media Law moot court Oxford competition, Middle East regional rounds of the year 2017/2018 as member of Birzeit University's team. She also participated in the Model European Union of Mainz held in Germany in the summer of 2018 and has been an organizer for the Price Media Middle East regional rounds held in Cairo for the year 2018/2019. She is currently an Intern at the Institute of Law in Birzeit University and has worked with different legal experts in the West Bank drafting legal and position papers for the institute.

Sherif Nagy Harb Sherif graduated in 2016 from the Faculty of Law (English Department), Cairo University. Associate Lawyer at Harb Law Office, Specialized in Intellectual Property, Data Protection, Civil, Corporate and Media Law. Co-Founder & Head of Legal Department at The Digital Hub Agency for Media Solutions. Sherif was a Legal Counsel at Contigital Ltd. for Digital Distribution, Content and Rights Management. Preparing for LL.M in International Law from Cairo University. Member at the International Intellectual Property Law Association (IIPLA). Sherif was a participant at Price Moot Court in 2015 with Cairo University team which was qualified to the International Round at the University of Oxford, and Judged the North East European Round in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2017.

Holly Hemming Holly completed her Masters at Oxford University in 2017-18, gaining an MSc with a particular focus on human rights and criminal justice. Her thesis examined human rights approaches to the law on hate crime. Holly studied Law at the University of Cambridge (2013-16) and completed a course at Harvard University in international law, genocide and justice. She is currently qualifying as a Barrister, to practice Law in England and Wales, and intends to specialise in human rights law. Holly has reported to Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, auditing the use, display and provenance of indigenous items and property. This report has been referenced in The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Times in 2018 and 2019. She also prepared research for the Oxford-Cambridge consulting group to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on country of origin reports, examining the treatment of ethnic Mongolians in China. Holly judged some rounds in Price Media Law Moot in 2017 and intercollegiate mooting at Oxford University.

Felix Hempel Felix is a third-year PhD Candidate in Law at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He achieved his German Diploma in Law with distinction at the University of Jena in 2015. Subsequently, he was awarded an LLM in International and Commercial Business Law with distinction from UEA in 2016. After obtaining the Faculty of Social Sciences Studentship for his PhD studies, Felix has been working on his thesis since October 2016. His main research interest is in media law. His doctoral studies are concerned with comparative press, broadcast, and social media regulation. His thesis investigates the impact of the right of reply on freedom of expression

and personality rights in England, Wales, Germany, and under the European Convention on Human Rights. At UEA, Felix has taught on the undergraduate modules Media Law, Constitutional Law, and English Legal Process and been a part of the teaching team on the LLM Dissertation workshop, and the Media & Communications Module. In early 2018, he also achieved the status of Associate Fellow of The Higher Teaching Academy. Also, Felix is the co-editor of the University’s media law research blog.

Heather Jackson Heather is a Senior Lawyer at Channel 4. She works with programme makers, helping to navigate a course between adventurous broadcasting and compliance with broadcasting regulators and the law. Having spent several years as a writer/journalist, Heather qualified as a solicitor in 1994, since when she has specialised in media law. She has acted for major broadcasters, film and television producers, print and internet publishers (including national newspaper groups) principally on contentious matters. She joined Channel 4’s Legal and Compliance Department in 2002 having previously acted for it in several high profile defamation cases. At the cutting edge of the arguments about freedoms and standards, Heather says “I like to see my job as telling creative people what they can do, not what they can’t; I feel strongly about press and broadcasting freedoms, and what I enjoy is blending creative thought with legal analysis.”

Shubham Jain Shubham is an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Cambridge Trust Scholar. He received his B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from National Law School of India University, Bangalore

in 2018. He has previously clerked with Justice D.Y. Chandrachud of the Supreme Court of India. He is currently serving as an editor of the Cambridge International Law Journal. Previously, he has served as the editor-in-chief of the Socio-Legal Review and an editor of the Indian Journal of Law and Technology. His team was the 2nd Runners up at the South Asia rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition in 2014-15 and also won the prize for the Second Best Memorial. His areas of interests and engagement include commercial and investment dispute resolution, human rights, and socio-legal studies.

Kate Jones Kate is Director of the Oxford University Diplomatic Studies Programme and a member of Oxford University’s Law Faculty. She conducts teaching and research in diplomacy, public international law and human rights law. Her publications focus on counter-terrorism, human rights and sanctions law. Kate was formerly with the legal cadre of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. At the FCO she provided legal advice in London on, among other topics, human rights law, humanitarian law, diplomatic law, the law on counter-terrorism, and the law relating to the British Overseas Territories. She served in Geneva as Legal Adviser to the United Kingdom’s Mission to the United Nations and in Strasbourg as the United Kingdom’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe. She originally qualified as a commercial litigation solicitor in the City of London, and after qualification spent several months as a judicial assistant in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. She completed both undergraduate and postgraduate studies in law at Somerville College, Oxford.

