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PRICE MEDIA LAW MOOT COURT COMPETITION

On behalf of the University of Oxford’s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, I am delighted to welcome you to the 10th International Rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition.

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Over the week you will address, and deepen, your understanding of cutting-edge questions in media law and policy. These will include the very timely issues of free speech, incitement to violence and the regulation of social media.We continue to be particularly impressed with the quality of teams’ arguments each year during Regional Rounds. We are also much encouraged by the growing number of countries represented. This year we have seen seven successful Regional Rounds in New Delhi, Beijing, Zagreb, Kiev, New York, Cairo and Lagos, as well as National Rounds in Kabul, Afghanistan. The selective International Rounds promise to be as challenging and exciting as ever. Not only will you be making your cases before benches of highly-qualified experts, but you will also spend time getting to know fellow students from around the world who share your passion for the essential questions around freedom of expression and media law.

Together with our partners, we remain committed to building research around the questions raised in the moot court case and beyond. The competition, the conferences and workshops, and the growing network of individuals and institutions involved in the Programme provide numerous opportunities for different players to come together and discuss contentious issues, while working towards shared goals of effective policy development. We would like to emphasize that the Price Media Law Moot Court Programme is more than a moot court. It is a vehicle for discussing and studying some of the most complex issues of media law, which continue to shape the lives of people across the globe.

We are very proud of our Programme and are delighted to have you as part of it. We hope that your time in Oxford will be both enjoyable and rewarding, and that your memories, and what you learn over the course of the week, will stay with you in your future studies and careers. We look forward to welcoming you back at future events.

Warm wishes and best of luck for the competition!

Dr NICOLE STREMLAU, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford

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And the previous winners were...2008 International Islamic University, Malaysia

2009 Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, USA

2010 Singapore Management University, Singapore

2011 University of Belgrade, Serbia

2012 NALSAR University of Law, Hyderbad, India

2013 National Law University, Delhi, India

2014 Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat, India

2015 University of the Philippines, Philippines

2016 Singapore Management University, Singapore

This year a total of 92 teams competed in 7 Regional Rounds, with 44 qualifying for the International Rounds in Oxford

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COUNTRIES: AFGHANISTAN, AUSTRALIA, BAHAMAS, BANGLADESH, BELARUS, BELGIUM, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA, BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA, CROATIA, ECUADOR, EGYPT, ETHIOPIA, GHANA, GEORGIA, GERMANY, GREECE, HUNGARY, INDIA, IRAN, IRELAND, JAMAICA, JORDAN, KENYA, LATVIA, LEBANON, LITHUANIA, MALAYSIA, NETHERLANDS, NIGERIA, PAKISTAN, PALESTINE, PHILIPPINES, QATAR, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, SERBIA, SIERRA LEONE, SINGAPORE, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH KOREA, SRI LANKA, TANZANIA, THAILAND, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, UGANDA, UK, UKRAINE, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, USA, ZIMBABWE.

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The Price Media Law Moot Court Programme was founded in 2008 by the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, University of Oxford. Over the past ten years, the Competition has grown significantly and has established itself as a high-profile event on the media law and policy calendar.

Though the Competition began with only Finals in Oxford, it now has Regional Rounds in South Asia, Asia-Pacific, South East Europe, North East Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and West Africa. Every year outstanding students from around the world come to Oxford to participate in the International Rounds of the Competition.

The Price Media Law Moot Court Competition aims to foster and cultivate an interest in freedom of expression and the role of media and information technologies in our societies. It does this by challenging students to engage in comparative research of regional and international standards and to develop their arguments (in written and oral forms) on cutting-edge questions in media and ICT law.

P A R T N E R SP R O G R A M M E

MONROE E. PRICE founded the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy in 1998. He established the Programme as a place to encourage a network of practitioners and scholars from around the world, who would contribute to an understanding of the role of media in society.

A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, Professor Price is a member of the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, where he directed the Center for Global Communication Studies. Professor Price chaired the Center for Media and Communications Studies at Central European University and is the author of many books and articles on the subject of media and society.

Dr NICOLE STREMLAU is Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy and is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Her research is on media policy in post-war situations with a focus on Africa.

The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) PCMLP is part of Oxford University Law Faculty’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. PCMLP is a research and policy programme that brings together scholars, policymakers and practitioners to study contemporary issues in global media law and policy. The Programme has a particular interest in understanding media and governance in transitioning and fragile states.

PCMLP explores the vast changes in media policy across the world from multiple disciplines: law, politics, international relations, economics and anthropology, among others. We achieve our objectives through conducting academic and policy relevant research; supporting and developing our network; and offering academic training and support.

More information on PCMLP can be found on our website: http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk

The Annenberg School for CommunicationThe school at the University of Pennsylvania combines the intimacy of highly-selective graduate and undergraduate programs with the dynamism, resources, and personnel of a major research institute. Embedded within one of the world’s top research universities and world-class cities, Annenberg students can follow their research interests at virtually any academic intersection they choose. The influence of digital networks on large-scale group activities, the impact of health-related messages and media content on healthcare decisions, and the aspects of interconnected social, economic, and technological systems on everyday life are just a few of the multi-layered and interconnected fields of research found among Annenberg’s faculty, researchers, and students.

With interdisciplinary research residing at the core of what goes on every day, Annenberg provides a vibrant, challenging, intellectual experience for students, training them to become leaders in their chosen fields by applying and adapting diverse theories and methods to the cutting-edge communication issues of the twenty-first century.

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Ms Kamille Adair MorganAn Attorney-at-Law and Jamaica Rhodes Scholar, Kamille is reading for the D. Phil in Law at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. She describes herself as a moot court enthusiast, having participated in various moots as a competitor, judge, coach, and organiser. Kamille provides technical support for the Price Moot Court Regional Rounds and co-ordinates the International Rounds in Oxford.

Dr Richard DanburyPractised, briefly, as a criminal barrister at 9-12 Bell Yard, before spending a decade at the BBC. He is the principal lecturer on the Channel 4 MA in investigative journalism at De Montfort University in Leicester. He remains a consultant at Oxford’s Programme for Comparative Media Law and Policy, and was a member of CIPIL at Cambridge University.

Ms Nevena KrivokapicAttorney-at-Law, is the Moot Court Co-ordinator for the Regional and International Rounds of the Price Moot Court Competition. She was a member of the University of Belgrade winning team of the Price Moot in 2011. In addition, she holds the position of co-ordinator for online media and freedom of expression in the digital environment at SHARE foundation, Serbia. Her activities are mostly focused on the regulation of online media and third-party content on the Internet.

Ms Sarah NormanHas been involved in education for the past 21 years, first as a history teacher and head of department, and then as an Assistant Principal Examiner on public examinations. She has also worked in digital resources for schools and higher education institutions. Based in Oxford, she works with the team on the organisation of the International Rounds, as well as providing support for the Regional Rounds.

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“A global onslaught on existing speech norms and institutions: coping with hate speech, fake news and online violent extremism”

What was long a matter of spirited but largely episodic debate-how to isolate, identify and fashion societal responses to the certain categories of speech-has now expanded into a complex and immediate problem of large-scale institutional response. Terrorism, intense polarization, new global arrangements and the rise of fake news have all influenced national and international approaches. This conference addresses how we should respond to these challenges. We are delighted to welcome experts from all over the world to lead sessions sharing their knowledge and experience and facilitating discussion on these burning issues.

Thiago Alves Pinto holds an LLB (Hons.) from Centro Universitário Curitiba (Brazil) and a Master’s Degree in International Human Rights Law from Abo Akademi University (Finland). He is currently in the second year of his DPhil in Law, researching on the topic of offence to religious belief in International Human Rights Law, and is the Graduate Teaching Assistant for Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. Thiago has been actively involved with NGOs and international organizations, having worked with the United Nations Special

Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief and at the International Organization for Migration on human rights projects. In 2015, he co-authored the UNESCO report: “Countering Online Hate Speech”, and more recently contributed as an advisor for a study on Countering Extremism Online, organised by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Thiago is also a reviewer for the International Journal of Communication.

Gil Anthony Aquino holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of the Philippines and a B.S. Chemistry degree from the Ateneo de Manila University. He was the co-captain of the team from the University of the Philippines that won the Asia-Pacific Championship and the World Championship of the 2015 Price Media Law Moot Court Competition.

Nathaniel Bach is an associate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Los Angeles, where he specializes in media and entertainment litigation, financial services litigation, and government investigations. His media clients include motion picture studios, television networks, software and technology companies, music and record companies, and advertising agencies. He drafted the Price Media Law Moot Court case for the 2015-2016 competition, and previously spent two years in Gibson Dunn’s London office.

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Joan Barata is an international expert in freedom of expression, media freedom and media regulation. He provides regular assistance to different international organizations and entities, including the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the European Broadcasting Union, the Organization of American States, UNESCO and USAID among others. Dr. Barata is an affiliate to the Center for Global Communication Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Fellow at the Centre for Internet and Human Rights at European University Viadrina.

Daniel Bekele is the Senior Director for Africa Advocacy at Human Rights Watch where he has previously served as the Executive Director of the Africa division from 2011 - 2016. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Daniel practiced law in Ethiopia and he managed Action Aid Ethiopia’s policy research and advocacy department. He also served as the legal department director and secretary of the board for United Insurance Co. A lawyer trained at Addis Ababa and Oxford Universities, Daniel Bekele worked to promote human rights and civil society in Africa in various capacities ranging from as a frontline human rights defender to senior level managerial and high level advocacy responsibilities.

Susan Benesch is Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She founded and directs the Dangerous Speech Project, to study speech that appears to increase the risk of intergroup violence - and to find ways to prevent this without infringing on freedom of expression. As part of this effort, she conducts research on methods to diminish harmful speech online, or its effects. Trained as a human rights lawyer at Yale, Benesch also teaches at American University’s School of International Service.

