MOOT COURT ON THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL CHARTER
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Rouen, 23 may 2025
University of Rouen, Normandy
- GENERAL PRESENTATION
- REGISTRATION FOR THE 2025 COMPETITION
- COMPETITION CALENDAR
- RULES
- SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
GENERAL PRESENTATION
NEW TIMELINE
The fourth edition of the Moot Court Competition on the European Social Charter is organised by the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and Social Rights (ANESC) with the support of the Council of Europe and it is open to law students registered in any university of Member States of the Council of Europe. On the initiative of the French section of ANESC, the oral phase of the competition will take place at Rouen (France) on 3 April 2025 23 May 2025 and will be hosted by the University of Rouen Normandy.
Applications should be submitted by 17 November 2024, 17 January 2025, 23.59 pm (CET) to info@racse-anesc.org, using the form available here.
This bilingual (French-English) competition is based on a fictitious case and includes a written phase and an oral phase. The Scientific Committee and the jury of the competition are composed by legal experts from the European Committee of Social Rights, the CoE’s Department of Social Rights and from ANESC, who will draft the fictitious case. The fictitious case will be communicated to the participating teams on 20 January 2025.
By drawing lots, half of the competing teams are given the status of “claimants” and the other half the status of “respondent government”.
The written phase consists of the drafting of a collective complaint (for “applicant” teams) or a memorandum (for “respondent government” teams). The complaints and the memorandums must be sent to the ANESC’s Secretariat e-mail address (info@racse-anesc.org), in anonymous form, no later than 17 April, h. 23,59 (CET), failing which they will not be accepted.
The oral phase consists of a mock “hearing” before the European Committee of Social Rights (represented by the juries), within the meaning of Article 7 (4) of the Protocol of 9 November 1995.
The plenary jury designate the winners as follows:
1. The winning team of the final hearing;
2. The runner-up (the second team qualified for the final hearing);
3. The best pleader;
4. The best written collective complaint;
5. The best written memorandum.
The best written collective complaint and the best written memorandum will be published on the ANESC site after the competition has closed.
Please consult the detailed timeline here.
For more accurate documentation, please checkup the updated Rules of the competition, which are available on our site as well.
For any further information on the Moot Court Competition, do not hesitate to contact us at: info@racse-anesc.org
REGISTRATION FOR THE 2025 COMPETITION
Applications should be submitted using the form available here
COMPETITION CALENDAR 2025
– 17 January 2025 (Friday), h. 23,59 (CET) – deadline for registration in the competition, by filling the registration form and sending it to info@racse-anesc.org
– 18 January 2025 – ANESC Coordination Committee designates the `complainants’ and the `respondent governments’, by drawing lots (Art. 2.3. of the Rules);
– 20 January 2025 – ANESC Secretariat communicates the Moot case to the teams that are properly enrolled in the competition, together with their ‘legal standing’;
– 31 January 2025 – deadline for submission of max. 2 questions/team to the Scientific Committee, by sending them to info@racse-anesc.org (Art. 5.4. of the Rules)
– 10 February 2025 – ANESC Secretariat communicates the Scientific Committee’s answers to the teams
– 17 April 2025 (Thursday), h. 23,59 (CET) – deadline for submission of complaints/memorandums, in anonymous form, to info@racse-anesc.org (Art. 5.3. of the Rules)
– 15 May 2025 – ANESC Secretariat communicates the papers to the opposite teams (Art. 5.6. of the Rules)
– 23 May 2025 (Friday) – the oral phase (University of Rouen Normandy)
RULES
Download the rules here.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Diana BĂLĂNESCU (CoE’s Department of Social Rights)
Christina DELIYANNI-DIMITRAKOU (member of the ANESC)
Sára HUNGLER (member of the ANESC, coordinator of the Hungarian section)
Karin LUKAS (former member of the European Committee of Social Rights)
Cristina SÂMBOAN (General coordinator of the ANESC)
George THEODOSIS (member of the European Committee of Social Rights)
Laurent VIOTTI (CoE’s Department of Social Rights)