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The University of Oxford regained its position as the most successful competing university over time by defeating the Université de Liège in the Eighteenth International Roman Law Moot Court Competition Grand Final, held in the Library of All Souls College, Oxford on Friday 11 April 2025. Runners-up now for two years in a row, the Liège team of Ana…

The whole IRLM community mourns the untimely death of a cherished friend and colleague, Professor Cosimo Cascione, who has died in Naples aged 55. Professor of Roman Law and the Foundations of European Law at the Department of Jurisprudence at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Cosimo was a passionate and much-loved supporter of the …

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens successfully defended its 2023 title, defeating the Université de Liège in the Seventeenth International Roman Law Moot Court Competition, at a Grand Final held in the magnificent Justizpalast in Vienna on Friday 5 April 2024. The winning team consisted of Danae Argyropoyloy, Maria Fefe, Rodanthi K…

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens defeated the University of Cambridge in the Sixteenth International Roman Law Moot Court Competition, at a Grand Final held against the stunning backdrop of the Oden of the Villa of Vedius Pollio at the Pausilypon on the Bay of Naples on Friday 21 April 2023. The winning team consisted of Oikonomou…

Mooting in the Stoa of Attalos in the Ancient Agora of Athens, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen defeated the University of Cambridge in the Fifteenth International Roman Law Moot Court Competition on Friday 8 April 2022. The victorious team consisted of Benjamin Zeeb, Patroklus Witte, Constantin Diem and Emilia Pfau, and was coached by Konstanti…

The Conclave held following the Fifteenth Moot gratefully accepted the invitation extended by A/Professor Athina Dimopoulou for the Εθνικόν και Καποδιστριακόν Πανεπιστήμιον Αθηνών (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) to host the Fifteenth International Roman Law Moot in the Athens in March 2021, pandemic permitting. While the first five…

The University of Oxford defeated the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II in the Fourteenth International Roman Law Moot Court Competition on 9 April 2021. Yun Kei Chow and Ben Stanley for Oxford, with colleagues Henry Fahrenkamp and Kacper Kryk at the virtual bar table, and Renata Nigrelli and Eleonora Mainardi for Naples, with Beatrice O…

Sunday, 6 September, 2020The University of Cambridge defeated the Universität Wien to claim victory in the Thirteenth International Roman Law Moot Court Competition on 4 September 2020. The team consisted of Adam Brown (Q), Jared Foong (CHR), Caitlin Moore (CHR) and Tom Williamson (JN), all of whom only recently completed Part IA of the Law Tripos.…

The Conclave held on 26 June 2020 decided that, on account of the present pandemic, the Thirteenth IRLM would be held online, in the period from 2 to 6 September 2020, for those teams willing and able to participate remotely. Competition documents are now available on the Thirteenth IRLM page.

Professor Dr Thomas Finkenauer and his team at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen are preparing to host the Fourteenth International Roman Law Moot in Germany in April 2021. The preliminary rounds and semi-finals will take place in the Neue Aula at the Universität Tübingen, while the Small and Grand Finals will be held in the Landgericht Tübin…

A team from the Université de Liège, comprising Marie Beudels, Marie Duchesne, Nargisse El Houti and Zoé Ledent has won the Twelfth International Roman Law Moot, defeating the University of Oxford in the Grand Final, held in the Lady Chapel at Ely Cathedral. This is the first time that Liège has secured the Palma Victoriae, and reverses the 2018 re…

The Conclave held at Kloster Heidberg following the Eleventh Moot gratefully accepted the invitation extended by Professor David Ibbetson for the University of Cambridge to host the Twelfth International Roman Law Moot in the United Kingdom in March 2019.

The University of Oxford team, comprising Tim Koch, Niamh Herrett, Andrew Dixon and Daniel Schwennicke, emerged victorious at the Eleventh International Roman Law Moot, following the Grand Final held in the Salle Académique at the Université de Liège, at which Prof. Melchior Wathelet, A/Prof. Athina Dimopoulou, Prof. David Ibbetson, Prof. Dr Consta…