Jonathan Blake is a communications and media lawyer at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. He practiced in that field for over 50 years, headed the firm’s practice group in this field for several decades, was President of the Federal Communications Bar Association, served as Chairman of the Firm’s management committee for six years and was named to the list of American outstanding lawyers in that field and more generally over a period of several years. His practice included legislation, agency rulemakings and adjudications, major court cases, deal making and strategic advice. It also included advising foreign governments on their media and communications issues. He helped pioneer digital television for which the group received an Oscar and mobile phone services. He represents the Public Broadcasting Service and has taught classes at various American law schools. Jon has served as a judge for the Price Moot Courts in Oxford, New Delhi and Cairo. The Spirit of the Competition Award is named in his honour.

Chintan Chandrachud is an Associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, London. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and international arbitration. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and graduate degrees from Oxford and Yale. He writes frequently for journals, newspapers and blogs and is the author of ‘Balanced Constitutionalism: Courts and Legislatures in India and the United Kingdom’ (Oxford University Press, 2017).

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A one-day conference at the PCMLP to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Price Moot Court.

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Wenlong Li is a PhD researcher at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in big data and data protection. In the Edinburgh Law School, he works as a research assistant, tutor and moot coach. He is also an editor of the SCRIPTed, and a convenor of the IP/IT/Media Law Discussion Group. Wenlong is a qualified lawyer in China and has worked at Tencent Institute, focusing on internet law and policy. He was also a research fellow at the Centre of Media Law Studies where he principally led a research project on the right to be forgotten. He obtained his LL.B. and LL.M. (with distinction) at the China University of Political Science and Law. During his postgraduate studies in 2012-15, he has been trained in a cross-disciplinary research programme on law and journalism. Wenlong has closely engaged with the Price Moot community as an oralist (quarter-finalist, 2014), judge (int’l round, 2016) and coach (Edinburgh, 2017).

Rebecca Mackinnon is a leading advocate for the rights of internet users around the world. She is author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom (Basic Books, 2012) and is founder and director of New America’s Ranking Digital Rights project whose Corporate Accountability Index ranks the world’s most powerful internet, mobile and telecommunications companies on their policies and practices affecting users’ freedom of expression and privacy. MacKinnon also co-founded the citizen media network Global Voices, a borderless community of writers, digital media experts, activists and translators. She was a founding Board member of the Global Network Initiative and is currently on the Board of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, MacKinnon was CNN’s Beijing Bureau Chief from 1998-2001 and Tokyo Bureau Chief from 2001-2003. More recently, she has taught at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

She has held fellowships at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center and Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the Open Society Foundations, Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, and the New America Foundation. MacKinnon received her AB magna cum laude from Harvard University and was a Fulbright scholar in Taiwan. She lives in Washington DC.

Jeremy Olivier is Head of Internet Policy at Ofcom; he is responsible for a range of issues, including the evolution of audiovisual media regulation, net neutrality, and the regulation of OTT services. His current focus is on the EU Digital Single Market programme, and in particular the revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive; OTT regulation in the revised Electronic Communications Code; and the implementation of the EU Telecoms Single Market Regulation (e.g. net neutrality regulation). Before Ofcom he worked at the BBC, providing strategic advice to the Directors of the BBC’s Online and Television Services.

Gill Phillips is the Director of Editorial Legal Services for Guardian News & Media Limited (publishers of the Guardian and Observer newspapers and theguardian.com). She was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor in 1984 with the law firm Coward (now Clifford) Chance. She joined the BBC as an in-house lawyer in 1987, later working for News Group Newspapers and Times Newspapers, where she advised on pre- and post-publication legal issues, including around defamation, open justice, contempt of court, privacy and national security. She moved to Guardian News & Media in May 2009 and has advised on phone-hacking, Wikileaks, the Leveson Inquiry, the NSA leaks from Edward Snowden and more recently the HSBC files and the Panama Papers. She also sits as a part-time Employment Tribunal Judge and co-authors the University of Law Employment Law handbook. She is a non-resident fellow of the Centre for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University School of Public Policy and holds an honorary law doctorate from London South Bank University.

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Jacob Rowbottom is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Oxford and Fellow of University College, Oxford. He writes widely on issues relating to freedom of speech, media law and political participation. He is the author of Democracy Distorted (2010).

Laura Scaife is a data privacy, cyber and social media specialist and advises an enviable range of FTSE 100 clients who consistently praise her pragmatic advice on some of the UK’s most significant and innovative data projects. In addition to her role as Managing Director of Datultacy, she is a PhD candidate. She is also the author of The Handbook of Social Media and the Law described as “the seminal text in the area”, “an “expertly written book” and concludes that “this text is going to be a hugely influential ‘must –have’ . Regularly sought out to speak at industry seminars, she has also appeared on the BBC, Radio 4 and Channel 4. She has been featured in The Lawyer Magazine as a “star legal writer”, named as “the one to watch” in the Cambridge Judge Business School and LexisNexis - Achievements of Women in Law 2015.

Bernard Shen is an Assistant General Counsel in the Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs department at Microsoft Corporation. His work focuses particularly on Microsoft’s policy and practice relating to freedom of expression, privacy and other human rights across its products and services, and on engagement with external stakeholders on human rights issues and policies. Bernard has also provided legal support for various Microsoft products and technologies including Windows, cloud services, silicon technology, and health solutions. Bernard serves as Co-Chair of the Policy Committee of the Global Network Initiative, and as Chair of the International Practice Section of the Washington State Bar Association

Before joining Microsoft, Bernard was an in-house attorney at a leading e-commerce company in the U.S., and before that practiced law at a law firm where his practice focused on business and IP transactions, particularly in the mobile network operator industry. He worked in a business capacity in the telecommunication industry before becoming an attorney.

Bernard received his JD from Northwestern University School of Law, MBA from Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management, and B. Commerce from the University of Toronto.

Dirk Voorhoof is an Emeritus Professor at Ghent University, Belgium. He is a member of the Executive Board of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) in Leipzig, Germany, the Human Rights Centre at the Law Faculty of Ghent University and the Global FOE&I @Columbia experts network, Columbia University, New York. Since 2005 he is lecturing Media Law at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH, Denmark) and from 1995 to 2005 he was a member of the Federal Commission for Access to Administrative Documents in Belgium. Among his recent publications: “Freedom of Expression, Media and Journalism under the European Human Rights System: Characteristics, Developments, and Challenges”, in P. Molnár (ed.), Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe, Central European University Press, Budapest - New York, 2015, and “Freedom of Journalistic Newsgathering, Access to Information and Protection of Whistle-blowers under Article 10 ECHR and the standards of the Council of Europe”, in Council of Europe, Journalism at Risk. Threats, Challenges and Perspectives, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2015, 105-143.

This conference is kindly supported by funding from Google. However, the editorial control of and responsibility for the conference remains entirely with the PCMLP.

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Amostra is a small country with an unstable political history. The majority of inhabitants are members of two major religious groups, 30% Yona and 70% Zasa.

Amostra has experienced increased social unrest in the past five years, as members of the Yona religious minority maintain that the primarily Zasa-led government has systematically subjected Yona people to various forms of discrimination.

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The column accuses the Prime Minister and other members of the Zasa sect of corruption and human rights violations against Yona people, and calls the August election a sham for Zasa political gain. The column concludes by echoing calls by other anti-government Amostrans for an active but peaceful Day of Resistance on August 1. The column was read by many citizens of Amostra, the vast majority accessing the column via SeeSey.

On the called-for Day of Resistance, at a largely peaceful public protest, participants held signs and chanted in support of Yona-affiliated candidates. However, a minority of the Yona sect demonstrators chanted hard-line political messages, set fire to a Zasa religious building frequented by leading government officials, and attacked law enforcement who tried to prevent the arson attack. Although there was no evidence that the attackers had read Ballaya’s column, they chanted words used in the column.

Ballaya was arrested and marked as an organizer of the protest in connection with her column. She was found guilty of offences under the SIA and ESA and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and fined $300,000. An Amostran court also issued an order against SeeSey requiring it to remove “all offensive content replicating or relating to Ballaya’s column, including comments made by users of SeeSey, so that such content is no longer accessible anywhere on SeeSey from any location worldwide, including in Amostra and Sarranto. Both Ballaya’s conviction and the order against SeeSey were upheld in Amostra’s Supreme Court, exhausting their domestic appeals.

Ballaya and SeeSey challenge these verdicts in the Universal Freedom of Expression Court, and the Court has certified their appeals on four discrete issues:

a. Whether Amostra’s prosecution of Ballaya under the SIA violates international principles, including Article 19 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights (“UDHR”) and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (“ICCPR”).

b. Whether Amostra’s prosecution of Ballaya under the ESA violates international principles, including Article 19 UDHR and Article 19 of the ICCPR.

c. Whether Amostra has jurisdiction to obtain and enforce the civil order against SeeSey in Amostra and Sarranto.

d. Whether Amostra’s civil order against SeeSey violates international principles, including Article 19 of UDHR and Article 19 of the ICCPR.

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In 2014 the government of Amostra enacted the Stability and Integrity Act (SIA) prohibiting extremist or anti-patriotic statements. The SIA also prohibits any person from distributing, hosting or caching, or acting as a conduit for statements or materials outlawed under the Act. The Act is made applicable to statements physically distributed in Amostra, or addressed to Amostra residents. The SIA also requires all media organisations providing content to citizens of Amostra to register with the Ministry of Defense and consult with the Ministry on a quarterly basis on content distributed.

SeeSey is a social media platform that allows users to post content and also share or comment on posts they see. SeeSey accounts are free, and all content is publicly visible to anyone who is logged into an account. The platform is accessible worldwide, including in Amostra. Because of media censorship and political instability, citizens of Amostra have particularly embraced SeeSey’s social media platform as a source of news and discourse. SeeSey has its headquarters and hosts all worldwide data on servers in Sarranto, a country located more than 1000 miles from Amostra. SeeSey promotes the use of its platform by Amostran businesses through its subsidiary company, SeeSALES, which is headquartered and has its sole office in Amostra.

