The first day of preliminary rounds has kicked off on the University of Botswana’s.

Teams are gearing up for an intense two days of knock out rounds that will whittle 40 participating teams to just 6, with 3 teams per side expected to argue before the Chief Justice at the High Court Complex of Botswana on Saturday the 6th of July 2019. After speaking to participants from the University of the Witwatersrand before the firsts round, they noted that the experience so far has been engaging and daunting.

The African Human Rights Moot Court Competition remains one of the largest gathering of students, academics and judges from the continent under the theme of human rights in Africa. This annual event brings together law faculties in Africa, whose top students argue a hypothetical human rights case as if they were before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The Competition continuously prepares new generations of lawyers to argue cases of alleged human rights violations before the African Court.

Since its creation in 1992, 150 universities from 50 African countries have taken part in this permanent fixture on the Africa legal education calendar. The Moot has been a catalyst for the establishment of the leading programmes in the field of human rights teaching and research in Africa. In 2018, the 27th edition of the Moot Court Competition was hosted at the University of Ghana, Legon. The event brought together 51 teams from 20 African countries.

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