Marko Juric Marko is a Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law. His academic interests include electronic media law, privacy and electronic communications, personal data protection and internet governance issues. Marko has coached his university teams at the Price media Law Moot Court in 2015 and 2016. He is currently vice-dean of the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law.

Mariyam Kamil Mariyam is a DPhil Candidate in Law at the University of Oxford. She researches on the constitutional right to privacy in India under the supervision of Professor Paul Craig. Mariyam’s MPhil thesis, also on the same topic, was cited with approval by the nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court in: KS Puttaswamy v Union of India AIR 2017 SC 4161. Her analysis of the judgment was recently published in the Indian Law Review. Mariyam holds an undergraduate degree in law from Osmania University, Hyderabad (India). In 2012, she was the law clerk to the Chief Justice of India. Subsequently, she read for the BCL at Oxford as a Felix Scholar. Mariyam also serves on the editorial board of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal and convenes the South Asian Law Discussion Group at the Oxford Law Faculty.

Mark Leiser PhD Mark is Assistant Professor at the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University.Dr Leiser’s expertise is in the regulation of the Internet. His research areas include heuristics, platform regulation, algorithmic profiling, state surveillance and cybersecurity (computational propaganda). His research focuses on implementing insights from cognitive and social psychology

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as well as behavioural economics into regulation of the online environment. In application, his work applies to the regulation of #fakenews, machine speech, and digital deception. His work has been influential in the regulation of computational propaganda. His research objective is to restore trust to the infosphere by working with industry partners and government to mitigate the effects of deceptive content and state-sponsored algorithmic-processing and automated forms of propaganda spread via bots, botnets and scripts. He won the BILETA award for Best Paper in 2014 and again in 2017. His work on the role of non-state actors in Governance of the online environment (with Professor Andrew Murray) was published in The Oxford Handbook of the Law and Regulation of Technology (eds Roger Brownsword, Eloise Scotford & Karen Yeung).

Wenlong Li Wenlong is a PhD researcher at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in European data protection and privacy law. At Edinburgh Law School, he works as a research assistant, co-lecturer and moot coach. He is also an editor of SCRIPTed and a convenor of the IP/IT/Media Law Discussion Group. Wenlong is a qualified lawyer in China and prior to his doctoral journey, he worked at Tencent Internet & Society Institute focusing on internet law and policy. He was also a research fellow at the CUPL Center of Media Law Studies where he led a research project on the right to be forgotten. He obtained both his LL.B. and LL.M. (Law and Journalism) at the University of Political Science and Law (China). Wenlong has been closely engaging with the Price Moot community as a mooter (quarter-finalist, 2014), judge (int'l round, 2016) and coach (Edinburgh, 2016-18).

Danielle Ligenza Danielle is a Public Policy Manager on the Strategic Response Product Policy Team. This team manages global escalations and participates in policy development across the suite of applications. Danielle is a member of the California Bar and previously worked as a Crisis Management attorney with Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., managing the full life-cycle of major events for their FinTech products. Danielle has also consulted with the Department of Veterans Affairs and holds a J.D. from Notre Dame Law School, and a B.A./M.A. from Boston University.

Morris Lipson Morris is a lawyer and former academic philosopher. For the last 15 years he has worked with or for foundations, including directing the Sigrid Rausing Trust, and serving as a senior lawyer for the Open Society Foundations. Over these years, he has litigated at the UN Human Rights Committee, worked with lawyers litigating freedom of expression and accountability issues, and has conducted evaluations of a range of civil society organisations and donor collaborations. Earlier, he was an appellate lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union in the United States, and before that, he taught philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley. He has a PhD in philosophy from that latter university, and a law degree from the Yale Law School.

Toyin Longe-Onafujabi Toyin is a highly skilled Legal Practitioner, with extensive professional pratice and experience in Corporate Governance; Company Law; Regulatory Compliance; and Insurance Law. She, is presently the Company Secretary and Adviser to the Board of Trustees on corporate

law at the NxG Trust in London. In her professional career and journey, she has achieved an active professional presence in International organisations within the sphere of corporate governance in England. Toyin, is a member of the International Compliance Association, England and a member of the ICSA Governance Institute, England. Toyin, has been a Judge at the international rounds of the Competion since 2016.

Essam Magdy Ibrahim Essam working as teaching assistant at Faculty of law, Arab Academy for Science and Technology AAST, Essam also works as a trainee lawyer at Al-Tamimi & Co. law firm. I am a LLM candidate at Mansoura University Egypt.

Pareemala Devi Mauree Pareemala is a senior legal professional reckoning more than 15 years practice in Mauritius with both experience on the Bench and Prosecution Service: as a Senior District Magistrate of Mauritius and Rodrigues for more than 10 years with special focus on juvenile justice, domestic violence issues and victim support; Principal State Counsel at the level of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions since December 2017. Chevening Award winner for Mauritius in 2018 in recognition of leadership potential and skills in the judicial field. Parmeela is a current UK Queen Mary Student in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution.