SeeSey, however, does not maintain a media operating license in Amostra, and the Ministry of Defense has never asked SeeSey to register.

Following an extended period of anti-government protests, on June 6, 2016, the Prime Minister of Amostra announced that general elections would be held in 60 days. On the same day, the National Election Authority, a group of government-appointed regulators responsible for managing Amostra’s elections, announced restrictions on elections-related speech under the Election Safety Act (ESA). The ESA prohibits demonstrations of more than ten (10) people on public streets within 30 days of a general election, where participants spread an extremist

or seditious message, or seek to incite hatred, violence, or disrupt the democratic process. The ESA imposes a fine for attending such a demonstration, and stipulates a fine or term of imprisonment for inciting a prohibited demonstration.

Blenna Ballaya, an Amostran citizen residing in Sarranto, regularly writes about political matters on her famous blog. In light of her popularity, The Ex-Amostra Times (“The Times”), a Sarranto-based domestic newspaper popular with Amostran immigrants, paid Ballaya to write a one-time column as an opinion contributor. Ballaya’s column was published on July 7, 2016, in The Times print edition, on The Times website, and on The Times’ account on SeeSey.

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The seventh annual South Asia Regional Rounds, hosted in partnership with the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi, took place from 17 to 20 November, 2016 in Delhi.Overall Winner National Law School of India University, Bangalore

Runner-up National Law Institute University, Bhopal

Best Memorials NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad

Best Oralist Kruthika N.S, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences

Spirit of the Competition Award Allame Tabataba’i University, Iran

Qualifying Teams National Law School of India University, Bangalore National Law Institute University, Bhopal University of Management Sciences, Pakistan University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

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The fourth annual Asia-Pacific Regional Rounds (formerly China National Rounds), hosted in partnership with Renmin University, took place from 30th November – 2nd December 2016 in Beijing.

Overall Winner University of San Carlos, Philippines

Runner-up Lyceum of the Philippines University, Philippines

Best Memorials University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines

Best Memorials Runner-up Lyceum of the Philippines University, Philippines

Best Oralist Tan Raya Grace from University of the Philippines Diliman

Best Oralists Runner-up Huang Zhuozhuo and Huang Xuanxuan from Renmin University of China

Qualifying Teams Hainan University, ChinaLyceum of the Philippines University, PhilippinesUniversity of International Business and Economics, ChinaUniversity of the Philippines Diliman, PhilippinesUniversity of San Carlos, Philippines

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The fifth annual South East Europe Regional Rounds, hosted in partnership with the University of Zagreb, took place from the 16th – 18th December 2016.

Qualifying Teams Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary; University of Zagreb, Croatia; University of Belgrade, Serbia

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The Inaugural Regional North-East Europe Rounds hosted in partnership with Kyiv – Mohyla Academy and Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law, took place in Kyiv from 21st – 23rd December 2016.

Overall Winner University of Latvia, Latvia

Runner-up National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine

Best Memorials Vilnius University, Lithuania

Best Oralist Julija Gradauskaite, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Qualifying Teams University of Latvia, Latvia; National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine; Vilnius University, Lithuania; National University Odessa Law Academy, Ukraine

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The fifth annual Middle East Regional Rounds, hosted in partnership with Cairo University, and Ain Shams University took place from the 30th January – 2nd February in Cairo.

Overall Winner Ain Shams University, Egypt

Runner-up Cairo University, Egypt

Best Memorials Ain Shams University, Egypt

Best Memorials Runner-up Cairo University, Egypt

Best Oralist Ibrahim Sabra, Ain Shams University, Egypt

Qualifying Teams Ain Shams University, Egypt Cairo University, Egypt Notre Dame University, Lebanon

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The fifth annual Americas Regional Rounds, hosted in partnership with the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, took place from 25th – 29th January 2017 in New York.

Overall Winner University of Notre Dame Law School, USA

Runner-up Brooklyn Law School, USA

Best Memorials Brooklyn Law School, USA

Best Memorials Runner-up Regent University School of Law, USA

Best Oralist Brian Underwood, Duke University School of Law, USA

Best Oralist Runner-up Jodi-Ann Quarrie, University of Notre Dame Law School, USA

Qualifying Teams Brooklyn Law School, USA; Columbia Law School, USA Regent University School of Law, USA; University of Notre Dame Law School, USA; Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil York University: Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada

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The fifth Afghanistan National Rounds took place from 24th – 27th September 2016 Kabul.

Overall Winner Jawzjan University

Runner-up Kandahar University

Best Memorials Kandahar University

Best Oralists Setara Sakhizada and Shabana Faizi

Best Oralist in the Finals Mosa Salaman

Other Participating Teams Alberoni University Kunduz University Parwan University Takhar University

The inaugural West Africa Regional Round, hosted in partnership with University of Lagos, Nigeria took place from 6th – 8th February, 2017 in Lagos.

Overall Winner University of Lagos, Nigeria

Runner-up Empire African Institute, Ghana

Best Memorials University of Lagos, Nigeria

Best Memorials Runner-up Empire African Institute, Registered Centre, Ghana

Best Oralist Elizabeth Nwarueze, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Best Oralist Runner-up Ojo Timilehin, Lagos State University, Nigeria

Spirit of the Competition Award Lucky Okibe, Benue State University, Nigeria

Qualifying Teams University of Lagos, Nigeria Empire African Institute, Ghana Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

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Overall WinnerSingapore Management University, Singapore

Overall Winner Runner-UpJindal Global Law School, India

Semi-Finalists (in alphabetical order)

National Law Institute University, Bhopal, India

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Quarter-Finalists (in alphabetical order)

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada

University of Melbourne, Australia

University of Oxford, UK

Octo-Finalists (in alphabetical order)

Ain Shaims University, Egypt

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, USA

Brooklyn Law School, USA

National Law University, Delhi, India

Queen Mary University of London, UK

University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

University of Latvia, Latvia

University of Zagreb, Croatia

Best OralistMs Matea Perica, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Best Oralist Runner-UpMs Asmita Singhvi, Jindal Global Law School, India

Top Oralists3rd Twinkle Chawla, National Law Institute University, Bhopal

4th Rishabh Bajoria, Jindal Global Law School

5th Suriti Chowdhary, National Law Institute University, Bhopal

6th Agneta Rumpa, University of Latvia

7th Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj, National Law University, Delhi

8th Veda Handa, National Law University, Delhi

9th Palmer Hurst, Regent University School of Law

10th Obadia Ismail, Kampala International University

Best Oralist in the FinalMr Rishabh Bajoria, Jindal Global Law School, India

Best MemorialsSingapore Management University, Singapore

Best Memorials Runners-UpRegent University School of Law, USA

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PARTICIPATING TEAMS Ain Shams University, Egypt

Mr Ibrahim Ahmed SabraMr Mazen El-OmdahMr Mohammed AbdullahMs Moncia Magdy Mr Mostafa Abd El-AzizMs Yassmine Serry

Allame Tabataba’i University, Iran

Mr Hassan Vakilian (coach)Ms Fatemeh SarkheilMs Forough GhasemzadehMs Yasamansadat MirafshariehMs Bahareh GholizadehMr Seyedamirmohammad Arjmand

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, USA

Ms Jinah Roe (coach)Ms Linden MillerMs Norma EsquivelMr Thomas LavertyMs Heather KaufmanMs Nicolette VasileMr Elliot Rahimi

BRAC University, Bangladesh

Mr Farhaan Uddin Ahmed (coach)Ms Tasneem Binta KarimMs Kaniz Zinath

Brooklyn Law School, USA

Mr Jimmy Kang (coach)Ms Shieva SalehniaMs Erin CallihanMs Jaime FreilichMr Craig McAllisterMs Elyssa AbuhoffMs Taylor Lietz

Cairo University, Egypt

Mr Ahmed Abdel Hakeem (coach)Ms Mennatullah AbouzekryMs Sara SeodyMs Nourhan BeksawyMs Noura Abdelakher

Columbia Law School, USA

Mr Richard Winfield (coach) Ms Anna BaxendaleMs Monica HannaMr Alex WolinskyMr Sadaat Cheema

Empire African Institute, Ghana

Mr Israel Ackah (coach)Mr Russell Derek MensahMs Maame Serwaa Agyemang BonsuMr Samuel Kwadwo Owusu-AnsahMs Emmanuella Karikari AgyemanMs Nicola Allotey

Eötvös Loránd University Budapest Faculty of Law, Hungary

Dr Gosztonyi Gergely (coach)Ms Altziebler Dóra ZsuzsannaMs Kovács RenátaMr Rudinszky BalázsMr Zöldréti Szabolcs

Hainan University, ChinaMr Decai Wei (coach)Ms Xu TangMs Zhidan XiaMr Tianjue BianMr Zhengyu ShiMs Meimei WangMr Wangxiang Xu

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Ms Céline Mercedes Lalé (coach)Ms Desislava ShterevaMr Laszlo AustMr Jakob JochmannMr Nico André KiekebuschMs Charlotte Henriette PetraschMr Konstantinos Tsakiliotis

Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

Mr Khyzar Hussain (coach)Ms Naima QamarMs Orubah Sattar AhmedMs Najeeha RazaMr Hussain Azam CheemaMr Osama Shahid

Lyceum of the Philippines, College of Law, Philippines

Mr Gil Anthony Aquino (coach)Ms Ann Gillian TeroMs Diana Lou BoadoMs Maria Leonila VillegasMr Antonio Pagsibigan Jr.Mr. Lewellyn Judah Pasco

Makerere University Kampala, Uganda

Mr Moses BagumaMs Jacintah AkinoMs Denise KukundakweMs Sharlot NatukundaMr Roman Kato PeterMr Emmanuel Okiror

