Farah Afifa: JESSUP INTERCONTINENTAL FRIENDLY ROUNDS

Hi everyone! It's March 2021 already. I have finished my 5th semester of degree in February and that's the reason why you have only seen my post about my new favorite wireless earphones.

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I was also busy with mooting as usual. I recently participated in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2021 Jessup Intercontinental Rounds Friendly rounds. The administrators are Evgeny Minchev, Tiago de Freitas and Pierre Durand from Jessup Bulgaria and Jessup France.

There were 8 competing teams from 7 countries - Bulgaria, France, Latvia, Malaysia, Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden.

I am very grateful for this Friendly as it really helps to polish my advocacy skills and also my knowledge (specifically on Public International Law this time) for sure. Also, I just took the law in my 5th semester, so yeah practicing it during the moot.

Also, I guess the biggest hurdle throughout the rounds would be the time difference. My first experience to moot virtually at 12am-3am was tough. I had to stay awake and my head hurts a lot the next day. Still hurting though. Luckily it was only 1 round. Other rounds were at 7pm-10pm for me~

12am-3am 😂

Nevertheless, it was a wonderful journey and experience. I love meeting new people (albeit virtually, better than nothing) and of course the valuable feedbacks from the judges. It was even interesting that the judges themselves joined Jessup, some from 10 years ago. The judges also shared their career path. So cool that their career are still related to Public International Law.

Meet my teammates!

From Left :

1) Wan Nur Fatini, we went to the same audition to moot in 2018 and we have participated in 3 moot competitions together including Jessup and I would say this is my favorite. We share the position this time and that I guess the reason why we spend so much time talking to each other. I am glad that both of us decided to be here, to join this competition together.

2) Wardah is our Team Captain and she has completed her law degree last month! It's an honor to work with her and I can't to see more of her achievements in the future.

3) Iqmal acts as the Solicitor for team and I was really excited when he first join the team. I was assigned to be his mooting coach in 2019 for the Faculty's Internal Moot (it was part of their academic assessment). When I met him, I could tell that he's such an amazing person and definitely will be a mooter one day. Yes, he did. He joined NAMCO last year and this year's Jessup. That's just spectacular.

4) Ameerah Batrisyia! We went to the same audition to moot in 2018 and we have participated in 2 moot competitions together. This is the second time. As you can tell, she's an incredible advocate! Amazing research skills as well.