Joseph McAulay Joseph is currently reading Criminology and Criminal Justice at St-Hildas College as part of the University of Oxford's Centre for Criminology's MSc programme. He graduated from The University of Edinburgh's Law School with a First class

degree in 2017 and since then has worked as a research assistant on several large scale research projects for organisations such as the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom and the Oxford Pro Bono Publico legal centre. His research interests lie in legal regulation of sexuality, intimate partner violence, censorship, and the interaction between freedom of speech and violence.

Sarah McColl Sarah is a senior lawyer in the Editorial Legal team at the BBC and advises journalists and programme makers on defamation, privacy, contempt of court and other legal risks that arise in the course of broadcasting. She is the regular lawyer for Question Time and also works on a large number of documentaries and investigations which are broadcast both in the UK and internationally.

Jonathan McCully Jonathan is the Legal Adviser to the Digital Freedom Fund, an organisation that supports strategic litigation to advance digital rights in Europe. He previously held a senior legal role at the Media Legal Defence Initiative, working on strategic litigation before international, regional and domestic courts. In this role, he worked on a number of significant free speech cases, including Magyar Jeti v. Hungary (European Court of Human Rights), Butkevich v. Russia (European Court of Human Rights), Mseto v. Attorney General of Tanzania (East African Court of Justice), and Federation of African Journalists v. The Gambia (ECOWAS Court). Jonathan has published widely on freedom of expression, privacy, open justice, human rights and intellectual property. He is based in London.

Victoria McEvedy Victoria is an intellectual property and media law specialist based in London. She is acknowledged as a leading individual in Digital Media by Chambers & Partners in and her practice was recognised by IP excellence awards for its trade mark law work in 2017. She acts for claimants and defendants in trade mark, copyright, software, information and data matters and disputes and is a panelist on various domain name and media law arbitration panels. As well as contentious media law work, she provides regular pre-publication advice to various national newspapers and online publishers. She is an expert on the liability of internet intermediaries and website operators. Victoria has extensive commercial litigation and arbitration experience, and spent most of her career with first tier law firms. She is qualified in, and has practised in, a number of common law jurisdictions, including New York and Hong Kong.

Lawrence McNamara Lawrence is a Reader in Law at the University of York and Senior Research Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law. He is the author of Reputation and Defamation (Oxford University Press, 2007) and has worked on a range of research and policy projects relating to open justice, transparency and accountability in relation to national security and counter-terrorism.

Gavin Millar QC Gavin is a media law barrister. He specialises in defamation, open justice, contempt, privacy and confidentiality. He represents all of the main UK media outlets and their journalists, as well as many US publishers.

Last year he acted for the BBC in the privacy claim brought by Sir Cliff Richard.the BBC. He is a Council of Europe expert on media law. He co-authored "Media Law and Human Rights" (Oxford 2009) and "Newsgathering: Law, Regulation and the Public Interest" (Oxford 2016). He is also Recorder of the Crown Court, sitting part time as a judge in criminal jury trials.

Kaveh Moussavi Kaveh is Arbitrator, International Court of Arbitration, Paris. Founding member and former Head of Public Interest Law Program, Law Faculty, Oxford University Associate Research Fellow, Law Faculty, Oxford University. Attorney at Law.

András Mozsolits András is a recent graduate of Eötvös Loránd University. During his years at the University he developed a strong interest in international public law, and consitutional law, with a special focus on human rights. This interest was the driving force behind his participation in the Price Media Law Moot Court in 2018. His thesis was on the subject of "impact of fake news in modern media.

Harj Narulla Harj is an Australian environmental and refugee lawyer, Rhodes Scholar, policymaker and academic studying a Master of Philosophy in Law at the University of Oxford. Harj holds two graduate degrees from Oxford, recently completing the Bachelor of Civil Law and the Master of Public Policy, in addition to holding a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Arts (International Relations and Philosophy) from the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

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Harj has worked as a judicial clerk for the President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, as a policy advisor for the Australian Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and as a refugee and environmental lawyer, in addition to recent work as a climate change consultant for a leading US philanthropic fund. A recipient of UNSW's prize for Media Law, Harj has an interest in media law and regulation which has seen him work at the Australian Press Council.

Ndjodi Ndeunyema Ndjodi is currently pursuing a DPhil in Law and is researching on the right to water under the Namibian Constitution and International Law as a Daube Law Scholar at Linacre College, Oxford. Ndjodi has an MPhil in Law, the BCL and the MSc in Criminology, as a Rhodes Scholar. He also completed an LLB and a B.Juris from the University of Namibia. At present, Ndjodi is Research Director for the Oxford Human Rights Hub and serves as a founding Editor of the University of Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal. He is an Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal and was previously a Research Officer with Oxford Pro Bono Publico. He was in the winning team at the 2012 All Africa Human Rights Moot Court, and represented Southern Africa at the 2013 World (now Nelson Mandela) Human Rights Moot and at the 2013 Commonwealth Moot Court. He was awarded best participant and best memorial at the Lucerne Academy Human Rights Implementation Moot in Switzerland.