Moi University, Kenya Mr Joshua Mbinda Ngulu (coach)Mr James Mabuti MutuaMs Angela Minayo KidiavaiMr Alphacxid Kipchumba Nyorsok

National Law Institute University, Bhopal, India Ms Deepika YadavMr Shounak BanerjeeMr Mrinal Mishra

National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India

Mr Bhavesh SethMs Unnati GhiaMr Amol Mehta

National University Odesa Law Academy, Ukraine

Ms Anastasiia VorobiovaMs Yuliia Vavryshchuk

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Mr Maksym Dvorovyi (coach)Mr Mykola KolotyloMs Mariia NovikovaMs Sofiia ZdolynyMs Iryna Onyshchenko

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Mr Zhida Chen (coach) Ms Pei Wei TanMs Ashley LohMs Swathi BhatMr Elias Arun

Notre Dame de Louaize University, Lebanon

Mr Ghady El HattounyMs Stephany BadawiMs Lynn El ZoghbiMs Remy Hanna

Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

Mr Akorede Yusuff (coach)Ms Peace OnashileMr Oluwaseun AyansolaMs Toluwalope DadaMr Taofeeq TijaniMr Omotayo FabusiwaMr Elijah Joseph 31

Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada

Mr Faisal Bhabha (coach)Mr Luca LucariniMr Alexander EvangelistaMr Jacob KlugsbergMs Irina SamborskiMs Jessica Hardy-Henry

Queen Mary University of London, UK

Ms Ksenia Bakina (coach)Ms Alexa Adriazola BurgaMs Candace NantonMr Andrei RogacMr Zheng PanMr Jacob Lam

Regent University School of Law, USA

Mr Jeffrey Brauch (coach)Ms Kate SawyerMs Pamela DodgeMs Courtney Marasigan

Singapore Management University, SingaporeMr Kenny Lau (coach)Mr Teng Sheng SawMs Tracy GaniMr Lyndon ChooMr Chen Wei ChiaMs Kara QuekMs Jacintha Gopal

The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya

Mr Kivindyo Munyao (coach)Ms Amina Malyun MohamedMr Emmanuel Lekakeny Ntome Mr Frank King’ori Githumbi Ms Langat Phanice Chepkemoi

Uganda Christian University, Uganda

Mr Arnold Agaba (coach)Mr Atuhaire Davis BagonzaMs Yasmin AhmedMr Agustus Caesar SsenkumbaMs Daphine Namanya

University of Zagreb, Croatia

Ms Iva Kuštrak Managić (coach)Ms Kristina RudecMs Lea Huljenić

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Judge Willem Korthals Altes (coach)Mr Cees PlaizierMs Eugénie CocheMs Machteld Schulte NordholtMr Merlijn van Lindenberg

University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, Serbia

Mr Marko Zivanovic (coach)Ms Zorana BrujicMs Mina RadonjicMs Sara VilotijevicMr Stefan JugovicMr Aleksandar Stevanovic

University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Mr Abdalla Gonzi (coach)Mr Rayson LukaMs Rebecca MagonyoziMr Jonas MunyaragaMr Paul KisaboMr Alphaxard Jamhuri

University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mr Mohammad Nazmuzzaman Bhuian (coach)Mr Sayeed Hossain SarwarMr Ahasan HabibMr Mohammad Naimul HasanMs Salvia JannatMr Md Bayjid RayhanMs Maisha Tahsin

University of Edinbrugh, UK

Mr Wenlong Li (coach)Ms Aparajita AryaMs Lucía ZóboliMr Agha Ali DurraniMr Piyush Prakash Sharma

University of International Business and Economics, China

Mr Haiping Zheng (coach)Mr Dongcai ChenMs Fangning LiMs Boyang WangMs Xiaone FanMs Ruonan Jia

University of Lagos, Nigeria

Mr Iyabode Ogunniran (coach)Ms Ilamosi Ekenimoh Mr Tobi Olowokure Ms Tobi Oluwasanya Mr Ibrahim Mohammed Mr Gboyega Ahove Mr Bolaji Ogalu

University of Latvia, Latvia Mr Arturs Kucs (coach)Ms Julija ValpetereMs Monta KroneMs Ilze Ambrasa

University of Notre Dame, USA Ms Ruth CormicanMr Martins BirgelisMs Jodi-Ann QuarrieMr Rachana Chhin

University of Oxford, UK Ms Mansi Sood (coach)Ms Ioana BurteaMr Alex Benn

University of San Carlos, PhilippinesMr Daryl Bretch Largo (coach)Mr Vincent Joseph CesistaMr Rashid PandiMs Stephanie Marie Abigail OleaMs Tess Marie TanMr Jonah Mark Avila

University of São Paulo, Brazil

Mr Daniel Campos (coach)Ms Victoria Vormittag Ms Isabel TelesMr Gustavo Torrecilha Ms Mariana SonodaMs Maria Beatriz Previtali

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Mr Geoff Holland (coach)Mr Timothy WheatleyMs Annabel KirkbyMr Jason CorbettMr Zachary McLoughlin

University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines Mr Nicholas Felix Ty (coach)Ms Raya Grace TanMs Maria Alexandra Austria Mr Redmond Alejandro Lim Ms Hannah Lizette Manalili

Vilnius University Faculty of Law, Lithuania Ms Gintar Pažereckait (coach)Ms Rüta LipeikaitMs Patricija RukštelytMs Karolina JuodelytMs Elvina JurčiukonytMs Julija Gradauskait

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David Abel David is the founding Chairman and Managing Director of VerdeXchange - an environmental think tank, publisher, and clean and green technology event host (VerdeXchange.org). He also founded a California-based publisher and public policy consulting firm, ABL, Incorporated. Mr. Abel presently serves on, and chairs a number of boards, including: Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation; the Urban Land Institute and New Schools Better Neighborhoods. He lectured on regionalism at the University of California, San Diego, and chaired the University of Southern California’s School of Public Policy’s Bd. Of Overseers. He formerly served on the corporate boards of both SuperShuttle International and Western Water Company; and in a civic capacity, chaired both CalStart (Advanced Transportation Incubator) and California’s Trust for Public Lands’ Advisory Board. By appointment he was chairman of the California Assembly Speaker’s Blue Ribbon Commission to Consider Reforms of California’s Initiative Process & the Commission on State/Local Government Finance Reform. Mr. Abel has degrees from Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics); Occidental College (M.A. Urban Studies), Harvard Graduate School of Education (CAS and Ed.D. (ABT), Boston University (JD); and studied at the London School of Economics.

Omolola Agbaje-Williams Omolola is a specialist in Media, Entertainment and Intellectual Property Law. She was the recipient of the 2014 IBA Scholarship in the Intellectual Property,

Communication and Technology section. She is called to the Nigerian Bar and recently concluded her LLM degree with honours in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). She was a member of the QMUL team who were Semi-Finalists at the 2014 International Rounds of the Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition.

Andrea Ajibade Andrea is the Regional Coordinator for the Price Moot Court Regional Rounds in Lagos and also Country Representative (Nigeria) for the Commonwealth Legal Education Association, UK. She is a lecturer and doctoral candidate at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Nigeria, where she teaches legal methods and oil and gas law. She is a graduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and the University of East London. Andrea is a member of the Bar of England and Wales and Middle Temple Inn of Court where she holds the Blackstone Prize, Exhibitioners’ Award and Montague Prize. She is a Barrister-Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and an External Associate with SPA Ajibade and Co, a leading commercial law firm in Nigeria where she combines a consultancy practice with her teaching and research. She was the first to coach a team from UNILAG for the 9th Price Media Moot in 2016.

Sabah Albawi Sabah is the Secretary General of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, he has been instrumental to the successful mobilization of journalists and civil society activists around issues relating to freedom of expression and human rights in Iraq. Previous university lecturer, juridical expert at the research center of the Iraqi parliament and director general of the juridical directorate, he is now the general juridical representative of the parliament.

Thiago Alves Pinto Thiago holds an LLB (Hons.) from Centro Universitário Curitiba (Brazil) and a Master’s Degree in International Human Rights Law from Abo Akademi University (Finland). He is currently in the second year of his DPhil in Law, researching on the topic of offence to religious belief in International Human Rights Law, and is the Graduate Teaching Assistant for Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. Thiago has been actively involved with NGOs and international organizations, having worked with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief and at the International Organization for Migration on human rights projects. In 2015, he co-authored the UNESCO report: “Countering Online Hate Speech”, and more recently contributed as an advisor for a study on Countering Extremism Online, organised by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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Chinmayi Arun Chinmayi is Executive Director of the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi, where she is also an Assistant Professor of Law. She is a member of the Indian Government’s multi stakeholder advisory group for the India Internet Governance Forum and has been a consultant to the Law Commission of India. A Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Centre at Harvard University she has published academic papers on surveillance and the right to privacy in India, and on information gatekeeper liability in the context of internet intermediaries. She is lead author of the India country report in Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net report for 2014 and 2015, and of the India report in the Global Network of Centres’ study of online intermediaries. Chinmayi has studied at the NALSAR University of Law, and London School of Economics and Political Science. At the LSE, she read regulatory theory and new media regulation, and was awarded the Bernard Levin Award for Student Journalism. She has worked with Ernst & Young and AZB & Partners, Mumbai, and has taught at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences where she introduced courses on regulatory theory and communication regulation. She teaches courses on information policy and Internet Governance at National Law University Delhi.

