The RFTA team has successfully passed national rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and entered the international stage of the competition, which will be held in Washington DC (USA). In April RFTA team will compete against more than 100 teams from 80 countries. Good luck!

Second year in a row and only second time in its history RFTA team will take part in the international stage of the biggest and most prestigious international competition for international law, which will take place in Washington, DC, USA.

The topics of the Jessup-2016 competition include the legality of mass surveillance programs, the international legal consequences of cyberattacks attributable to states and the detention processes for terrorism suspects.

Our team includes Alisa Kadjoyan, Elina Arazakaeva, Viktoria Levchenko and Natalia Shavarina The team was coached by the RFTA alumnis, Anna Korshunova and Maria Petrenko who finished 2^nd in the Russian stage and 28^th in the international stage of the competition last year.

«Once in Jessup, you will never want to go to rest», — said the team members.

After being victorious in all the preliminary rounds in order to qualify for the 12-team finals, winning over the MSU team among others, the RFTA team defeated the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia’s team and finished in Top-5 out of 42 teams from around the Russia in competition.

Alisa Kadjoyan took 7^th place in the “Best Oralist” nomination and Elina Arazakaeva was awarded with a special prize from the sponsor of the tournament, Pericles American Law School.