Eugene Neo Eugene is currently an associate at TSMP Law Corporation (Dispute Resolution Boutique Law Firm of 2018 and President’s Volunteerism & Philanthropy Award 2018). Eugene actively champions the rights of migrant workers and other indigent persons in Singapore. Prior to working at TSMP, Eugene trained under Mr Davinder Singh S.C. at Drew & Napier LLC and graduated in the top 25% of his class, obtaining a LLB (magna cum laude) from the Singapore Management University. He was actively involved in international moots as a student. His team clinched the first runner-up position at the 2015 Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot, and the top position at the 2016 Price Media Law Moot Court Competition. Eugene went on to coach the winning team for the 2017 Price Moot and the first runner-up team for the 2018 Price Moot. Eugene’s continued commitment to the Price Moot is inspired by Coldplay’s poignant lyrics, “Nobody said it was easy. It’s such a shame for us to part…”, and his desire to strengthen each successive generation of advocates’ belief in, and dedication towards, advancing human rights and using media law to bring about tangible changes in their societies.

Peter Noorlander Peter is an expert on international human rights law and policy, particularly on issues of freedom of expression and digital rights. He has worked in the human rights NGO sector for twenty years, during which he co-founded and led the award-winning Media Legal Defence Initiative, ran a global network of media and internet freedom lawyers and advised governments and NGOs on freedom of expression law and policy. Peter has published widely in mainstream media as well as specialist publications, mainly on freedom of expression and media law.

He is based in London and when he's not behind his laptop he's spending time with his family or out running.

Harjinder Obhi Harjinder is Senior Director International Litigation at Google where he has been employed since 2006. He has worked on many Google cases worldwide in which principles of freedom of expression including the right to receive and impart information are central e.g. Costeja v Google C-131/12 in which the CJEU introduced the so-called “right to be forgotten”, C-507/17 and C-136/17. Over 20y legal experience: Senior Legal Counsel EMEA & APAC at Network General (now NetScout); London law firm Bristows; Solicitor (qualified 1997); trained at Lovell White Durrant (now Hogan Lovells). Formerly: experimental physicist, PhD in superconductivity from Cambridge University.

Egemen Ozhan Egemen is Director of Egemen Ozhan Legal Consultancy Ltd, a qualified media and e-discovery lawyer based in London. Miss Ozhan received her LL.B from the University of Ankara and was admitted to Istanbul Bar Association. Miss Ozhan worked as a research assistant in Turkey during which time she visited the University of Oxford, Institute of European and Comparative Law as an Academic Scholar and published numerous articles on International Comparative Law. Before establishing her own law firm in London, Miss Ozhan worked for Dogan TV Holding AS, a leading media company based in Istanbul having the ownerships of CNN Turk and Kanal D TV channels. During that time she published an academic study titled “The Contracts in Turkish Law With Regard To Publishing of Literary And Artistic Works on Radio and Television”.

Currently Miss Ozhan is submitting her services as a media and e-discovery lawyer, focusing on internet law, digital forensics, criminal investigations, data protection and privacy law in the UK.

Yehudi Pelosi Yehudi is a Qualified Lawyer in France and a Registered European Lawyer in England and Wales. He recently joined Google as an International Litigation Counsel, having spent seven years working in a French firm of Barristers before the Supreme Courts. Whilst in France, he dealt mostly with Regulatory Law and Human Rights Law litigation before the French Council of State and Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights and Court of Justice. For the past four years, he also worked part-time as a public defender before the French National Court of Asylum representing victims of sex trafficking and sexual orientation based persecutions. Yehudi is a Senior Lecturer at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), where he teaches Civil Liberties, Immigration and Asylum Law and Data Protection Law. He completed a Masters Degree in Public Policy at Sciences Po and a Master Degree in Public Law at the Sorbonne Law School (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne).

Ollie Persey Ollie is a trainee barrister and Justice First Fellow at the Public Law Project, where he completed a secondment at Matrix Chambers. He read law at Oxford University and an LLM in international law at New York University School of Law ('NYU Law'). He captained NYU Law's team through the Americas rounds to the quarter-finals of the international rounds of the Price Moot. Before being called to the Bar, he was a researcher in the Programme in Comparative Media

Law & Policy, worked on criminal justice, mental health, and free speech issues at the American Civil Liberties Union and was a research assistant to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights. He is a committee member of Young Legal Aid Lawyers and a tutor at the London School of Economics Department of Law, where he teaches criminal law and supervises the LSE Public Law Clinic.

Peter Petkoff Peter is a Law Lecturer at the Brunel Law School. He is also Director of the Religion, Law and International Relations Programme, a collaborative international research network at Regent’s Park College, Oxford, and Managing Editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. He is Legal Consultant on Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression for the Representative on Freedom of the Media at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a TEPSA consultant of the European Parliament as well as a consultant for the All Party Parliamentary Group on International Freedom of Religion or Belief at the House of Lords.