David Attfield David is a respected media lawyer with over 20 years’ experience gained in leading law firms and at the BBC. Since September 2014, David has headed the BBC’s Programme Legal Advice Department and gives pre-publication advice across the BBC’s output including on programmes

such as Panorama and Have I Got News For You. Prior to his current role, David worked for around 10 years in the BBC’s Litigation Department, defending the corporation in substantial libel claims (Mori v BBC; Taranissi v BBC) and acting in leading cases concerning open justice and the independence of journalists. David’s private practice experience was gained at Lovells and Olswang where he acted for Guardian Newspapers, Northern and Shell and Marks & Spencer among others in substantial media cases. David is an active committee member of the Media Lawyers Association.

Nathaniel L. Bach Nathaniel is an associate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Los Angeles, where he specializes in commercial litigation, government investigations, and information technology and data privacy. He spent two years seconded to Gibson Dunn’s London office.

Rob Balin Rob is a media law partner at Davis Wright Tremaine in New York. For three decades Rob has been providing courtroom representation and media law counselling to news organizations, broadcasters, publishers, journalists and NGOs on matters involving freedom of expression, libel, privacy and copyright. Rob co-chairs the International Bar Association’s Media Law Committee and frequently writes on international media law issues. He also teaches media law to the next generation as an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School. Rob currently serves as a board member of the Media Law Resource Center’s Defense Counsel Section. He is also a board member of the MLRC Institute and immediate past chair of the MLRC International Media Law Committee.

Surya Banerjee Surya is currently on the Master of Science in Law and Finance program at Oxford. Prior to Oxford, he was a Corporate/M&A attorney in India. He was actively involved in mooting in law school, winning individual and team awards at several national and international moot court competitions, such as the Willem C. Vis Moot in Vienna. He has also judged several competitions since graduating from law school, including the Willem C. Vis Moot in Hong Kong.

Joan Barata Joan is an international expert in freedom of expression, media freedom and media regulation. He provides regular assistance to different international organizations and entities, including the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the European Broadcasting Union, the Organization of American States, UNESCO and USAID among others. Dr Barata is an affiliate to the Center for Global Communication Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Fellow at the Centre for Internet and Human Rights at European University Viadrina.

Tahir Basheer Tahir is an entertainment and technology partner at the leading entertainment and media law firm Sheridans. His practice has a particular focus on the convergence of creative content and technology, advising a range of corporate and private clients within the UK and abroad on everything from the development of new business models and distribution channels, through to the management, exploitation and protection of their trademarks and brands.

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Tahir’s clients include international corporate entities, start-up technology companies, creative and digital agencies, entrepreneurs, social media talent, high net-worth individuals, musicians, designers and creative industry management teams. Tahir is a guest lecturer at Queen Mary University and Berklee College of Music and has appeared as a judge on various Technology Strategy Board competitions. He is also a Global board member on the Fund for Global Human Rights and a trustee for the Mobo Trust.

Anna Beke-Martos Anna is a lawyer specialising in intellectual property, media and entertainment law. She leads her own independent legal practice in Budapest, Hungary, which she established at the age of 26. She represents a broad range of international clients in both transactional and contentious cases in the film, TV, music, theatre, software and other creative industries, drawing on experience she gained in New York, London, Warsaw, Vienna and Stuttgart. She has taught media law at the University of Film and Theatre Arts and advocacy at ELTE Law School in Budapest. She competed in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and later coached teams for various international competitions. She has acted as a moot court judge i.a. in Washington D.C., Paris, Milan and Vienna. She studied law in five jurisdictions and she is fluent in six languages.

Monika Bickert Monika is Facebook’s Head of Product Policy. Her global team manages the policies for what types of content can be shared on Facebook and how advertisers and developers can interact with the site. Monika originally joined Facebook in 2012 as lead security counsel, advising the company on matters including child safety and data security. Prior to joining Facebook, Monika served as Resident Legal Advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, where she specialized in Southeast Asian rule of law development and response to child exploitation and human trafficking. She also served as Assistant United States Attorney for eleven years in Washington, DC, and Chicago, prosecuting federal crimes ranging from public corruption to gang-related violence. Monika received a B.A. in Economics and English from Rice University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Jon Blake Jon is a communications and media lawyer at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. He practiced in that field for over 50 years, headed the firm’s practice group in this field for several decades, was President of the Federal Communications Bar Association, served as Chairman of the Firm’s management committee for six years and was named to the list of American outstanding lawyers in that field and more generally over a period of several years. His practice included legislation, agency rulemakings and adjudications, major court cases, deal making and strategic advice. It also included advising foreign governments on their media and communications issues.

He helped pioneer digital television for which the group received an Oscar and mobile phone services. He represents the Public Broadcasting Service and has taught classes at various American law schools. Jon has served as a judge for the Price Moot Courts in Oxford, New Delhi and Cairo. The Spirit of the Competition Award is named in his honour.

Elan Blutinger Elan is a long-time resident of Washington, D.C., and has been a Managing Director of Alpine Consolidated, LLC, a merchant bank focused on emerging entrepreneurial companies. He has served on the board of and founded multiple publicly-traded travel technology companies in the US and the UK including Hotels.Com. He currently serves as the Chairman and CEO of Washington, DC based, AudioNow, the world’s largest call-to-listen mobile broadcasting technology platform serving 5,000+ global and regional broadcasters. Mr. Blutinger served as a National Finals judge for 5 years for “We The People” a national competition among publicly-funded schools in the 50 states focusing on pressing questions of constitutional governance. He served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Washington International School in Washington, D.C. He is a board member of the Hirondelle USA foundation dedicated to open and sustainable media access particular in conflict zones. He served as Vice-Chairman of Our Time.Org, a bipartisan youth advocacy group focused on political engagement for millennial of voting age. He holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from American University and an M.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Nicolas BratzaNicolas is a graduate of Oxford University, was called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn (of which he is a Bencher) in 1969 and practised as a barrister specialising in commercial, public and human rights law. He was appointed as a Junior Counsel to the Crown in 1978 and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1988. In 1993 he was elected as the United Kingdom member of the European Commission of Human Rights. In 1998 he was appointed a judge of the High Court and elected as the first United Kingdom judge of the permanent European Court of Human Rights. In the same year, he was elected as one of the Section Presidents of the Court and in 2007 was elected as one of the Court’s two Vice-Presidents. In 2011 he was elected as President of the Court, a post he held until his retirement from the Court and from the High Court in October 2012. He is a member of the International Commission of Jurists, Chairman of the British Institute of Human Rights and a member of the Boards of the Helen Bamber Foundation and of the International Service for Human Rights in Geneva. He holds Honorary Doctorates of the Universities of Essex and Glasgow. He is an Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and an Honorary Bencher of Kings Inns, Dublin.

Kirsty Brimelow Kirsty is the head of the Doughty Street’s International Human Rights Team. A Bencher of Gray’s Inn, she specialises in international human rights, criminal law and public international law. An experienced trial barrister, she has defended defendants and acted for Claimants as a junior and then as Queen’s Counsel before the Criminal, Civil courts, Courts of Appeal and Supreme Court

in England and Wales, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, Courts Martial and Courts of Appeal in the Caribbean, the Court of Appeal in the British Virgin Islands, the European Court of Human Rights and the High Court in Gibraltar. Kirsty frequently advises before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the ECOWAS court in Abuja Nigeria, the Court of Appeal of Nigeria, the Courts of Colombia and the UN judicial processes and International Criminal Court. She has represented two Chief Justices and one former President. She headed a team proposing FGM protection orders and worked upon the drafting of the legislation. Kirsty has trained on freedom of expression rights in Zimbabwe and is a former Judge of the Index Freedom of Expression Awards. Kirsty defended in the first murder case in the UK where the defence was heard “in camera” on grounds of national security. She defended in the first “juryless trial” in England and Wales. Kirsty is a consultant to Unicef Nigeria in child rights and an accredited mediator. She is facilitating dialogue between San José de Apartadó Comunidad de Paz and the Colombian government and working to support the peace process. Kirsty is a regular legal commentator in the media and writes for The Times.

Paolo Cavaliere Paolo is a Lecturer in Digital Media and IT Law at the University of Edinburgh Law School, where he teaches courses in telecommunications law, international and European media law, freedom of speech, and electronic commerce law at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Paolo is currently a member of SCRIPT, a law and technology research centre based in the School of Law

within the University of Edinburgh, a research associate at the University of Oxford’s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy and a non-resident research fellow of the Central European University’s Center for Media, Data and Society. Further to his academic activity, he is admitted to the Bar in Italy (non-practising) and has provided expertise on telecommunications and media law to a range of NGOs and international organisations, including the African Union’s Mission to Somalia and the Council of Europe among others.

Kristina Cendic Kristina holds a PhD in media law, dealing with freedom of expression, defamation and online sphere. Kristina worked as Annenberg Local Program Coordinator in Bosnia and Herzegovina and managed all media law and policy activities within the project in B-H. Kristina is currently working with several law faculties in B-H which organize workshops on freedom of expression, and she is also conducting trainings for high school students in Serbia regarding the position of children and minors on social networks.

Sydney Chawatama Sydney was called to the Bar in 1994 and is a barrister at 1 Crown Office Row in London. His practice includes clinical negligence and personal injury. He is developing a specialist interest in international arbitration and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He holds an LL.B first class honours degree in English and European Law from the University of Essex and was an Erasmus scholar at Copenhagen Business School.

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David Cheifetz David has an LLB from Osgoode Law School, an LLM from the University of Toronto 2012, Bar Memberships, 1977 Law Society of Upper Canada, Ontario, Canada and 2013 Law Society of British Columbia, Canada. He is currently an MSt (Legal Research) candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and a member of St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. He has almost 40 years of trial and appellate experience in Canada primarily on behalf of property and casualty insurers or their insureds and other institutional clients. David is the author of: leading articles, in Canada, on causation and comparative fault (contribution, contributory fault, apportionment) in tort and other tort issues; Cheifetz “Apportionment of Fault in Tort” (1981) which is still cited in Canadian judgments; other civil procedure and insurance issues. Generally recognized as one of the Canadian legal profession’s experts on causation and comparative fault (contribution, contributory fault, apportionment) in tort. Occasional contributor and speaker at continuing legal education conferences on insurance and tort issues.

Antonina Cherevko Antonina is a Law Reform Adviser and Project Manager with the International Media Support (IMS). She has been with IMS since 2008 leading programs and initiatives in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. Cherevko is a respected human rights lawyer with a deep knowledge of the Eurasia politics and media sector. She is a member of the Independent Media Council in Ukraine. Cherevko has over 10 years of professional experience in international development field, and before IMS she worked with IREX

and OSCE in Kyiv, Ukraine. She was a participant in the 2010 Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute and performed as one of the judges at the oral rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition throughout 2011-2016. Cherevko holds an MA in Law from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine and is currently enrolled in the part-time MSt course in International Human Rights Law of the University of Oxford. Cherevko speaks fluent English, Ukrainian, and Russian, communicates in French, and understands Belarusian and Polish.

Jonathan Cockfield Jonathan is a fourth seat trainee in the dispute resolution team of Gibson Dunn’s London office. He read law at Oriel College, Oxford and completed my LL.M at Hughes Hall, Cambridge. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn he was the Parliamentary Assistant to a Government minister and lectured on the law of equity and trusts at King’s College London.

André Coore André is a Legal Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica where he advises on a range of international law issues. He holds a B.Sc. and an LLB with honours from the University of Technology, Jamaica and the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill in Barbados as well as a Legal Education Certificate from the Norman Manley Law School, Jamaica. He was an Adjunct Tutor at the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, Mona where he coached teams participating in various moot court competitions including the Price Media Law Moot Court. He is currently pursuing an LLM in Public International Law at University College London (UCL).

Neville Cordell Neville is a partner at Allen & Overy LLP where he specialises in IP and media litigation and acted in the first ‘Napster’ copyright infringement case in the UK. He holds an LL.M. with Distinction in Intellectual Property and Media Law from King’s College, London.

Ian Cram Ian is Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law with an especial interest in freedom of expression controversies. Recent publications include Citizen Journalists (Edward Elgar, 2016) and ‘Amending the Constitution’ (2015) Legal Studies. In 2014 he acted as an adviser to the Law Commission in its work on (i) Scandalising the Court (ii) Contempt of Court. Ian is the series editor for the latest edition of Borrie & Lowe, The Law of Contempt 4th edn. He has also appeared before the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee to give evidence on (i) Cabinet Manual and (ii) The case for a written constitution.

Richard Danbury Richard practised, briefly, as a criminal barrister at 9-12 Bell Yard, before spending a decade at the BBC, working mainly in TV news and current affairs, including extended periods on Newsnight and Panorama. He was the Deputy Editor of the BBC’s 2010 Prime Ministerial Debate. He was a fellow of Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, before embarking on a masters and a doctorate which studied the position of institutional journalism and journalists in English law, both from a doctrinal and theoretical point of view. He continues to be interested both in

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the legal position of the institutional media, and in questions of comparative freedom of speech, privacy, and intellectual property, particularly in an on-line environment, both in respect of the institutional media and more generally. To this end, he has been a researcher on the Ranking Digital Rights project, and a post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge University’s Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL). He is the principal lecturer in the Channel 4 MA in investigative journalism at De Montfort University in Leicester. He remains a consultant at Oxford’s Programme for Comparative Media Law and Policy, and an associate of CIPIL at Cambridge.

Francesca Fanucci Francesca is a lawyer in international and EU law, specialising in freedom of expression and comparative media law. She is a member of Internews’ Internet Freedom Expert Register and has consulted, inter alia, for the American Bar Association, ARTICLE 19, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, the Open Society Foundations, Access Info Europe and International Media Support. She is also a surveyor of e-governance policies for the E-Governance Institute at the School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University-Newark, New Jersey, US. She has been a legal analyst and researcher in corporate law for global and European public affairs consultancies in Europe, North and West Africa, the United States and South America. She has co-authored ‘WikiLeaks, Secrecy and Freedom of Information: The Case of the UK’, in Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism and Society (Palgrave-MacMillan 2013)

and ‘Digital Television in Italy: From Analogue to Digital Duopoly?’ in the January 2013 issue of the International Journal of Digital Television.

Gemmo Fernandez Gemmo obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 2016. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics in Finance from the Ateneo de Manila University in 2011. His Juris Doctor thesis dealt on the issue of the regulation of online hate speech. He also received the Froilan Bacungan Prize for Freedom of Expression from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 2016 for his research on Philippine intermediary liability. Gemmo was part of the Philippine team that won the Price Moot Court Competition in 2015. He also represented his school in the Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2014, in the Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court in 2015, and in the International Criminal Court Moot Competition in 2016.

Pauline Gairanod Pauline received her law degree from the University of the Philippines in 2016. Her team emerged as the over-all champion of the 2015 Price Media Law Moot Court International Rounds where she was also awarded Best Speaker of the Finals and 4th Best Speaker in the Top Ten. That same year, her team also won the Asia Pacific rounds. Prior to that, she was awarded the Justice Ines Luciano Best Mooter Prize in the Philippine rounds of the International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition. She is presently an underbar associate of Villaraza and Angangco Law.

Lieve Gies Lieve is an Associate Professor in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester. Her main research area concerns the relationship between law and various media. Current research interests include the representation of human rights law in the British and European press and the use of social media in miscarriage of justice campaigns. She is author of Mediating Human Rights: Media, Culture and Human Rights Law (2014) (Abingdon: Routledge) and Law and the Media: The Future of an Uneasy Relationship (2008) (London: Routledge-Cavendish). She recently co-edited (with M. Bortoluzzi) Transmedia Crime Stories: The Trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the Globalised Media Sphere (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). In January 2017, she took up a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to research ‘Coverage of human rights law in European newspapers: A comparative analysis’.

Clive Gringras Clive has been a partner at Olswang since 2000 and is its Head of Technology. He is an international-facing contentious and commercial technology lawyer working with Global 100 companies. Clive is trusted by these companies on high-stakes matters ranging from first-of-a-kind litigation to technology-rich cross-border transactions. He is particularly experienced working with US tech companies looking to rollout their technology and e-commerce offerings across EMEA and on the practical implications of data protection and privacy legislation. He was awarded Microsoft’s inaugural Law Firm Leader of the Year. Clive is also a well-respected commentator; his book, The Laws of the Internet, now in

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Olga Grygorovska Olga obtained her first Master’s degree in international law in Ukraine. After which she worked on high-profile cases as a leading expert in the Office of the Government Agent before the European Court of Human Rights where she received an award of Ministry of Justice of Ukraine for individual achievements in performance of democracy and law governed state development, and excellent performance of official duties. While working at the OSCE Rule of Law Unit she coordinated development of distance learning courses on the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights for judges in Ukraine. Whilst reading for the LLM degree in Human Rights Law at Queen Mary University of London she worked as a legal intern at European Human Rights Advocacy Centre conducting legal research on wide range of topics and was actively involved in the ongoing cases before the European Court of Human Rights. Currently she works as a Reporter for Oxford University Press.

Letícia Haertel Letícia has a vast experience on moots courts. She was awarded, amongst others, the “Overall Winner” prize at the Nelson Mandela Moot Court Competition and the “Best Memorial” prize at the Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court.

She also represented her university at the American and International rounds of the Price Media Law Moot. She is currently a recipient of the DAAD “Junge Juristen aus Brasilien” scholarship and pursues a double-degree at the University of São Paulo and Ludwig-Maximillian Universität München. She is a founder and director of the study group “International Organizations Study Lab” and a director of the study group “Mooting and Human Rights” at the University of São Paulo.

Dominic C Harrison Before moving to London to work at Channel 4’s award winning Legal and Compliance Department in 2006, Dominic was a partner in the top-rated litigation department in Scotland. Dominic has advised on a diverse range of programmes and films including many Dispatches and Unreported Worlds, and the Sri Lanka Killing Fields series, Escape from Isis, The Murder Trial, The Paedophile Hunter, Cyberbully, Spies, Walking the Americas. The role played by and the expertise of lawyers in the Legal and Compliance Department is crucial to assisting Channel 4 in producing innovative, challenging and yet defensible programmes. They are brought in to advise creatively at the early stages of projects across every department and genre and have evolved a way of working with editors and programme makers designed to push the boundaries, achieve the Channel’s creative imperatives and not leave the Corporation vulnerable to successful regulatory or legal challenge. The department’s reputation as enablers means they are trusted by programme makers, editors and across the industry.

Shruti Hiremath Shruti holds an LL.M. in global business laws from New York University, an LL.M. in corporate and financial services laws from National University of Singapore and a B.A., LL.B (Hons.) from National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. She is admitted to practice in India, England & Wales and the State of New York. She has also been a member of the Brussels Bar. She presently works in the competition law team at Slaughter and May in London, having previously worked with Allen & Overy LLP in London and Brussels. She was a member of the winning team of the 2010-11 the Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition Regional Rounds in South Asia.

Pádraig Hughes Pádraig is Legal Director at the Media Legal Defence Initiative, an organisation that litigates cases on behalf of journalists, bloggers and independent media around the world. Previously he worked at a law firm in London specialising in international human rights law, international humanitarian law and public law, at an NGO litigating cases involving extraordinary rendition, torture, arbitrary detention, and discrimination, and as a barrister practising criminal law and refugee law. He holds an MA, MLitt (Dub.) and LLB (Lond.) and has been called to the Bar of England and Wales, and the Bar of Ireland.

Deepak Jacob Deepak is President & General Counsel of Star TV group in India, as such, he is responsible for all legal & regulatory matters that impact Star’s businesses in India. He also manages the government

relations portfolio along with the CEO for Star and is the point person for all policy and strategic matters involving the government of India & the regulators. As a lawyer, he has rich and varied work experience across a variety of industry sectors such as Media, Telecom, Information Tech and ecommerce businesses.