Alina Pravdychenko Alina is a media lawyer and head of the Media Law Department of the Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law (CEDEM) – a Ukrainian civil society organization (former – Media Law Institute). She also is a member of Ukrainian Bar Association. In 2016 she coached the Ukrainian team for the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition. Now she is the Competition Coordinator for the North East Europe Regional Rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition. In 2018 she participated in the Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute.

Alina also works part time as a senior lecturer at the Law Faculty of Donetsk National University (Vinnytsia).

Monzur Rabbi Monzur is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and also a Barrister (Unregistered in UK) at the Bar of England and Wales (called by the Honorable Society of Lincoln’s Inn in Michaelmas 2014). He is currently the Senior Partner and Head of Chambers of Rahman & Rabbi Legal, a Law Chambers based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a legal professional with over seven years of experience and his areas of expertise include international arbitration law and practice, dispute resolution including negotiation and mediation, commercial, corporate, telecommunications, shipping law and international trade. Upon receiving a Fulbright Scholarship from the Government of USA, Monzur pursued an LL.M. in International Arbitration at the University of Miami School of Law, Florida, USA. Monzur did his pupilage in Bangladesh under the supervision of Mr. Ajmalul Hossain QC, the first Queen’s Counsel in England of Bangladeshi Origin. Monzur previously worked in a number of national and international arbitrations and he has the experience of appearing before international commercial arbitral tribunals. Monzur has already internationally published on different aspects of law and economics. Monzur sat as a Judge at the International Round of the 10th Price Media Law Moot Court Programme held at the University of Oxford, UK in April 2017, where he was also a participant in 2011.

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Ahmed Rashwan Ahmed is a researcher on public international law and issues of peacekeeping operations at Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (CCCPA). His research interests span from international human rights law and law of armed conflict to international constitutional law and civil rights and liberties. Ahmed holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Ain Shams University in Cairo and is currently pursuing his Master of Laws (LL.M.). from the same school. He is an alumni of the Price Moot Court Competition as he was a team member of the Ain Shams University team and a coach of the team for two years.

Eman Muhammad Rashwan Eman is a Ph.D. candidate at the program of European Doctorate in Law & Economics (EDLE) at universities of Hamburg, Bologna and Erasmus Rotterdam. She is also an Assistant Lecturer of Public Law at Cairo University, Faculty of Law. She Graduated from English Section of Cairo University, Faculty of Law in 2011 with very good with honors degree, in 2012 she was appointed as a Research Assistant of Public Law, and got her first Masters Degree in Public Law and Administrative Sciences in 2013 also from the same university. In 2014 she got her LL.M. in Law and Government with Concentration on Constitutional & Civil Rights from American University, Washington College of Law, Washington DC. USA. She organized and participated in a number of conferences and workshops in & outside Egypt, and she has a number of internationally published academic papers in fields of comparative constitutional law, political systems, gender

law, transitional justice, and international humanitarian law. She also has considerable experience in volunteering activities in different legal and educational aspects.

Yara Refai Yara completed her Law BA at the University of Jordan and is a former participant in the Price Moot Court Competition. She is currently training as a corporate lawyer and an arbitration practitioner, working on drafting memorials and legal documents. Yara is currently the GM for the universal centre for arbitration and training in Amman, Jordan.

Zach Press Zach is an associate at Miller Korzenik Sommers Rayman LLP in New York City where he specializes in First Amendment litigation, copyright defense, newsgathering torts and other intellectual property and media claims. He earned his J.D. from Cardozo Law School and his LL.M. in French and European Law from the Sorbonne. During his studies, Zach was an Academic Visitor at the Programme for Comparative Media Law and Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, where he pursued independent research as a Howard M. Squadron Fellow in Law, Media, and Society. He has been involved in the Price Moot Court Competition as a judge and organizer since 2015.

Jacob Rowbottom Jacob is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Oxford and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. He writes on issues relating to freedom of speech, elections, political participation and media law. Jacob is the author of Media Law (2018) and is a co-editor of the Journal of Media Law.

Igor Rozkladai Igor is a co-founder and main expert of the Center for Democracy and Rule of Law (former Media Law Institute), a think tank that has worked in Ukraine’s civil society dedicated to the development of independent media, civic platforms and movements, and legal reform in Ukraine. Mr. Rozkladai is also the leading expert of the media reform group and national memory policy group of the Reanimation Package of Reforms, which is the largest coalition of leading Ukrainian non-governmental organizations. He is also a national expert on the projects of the Council of Europe in the field of media law.

Bryan San JuanBryan is a junior judge, currently in the Magister Juris Program of the Faculty of Law here at the University of Oxford. He has been a practicing lawyer for 8 years now and is affiliated with Puno & Puno Law Offices as Senior Associate and Head of its Antitrust Law Department. Before joining Puno & Puno, he was legal consultant to the Government of the Republic of the Philippines Peace Panel for the Negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, under the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process. He was also former project consultant to the APEC Counter Terrorism Task Force when the Chairmanship was held by the Republic of the Philippines. Byan finished his Juris Doctor in 2010 at the University of the Philippines College of Law, graduating valedictorian (rank 1) and Cum Laude.