David Kanaan David is an LLM student at SOAS concentrating in international comparative commercial law with a dissertation in copyright. In addition, David is a managing editor of the SOAS Law Journal and Blog. Prior to studying at SOAS, David worked as an attorney in New York City dealing mostly with administrative and real estate law matters. He completed his BA in Philosophy from Union college where he served as Editor in Chief of the Ephemeris philosophy journal. David went to Law School at Pace University in New York where he received a Juris Doctor with a certification in International Law. During law school, he clerked for multiple judges including the Appeals Chamber at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

Mukhtar Karim Mukhtar is in-house Legal Counsel at MBNL, a telecommunications joint venture between Hutchison 3G and EE Limited where he is responsible for the delivery of Hutchison 3G’s 4G delivery program and the Emergency Services Contract for the world’s first use of a commercial 4G network for by emergency services personnel. Prior to joining MBNL, Mukhtar worked at top 50 firms in the City of London advising clients such as Google Inc and Land Securities.

Mukhtar Karim has facilitated globally on leadership development programs in North America, Europe and Africa and engages in political engagement programs to get marginalised constituents better represented in the political process. He is a certified MBTI practitioner and leads social activism workshops with High School students.

Sophie Kay Sophie is a Paralegal at Himsworths Legal, a Media and Sports law firm. She assists clients on matters relating to media law – including libel, privacy and copyright, as well assisting retained clients with contractual, dispute resolution, social media and other matters. Sophie is a Jules Thorn Scholar of The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, and undertook the Bar Professional Training Course at BPP Law School, following on from her LL.B. (Hons) at the University of Bristol. As a Vocalise volunteer, Sophie has taught prisoners at H.M.P Send and H.M.P Feltham Parliamentary debating, and is currently a Workshop Volunteer for The Schools Consent Project. She is also on the committee (Membership Secretary) for Human Rights Network. Sophie worked as the Editorial Assistant to Sir David Eady and Patricia Londono on the fifth edition of ‘Arlidge, Eady & Smith on Contempt’, and has authored articles discussing human rights and topical media law issues for the NGO ‘Right for Education’, and for Inforrm.

Ahmed F. Khalifa Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of Law at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He obtained his PhD in International Criminal Law from Poitiers University, France after

finishing his LLM in Temple University, USA. For years Ahmed has served as a consultant with several UN organizations and the International Committee of the Red Cross on various issues of human rights, violence against women and International humanitarian law. He is the Deputy Secretary General of the International Association of Penal Law.

David Kwok David is a DPhil candidate in Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford. He is qualified as a lawyer in Australia and Hong Kong. He is a law graduate of the universities of Hong Kong, Tsinghua, and Oxford.

Linda Lakhdhir Linda is a legal advisor in the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch focusing on the criminalization of speech and assembly in the region. In that capacity, she has analysed laws restricting speech and assembly in countries including Malaysia, India, Singapore, and Myanmar. She is a former criminal prosecutor for the US Justice Department in New York, where she served as coordinator of civil rights prosecutions and then as Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force. She has taught U.S. criminal, constitutional, and civil rights law at Gakushuin University in Tokyo; served as the president of the Foreign Women Lawyers Association of Japan; and co-headed a program to provide pro bono legal services to foreign workers in Tokyo. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Harvard Law School.

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Xenia Lapin Xenia is a postgraduate legal professional with broad international experience in banking and financial markets. She achieved a Mag. Iur. (combined degree LLB and LLM) specialized in Banking and Insurance Law at the University of Vienna and is now an MSc in Law and Finance candidate at the University of Oxford. Before coming to Oxford Xenia Lapin was working as a Legal Counsel at the department for Legislative and International Affairs at the Austrian Financial Market Authority. Furthermore, she has working experience in Russia, Czech, and Austria in major international Law firms with a focus on international corporate law, finance, competition and antitrust law.

Yin Harn Lee Yin is a Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Sheffield. Prior to joining the University of Sheffield, she completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2015 on the topic of copyright law and videogame modifications. She was also previously a Senior Research Associate within CREATe, the RCUK-funded centre for copyright and business models in the creative economy, on a project examining the relationship between copyright and freedom of expression. Dr Lee’s research interests lie mainly in intellectual property law, especially copyright. She also coaches teams for the Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot, and has previously acted as a judge for the national rounds of the International Humanitarian Law Moot and the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition.

Morris Lipson Morris is currently a consultant for foundations, providing advice on monitoring and evaluation. As a lawyer, he has advised foundations on universal jurisdiction litigation, and has brought cases to the UN Human Rights Committee on freedom of expression and association. Earlier, he was at the American Civil Liberties Union in the United States, where he worked on freedom of association and privacy cases, including at the United States Supreme Court. He has a JD from the Yale Law School and a PhD in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley.

Laurence Lustgarten Laurence is an Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. He was formerly Professor of Law at the University of Southampton, and Commissioner at the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). He has authored or co-authored numerous books and articles on national security, policing, defamation, and public law.

Gregory Mappledoram Gregory is a seasoned General Counsel and Executive with global operating experience, currently advising a facilities management company but with primary expertise in the technology arena, particularly communications and fintech.

Victoria McEvedy Victoria is an experienced litigator and a media and IP specialist, dealing with all issues relevant to copyright, trademarks and domain names and other IP and also data and software. Victoria also focuses on all aspects of media law, including libel and privacy and data protection and the

self and co-regulatory codes. She advises clients on proposed publications and broadcasts, and also provides pre-publication advice to media clients, including various national newspapers. She has a niche practice in London and is a specialist in the liability of internet intermediaries and digital content online more generally. She was recognized as a Leading Individual in Digital Media by Chambers 2013. Victoria is dual qualified and has practised in New York as well as London and Hong Kong.

Joshua McGeeghan Joshua is currently reading for the BCL at Worcester College Oxford. Previously he worked as a solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills in Australia as well as working as a Judge’s associate in the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia. His mooting experience includes both participating in, and coaching for, the Jessup International Law Moot, various trial advocacy competitions and constitutional law competitions.

Lakshmi Menon Lakshmi is reading for the BCL at Oxford on a Commonwealth Scholarship, having graduated in law from The National University of Advanced Legal Studies, India. She was an avid mooter / debater (read parliamentary debates) and MUNner throughout law school and was fortunate to participate in over 12 moots, including the Philip J. Jessup International Moot Court Competition and the South-Asian rounds of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot in Beijing, China. She was also part of the winning team at the inaugural edition of the RMNLU International Media Law Moot held in 2014 and was adjudged the Best Oralist at the national-level competition.

Victoria Miyandazi Victoria is currently pursuing a DPhil in law at the University of Oxford. Her DPhil research focuses on the conceptualisation, interpretation and application of competing and interrelated conceptions of equality with a specific emphasis on Kenya’s 2010 Constitution. She recently completed an MPhil in law and Bachelor of Civil Law, still at the University of Oxford. Victoria also holds an LL.B. degree from Kenyatta University where she graduated top of her class with first class honours. She is a Rhodes Scholar and currently an Editor of the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog.

Kay Murray Kay is the Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Institute of International Education. She has practiced law in New York City for more than 25 years. For six years, Kay was a commercial litigator. Since 1994, she has served as in-house counsel at a variety of not-for-profit and for-profit organizations, including the Authors Guild, an association of professional writers, Tribune, a major media company, and the Open Society Foundations, a network of international grant-making and operating foundations. She is the co-author of “The Writers Legal Guide” (4th ed., 2012). Kay received her J.D. from Northwestern University Law School, and her B.A. in English Literature from Xavier University.

Ola Nagy Ola is an Associate at Zulficar & Partners International Arbitration Group. Ms. Nagy obtained her LLB from Ain Shams University Faculty of Law in 2012. She obtained her LLM in International Law in 2015 from Ain Shams University. Among

other extracurricular activities with students that involved both researching and teaching, Ms. Nagy was part of the Ain Shams research team for Price Media Moot Court Competition for three years. She has also been an Organizer in the Middle East Regional Rounds for three years. In 2016, she was a junior Judge and an Organizer at the International Rounds of the Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition.

Heather Newton Heather is a lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, specialising in intellectual property law and litigation. She has a First Class law degree from University of Oxford and an IP Diploma from Bristol University.

Harjinder S Obhi Harjinder is Senior Director, Litigation at Google where he has been employed since 2006. He has worked on many Google litigation cases worldwide in which principles of freedom of expression including the right to receive and impart information are central, such as: Costeja v Google (C-131/12) in which the CJEU introduced the so called “right to be forgotten”. Over 20y legal experience: Senior Legal Counsel EMEA & APAC at Network General (now NetScout); Bristows law firm; Solicitor (qualified 1997); trained at Lovell White Durrant (now Hogan Lovells) law firm. Formerly: experimental physicist, PhD in superconductivity from Cambridge University.

Margaret O’Brien Margaret is a 3rd Year Doctoral Candidate at SOAS, University of London, researching the possibility of hybrid legal form emerging in the Chakma

customary legal system in Bangladesh and India. Prior to joining SOAS she was a Departmental Director in UK Local Government, most recently being Head of Operations at Shelter, the housing charity, and the largest single provider of legal aid funded housing services in the UK.

Maha Omar Maha is currently working as a demonstrator in the faculty of law in the British University in Egypt. She graduated from the French department of the faculty of law, Ain shams University in 2015. She holds a master degree in Public and International Law from Jean Moulin-Lyon III University. She has also been a member of the team representing Ain Shams University in Price media law moot court competition in 2015. During college, Ms Maha has participated in extra curriculum activities such as simulation models of the European court of Human Rights as well as the United Nations as a member and a president of the academic committee.