Mariana Scolaro Mariana is a Venezuelan Lawyer with a great passion in International Human RIghts Law, graduated from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in January 2018. During her studies,

she represented her University at the Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition (Washington, D.C., 2015), being awarded as Semifinalist and Best Memorial of the State in Spanish, and for the next three years she was the Coach of the following teams before that Moot Court (2016, 2017, 2018). She was also awarded with a full scholarship to attend the Lucerne Academy for Human Rights Implementation in July 2016 and served as invited Judge for the Academy's Moot Court in July 2018. Before moving to Oxford in February 2018, she was a Junior Lawyer at Ayala, Dillon, Linares, Chavero, where she litigated before both the Inter-American and Universal Human Rights Protection Systems. Currently, she is a Casual Clerk for the Governing Body at the Oxfordshire County Council.

Taras Shevchenko Taras is the Director and founder of Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law - a think-and-act tank, which has been working in the civil society sector of Ukraine since 2005 channelling its efforts for development of independent media, support of civic platforms and movements, and building Rule of Law in Ukraine. He is Board Co-chairman for Reanimation Package of Reforms (RPR) – the largest coalition of leading non-governmental organizations and experts from all over Ukraine. The RPR also functions as a coordination center for 80 non-governmental organizations and 22 expert groups which develop, promote, and control implementation of the reforms. As leading media law expert in media law he has participated in drafting media legislation in Ukraine. In particular, co-drafted existing Law on Access to Public Information; Law on Public Service Broadcasting; Law on National Council on TV and Radio; Defamation Law amendments; Law on Parliamentary

Elections (as to Media & Elections); Law on ban of tobacco advertising; Law on Public Financing of Political Parties. He is an author of over 100 articles and publication on freedom of speech reforms, democracy, election, legal regulation of media, protection of journalist’ rights, etc.

Bethany Shiner Bethany is a lecturer at Middlesex University, London and is a qualified but non-practising solicitor-advocate who specialised in judicial review and human rights. Bethany's research centres around the use of personal data in digital political campaigning; the Human Rights Act; and, the allegations of ill-treatment and torture against British soldiers in Iraq.

Asmita Singhvi Asmita completed her B.A. L.L.B. (Hons.) from Jindal Global Law School as a Bronze Medalist. She participated in the 2016 edition of the Price Media Moot Court where her team emerged as Overall Runners-Up at the International Rounds. She also received the award for Best Speaker (Runners-Up). She has a continued interest in free speech and privacy law. As a research assistant, she provided inputs to a Delhi High Court Committee on issues pertaining to trial by media and use of social media in court premises. She is currently pursuing the BCL at the University of Oxford.

Michael Skrein Michael is a senior partner at international law firm Reed Smith LLP. He is a litigator and has for many years specialised in a variety of aspects of media law. His cases often have a cross-border, multi-jurisdictional flavour. Michael holds Master's degrees from the Universities of Oxford and of Southern California.

Kirsten Sjovoll Kirsten has been a member of Matrix Chambers since 2012, she practises predominately in media and information law and acts for both Claimants and Defendants in defamation, privacy and data privacy related matters. She is currently the Complaints Officer handling editorial complaints as part of the Guardian's Review Panel. Her other main practise areas are inquests and inquiries and related civil proceedings. Kirsten is currently instructed as part of the team representing 250 Scottish infected and affected Core Participants in the Infected Blood Inquiry.

Max Slackman Max leads the Instagram Product Policy team. This team builds policies managing how people, brands, and developers interact with the app. Max is a member of the Oregon Bar and previously worked on Facebook's privacy legal team. Before law school Max studied microbiology, developing HIV vaccines and tuberculosis tests. He holds a JD from George Mason University and a BS in biology from William & Mary.

Chaani Srivastava Chaani is an International Attorney, with a multi-disciplinary practice spread between US and India. She is involved with advising clients on a range of Intellectual Property and Technology related issues. Chaani was awarded the Advanced Degree Program Scholarship for LLM-2015 from University of California, Berkeley School of Law, with a specialization in Law and Technology. She read law and science for her undergraduate dual degree of B.Sc. LLB (Hons.) - 2010 at Gujarat National Law University, India.

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She is a policy enthusiast associated with various governmental and non-governmental organizations for pro bono non-legal matters.

Maria Luisa StasiMaria is a Senior Legal Officer at ARTICLE 19. Based in the London office, she contributes to the development of the organisation’s policies on infrastructure, competition, and regulatory framework for telecoms, internet providers and online service providers. She also provides legal support to the organisation’s regional offices on digital rights and media policy issues. Prior to joining ARTICLE 19, Maria Luisa coordinated various projects at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute, where she conducted research, policy and capacity building activities in the telecoms and media sector. Before that, she worked as associate lawyer at Bonelli Erede, an international law firm, where she advised clients on competition rules and represented them in proceedings before competition authorities and courts from various jurisdictions. Maria Luisa holds a law degree (distinction) from the University of Perugia, a Master’s degree on international relations from LUMSA University and an LLM on European Legal Studies from the College of Europe. She was admitted at the Italian Bar in 2008.

Randall Stephenson Randall is a scholar of defamation law and public law. He completed his DPhil in law at the University of Oxford in 2017. Randall’s first book, A Crisis of Democratic Accountability: Public Libel Law and the Checking Function of the Press (Hart Publishing 2018), is adapted from his doctoral thesis and undertakes a

comparative study of the public interest and political speech defences in defamation law. It argues that the law and legal approach taken in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States are undertheorized, lack adequate criteria for determining the correct form of the defence, and would benefit from a more precise understanding of ‘democracy’, ‘representation’, and ‘accountability’. Recently, Randall was a panelist at the Law Commission of Ontario’s international conference on ‘Defamation Law and the Internet: Where Do We Go From Here?’ – one of the most comprehensive defamation law reform projects to date. His postdoctoral research includes analysing the rise and constitutional significance of WikiLeaks and whistleblowing, establishing appropriate limits to judicial ‘authorisation’ of mass surveillance of digital communications, and assessing the legal and accountability implications of ‘fake news’. Before attending Oxford, Randall practiced litigation at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto, Canada and studied under prominent First Amendment scholars and practitioners during his LLM studies at Columbia Law School.

Sarwar Sultan Ahmed Sarwar was born in Herat in the west of Afghanistan while there were in all parts of my homeland war and catastrophy. While Sarwar was a law student at the law and political science faculty, he became member of Herat University Phillip C. Jessup Team and after a national competition, as a team member he pleaded in the international rounds of Jessup in Washington D.C. Since then, Sarwar has finished a DU (Diplome Universitaire) at the Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University online. In 2017 he started Masters program of DEUF and is in the second year of a Master’s in International public law at the same

university. Sarwar judged the international rounds of Phillip C.Jessup in 2018 and other national rounds of different moot courts in different countries.

Phil Taylor Phil is a solicitor practising in the City of London with a specialism in white collar and corporate criminal defence, as well as investigations, compliance and civil litigation. Phil’s criminal trial experience includes acting as instructing solicitor in the defence of an individual accused of several counts of criminal tax fraud. The five-handed jury trial ran for approximately six months at Southwark Crown Court, and Phil’s client was acquitted. He has also acted for an individual accused of assault, and another asked to give evidence for the Crown at a high-profile criminal fraud trial. Phil also has experience of civil litigation including preparing cases to be heard before the High Court and Court of Appeal. He often advises individuals and companies on investigations conducted by the police, the Serious Fraud Office and the Financial Conduct Authority; advises clients on production orders, section 2 notices, suspicious activity reporting, and responding to requests for information from the police, NCA and HMRC; conducts internal investigations on behalf of large corporations, particularly where allegations of bribery are involved; and assists multinational companies on anti-bribery, anti-money laundering and anti-tax evasion compliance, including delivering face-to-face training. Phil regularly volunteers his time as an advocate representing individuals through the Free Representation Unit at the First Tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber), and advising clients on a range of issues at the Mary Ward Legal Centre in Holborn, London.

Lizaveta Trakhalina Lizaveta holds an undergraduate degree in International Law (2017) and MA degree in Legal Science (2018) from Belarusian State University. She established a local branch of the European Law Student’s Association (ELSA) in Belarus, with the current membership of more than a thousand Belarusian law students. During her studies, Lizaveta participated in 11 moot courts and acted as a coach for Price Media Law team from Belarusian State University in 2018, which advanced to top-16 teams. Before joining Magister Juris course at the University of Oxford, Lizaveta practiced law as an associate at “Sysouev, Bondar, Khrapoutski SBH” Law Office in Belarus, advising on handling commercial, investment and sport disputes in arbitration.

Konstantinos Tsakiliotis Konstantinos studies law at the Humboldt University in Berlin specialising in intellectual property, particularly in the interface of law and ICT. His bachelor thesis was on the patentability of ICT. He is an alumnus of Harvard CopyrightX. In 2017, he participated in the Humboldt Internet Law Clinic. In 2018, he coached the team of the Humboldt University at the PMLMC. He also worked as an intern in the Berlin office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, where he dealt with Facebook’s compliance with the German Network Enforcement Act. He worked as a student assistant in the administration of the German Bundestag. At the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, he supports the research group "Global Constitutionalism" under Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Pernice and is involved with the project “Digital Identity, Citizenship and Democracy in Europe”.

Raghavi Viswanath Raghavi is pursuing the BCL at the University of Oxford. She graduated from National Law Institute University, Bhopal (India) with a B.A LL.B (Hons.) in 2018. During her undergraduation, Raghavi was selected to attended the International Criminal Law: Theory to Practice at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, The Hague, where she received training in trial advocacy and the working of the ICC. She has also worked with the Global Freedom of Expression project at Columbia University as a legal researcher for Eurasia, and with the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi on their project on privacy in electronic communications. Later in law school, Raghavi represented her University at the world rounds of the 58th Philip C Jessup International Moot Court Competition, 2017 and finished amongst the top 8 teams.

Samuel White Samuel is a tutor in Public Law and Scots Private Law at the University of Dundee, where he studied for his LL.B. He is currently working towards a PhD at Dundee, in the field of international human rights and UK constitutional law, funded by a Carnegie-Caledonain PhD Scholarship. In addition to mooting and judging moots during his time as an undergraduate, Samuel has for the past two years been a coach of the Scottish Team competing in the Telders International Moot Court Competition. This is the second year has acted as a judge of Price Media Law Moot Court Programme.

Adam Wolanski Adam is a barrister at 5RB in London specialising in media law. His recent cases include Sir Cliff Richard v BBC (privacy rights in respect of reports of investigations) and Khuja v Times Newspapers (Supreme Court - privacy and reports of court proceedings).

Anna Zanathy Anna graduated with a summa cum laude degree from the ELTE - Faculty of Law in 2017, where she continued as a PhD student in media law. Anna joined PwC Legal - Réti, Várszegi & Partners Law Firm as a trainee lawyer specialized on IT/IP law and data protection. She earned a full scholarship for Leiden University’s Law and Digital Technologies Advanced LL.M. Program and is currently pursuing her career at Van Doorne N.V. Law Firm. She has been participating for years in the Price Media Moot Law Court Competition.

Szabolcs Zöldréti Szabolcs is a graduate in Law from the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. His studies included human rights and media regulation of the European Union. His first thesis was a research study about the current state of community radios in the United Kingdom. He has been admitted for an Erasmus semester in Copenhagen and Lyon. In 2017, as a member of his University’s team, he participated at the Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court at the South East European Regional Rounds, where he qualified with his teammates for the International Rounds in Oxford. In 2018, he returned to Oxford as a student judge and was also the coordinator of this year's South East European Regional Round. Currently he works for a Brussels-based multicultural think tank.

“Getting together with motivated students from all across the world who have spent

endless hours perfecting both their memorials as well as their pleadings for the judges is a once in a lifetime experience. The Oxford

setting and the program accompanying the competition have made the Price Media Law

Moot Court one of the most intellectually and socially enriching times of my life.”Shari Odhiambo – Humbolt University – Participant

in the Price Moot Court Competition 2018

A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S

We are grateful for the support from our network of colleagues and sponsors.

We would like to extend a warm thank you to all of the judges who give their time to judge the moot court oral rounds, and to those scoring the written arguments who invested their time and effort to evaluate and comment on each of the memorials for the Regional and International Rounds: Petar Radosavljev, Sergio Giuliano, Gehan Gunatilleke and Sonja Kolundzija. We would also like to thank Gehan Gunatilleke for this year’s case and for his work on the Bench Memo. To Sarah Phillimore for joining us again to give a Mooting Masterclass, and to Monroe Price for agreeing to deliver the inaugural Eric Barendt Law Lecture.

Thank you also to all of our Organising Committee volunteers for their invaluable help during the competition.

This competition would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. We have many willing partners around the world, particularly lending support to the regional competitions. In addition to many of our long-standing regional round sponsors we are grateful for the generous support of Alan Weiler, the Scone Foundation, the Hearst Corporation, Ted and Betsy

Rogers, David Abel, Edward Barlow, Jon and Liz Blake, Gill Phillips, Medienstiftung der Sparkasse Leipzig. We are also very grateful to Mansfield College and the University of Oxford for their roles in facilitating the International Rounds of the Competition.

Last, but by no means least, we are very thankful to our Regional Rounds partner institutions – Internews Network-Afghanistan, Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi, Law School & Aisa-Pacific Institute of Law, Renmin University of China, Eötvös Loránd University, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Centre for democracy and rule of law, Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School University of Pennsylvania, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Faculty of Law, British University in Cairo, the University of Johannesburg – and to all of our colleagues whose invaluable work makes the Regional Rounds possible: Morsal Herawy, Mir Abdul Wahed Hashimi, Sarvjeet Singh, Neil Shroff, XU Fei, Jasmin Zhang, Szabolcs Zoldreti, Alina Pravdychenko, Jocelyn Hackett, Ahmed Khalifa, Ola Nagy, Nicole Stremlau, Collen Chambwera, Shingai Harry Jijita.

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“The past months have been the most challenging of my life, but the moment I started Mooting at the podium of Oxford University I realised it was worth it.

The Moot proved to me that whatever the destination is, it is reachable. I am the most motivated I’ve been in my whole life to make the impossible possible.”

Nazanin Sangestani – Iranian Participant in the Price Moot Court Competition 2018

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