Kate O’Regan Kate is the inaugural Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, which will open in a new building at Mansfield College in September 2017. She served as one of the first judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 – 2009 and as an ad hoc judge of the Supreme Court of Namibia from 2010 - 2016. From 2008 – 2012, Kate served as the inaugural chairperson of the United Nations Internal Justice Council, a body established to ensure independence, professionalism and accountability in the internal system of justice in the UN.

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She is also President of the International Monetary Fund Administrative Tribunal (since 2011), a member of the World Bank Sanctions Board (since 2012) and a member of the IAAF Ethics Board (since 2016). She is an honorary bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy and the recipient of six honorary degrees. She has also served on the boards of many NGOs working in the fields of democracy, the rule of law, human rights and equality.

Egemen OzhanEgemen is Director of Egemen Ozhan Legal Consultancy Ltd, a qualified media and e-discovery lawyer based in London. Miss Ozhan received her LL.B from the University of Ankara and was admitted to Istanbul Bar Association. She worked as a research assistant in Turkey during which time she visited the University of Oxford, Institute of European and Comparative Law as an Academic Scholar and published numerous articles on International Comparative Law. Before establishing her own law firm in London, she worked for Dogan TV Holding AS, a leading media company based in Istanbul having the ownerships of CNN Turk and Kanal D TV channels. During that time, she published an academic study titled “The Contracts in Turkish Law With Regard To Publishing of Literary And Artistic Works on Radio and Television”. Currently she is working as a media and e-discovery lawyer, focusing on internet law, digital forensics, criminal investigations, data protection and privacy law.

Raphael Pangalangan Raphael graduated from the University of the Philippines with degrees in Philosophy (BA cum laude, 2012) and Law (Juris Doctor 2016). In 2016 he was awarded the Dean Froilan M. Bacungan Prize for Best Paper in Freedom of Expression for his essay on online speech and defamation. He won honors from the Institute for Global Engagement for his essay on religion and gender rights, and from the Philippine Association of Law Schools for his essay on reforming Philippine legal education. As a law senior, Raphael was the Captain of the Philippine team to the Universiteit Leiden-International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition. He was also oralist in the 2015 Oxford-Price Moot Court on Freedom of Expression, where he and his team won the championship. During his undergraduate years at the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Raphael was awarded a varsity scholarship by the University of the Philippines Judo team, for which he was team captain in 2012. That same year, he was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi and the Pi Gamma Mu international honor societies. Currently, Raphael sits as an Assistant Editor for Eyes on the ICC, a scholarly journal that focuses on the work of the International Criminal Court to promote positive relations between the international criminal law community and the US.

Gillian Phillips Gillian is the Director of Editorial Legal Services for Guardian News & Media Limited (publishers of the Guardian and Observer newspapers and theguardian.com). She was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor in 1984 with the law firm Coward (now Clifford) Chance.

She joined the BBC as an in-house lawyer in 1987, later working for News Group Newspapers and Times Newspapers, where she advised on pre- and post-publication legal issues, including around defamation, open justice, contempt of court, privacy and national security. She moved to Guardian News & Media in May 2009 and has advised on phone-hacking, Wikileaks, the Leveson Inquiry, the NSA leaks from Edward Snowden and more recently the HSBC files and the Panama Papers. She also sits as a part-time Employment Tribunal Judge and co-authors the University of Law Employment Law handbook. She is a non-resident fellow of the Centre for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University School of Public Policy and holds an honorary law doctorate from London South Bank University.

David Price David has been a solicitor and advocate for over 20 years and has been the lead advocate in a number of key cases that have shaped the law of defamation and privacy. David consistently tops the rankings of media lawyers in both the Chambers and Legal 500 guides. Peers recognise his frequent involvement in ground-breaking matters, describing this as doing his best to reform defamation law through his own cases. Having made his name as a claimant lawyer, a Times survey once revealed that over 50% of media lawyers would choose him first if they were ever libelled. David’s passion is defending freedom of expression for a wide variety of clients. An important focus for him has been to provide the means for individuals without substantial resources to defend themselves when they are on the receiving end of defamation or privacy claims.

Lynn Pype Lynn obtained a Master in Law in June 2008 from the University of Ghent Belgium. In June 2009, she also obtained a complementary Masters degree in Economic Law from the ULB in Brussels. In October 2009, she undertook the LLM program at Queen Mary University in London, with a focus on Intellectual Property and Media Law. That same year, she participated in the Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court International Rounds with the Queen Mary team.

Md Monzur Rabbi Md Monzur is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and upon receiving a Fulbright Scholarship from the Government of USA, he is currently pursuing an LL.M. in International Arbitration at the University of Miami School of Law, Florida, USA. Monzur is also qualified as a Barrister in England and Wales (Unregistered in UK) and was called by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn in Michaelmas, 2014. He has more than 05 (five) years of experience as a legal practitioner and he works as a Partner of “Rahman & Rabbi Legal”, a law chambers based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His main areas of practice include international arbitration, corporate, commercial, telecommunication, and international trade. Monzur did his pupillage in Bangladesh under the supervision of Mr. Ajmalul Hossain QC, the first Queen’s Counsel in England of Bangladeshi origin and also a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Monzur has so far worked in a number of national and international arbitrations and he has the experience of appearing before international commercial arbitral tribunals as a junior to

Mr. Hossain QC. Monzur was a participant of the 4th Price Media Law Moot Court Competition 2011 held at University of Oxford, UK.

Jacob Rowbottom Jacob is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Oxford and Fellow of University College, Oxford. He writes widely on issues relating to freedom of speech, media law and political participation. He is the author of Democracy Distorted (2010).

Sanya Samtani Sanya is an MPhil candidate at Magdalen College, funded by the Rhodes Trust. She is on the committee for Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP) 2016-2017. She is writing her thesis on the constitution-making process of India, particularly focusing on the concept of fraternity. Her areas of interest are public international law, constitutional law, equality law, and human rights law. Prior to the MPhil, she completed the BCL at Oxford and her B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) degree from NALSAR University of Law, India.

Laura Scaife Laura is a data privacy, cyber and social media solicitor. She advises an enviable range of FTSE 100 clients who consistently praise her pragmatic advice on some of the UK’s most significant and innovative data projects. In addition to her role as Managing Director of Datultacy, she is a PhD candidate. She is also the author of The Handbook of Social Media and the Law described as “the seminal text in the area”, “an “expertly written book” and concludes that “this text is going to be a hugely

influential ‘must –have’. Regularly sought out to speak at industry seminars, she has also appeared on the BBC Radio 4 and Channel 4. Her most recent book #Terror: Social Networks as the New Frontier of Terrorism, was published in January 2017. She has been featured in The Lawyer Magazine as a “star legal writer” and was named as “the one to watch” in the Cambridge Judge Business School and LexisNexis - Achievements of Women in Law 2015.

Taras Shevchenko Taras is Director and founder of Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law (former – Media Law Institute) since 2005. It is a think tank that focuses on independent media development, anti-corruption actions, and civic initiatives support. Organization’s mission is to encourage development of the society of active and responsible citizens. Mr. Shevchenko is Board Co-chairman for Reanimation Package of Reforms (RPR) – the largest coalition of leading non-governmental organizations and experts from all over Ukraine. The RPR also functions as a coordination center for 73 non-governmental organizations and 22 expert groups which develop, promote, and control implementation of the reforms. As leading RPR expert in media law he has participated in drafting media legislation in Ukraine. In particular, co-drafted existing Law on Access to Public Information; Law on Public Service Broadcasting; Law on National Council on TV and Radio; Defamation Law amendments; Law on Parliamentary Elections (as to Media & Elections); Law on ban of tobacco advertising; Law on smoking in public places ban, Law on Public Financing of Political Parties.

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Since November 2015 Taras Shevchenko is Supervisory Board Member of Public Service Broadcasting Company of Ukraine. Member of the Kyiv Bar Association and International Media Lawyers Association. He is an author of over 100 articles and publication on reforms, democracy, freedom of speech, election, legal regulation of media, protection of journalist’ rights, etc.

Chen Siyuan Chen is an Assistant Professor of Law with Singapore Management University specialising in evidence and procedural law. He has published in journals such as the International Journal of Evidence & Proof and Civil Justice Quarterly. Recent book publications include The Law of Evidence in Singapore (Sweet & Maxwell: 2016), Civil Procedure in Singapore (Wolters Kluwer: 2016), and Singapore Family Law Procedure (LexisNexis: 2017). At NUS, Siyuan was part of the 2007 Jessup team that reached the semifinal of the international rounds. He started the moot programme in SMU in 2010 and since then SMU has been to almost 40 international championship finals, including the Jessup (2013 and 2014), Vis (2015 and 2016), Vis East (2015 and 2016), Price (2010, 2015, and 2016), and International Criminal Court (2015 and 2016) competitions.

Michael Skrein Michael is a senior partner at international law firm Reed Smith LLP. He is a litigator and has for many years specialised in a variety of aspects of media law. His cases often have a cross-border, multi-jurisdictional flavour.

Michael holds Master’s degrees from the Universities of Oxford and of Southern California.

Martin Smith Martin is an award-winning Journalist of 29 years experience as agency reporter, Chief Reporter, Sports Editor, Features Editor of the Sheffield Star. Also Lifestyle magazine editor and covered sport for all major national newspapers. Now freelance journalist and Senior Journalism Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University on undergraduate and post-graduate teaching programmes with specialisms in Sport, features, ethics and law. Also taught journalism at Brunel University, Huddersfield University, Nottingham Trent and University of Sheffield.

Paulina Smykouskaya Paulina is a Price Media Law Moot Court alumna currently working for PwC Legal in the Intellectual Property and Technology practice in Moscow. Out of the ten years of her legal practice, Paulina has spent the last five advising in IT sector. Prior to joining PwC Legal, she worked in the UK, the USA, South Africa and Belarus, specialising in data protection, corporate governance, compliance risk management and startup finance. Paulina completed with distinction LLM Commercial and Corporate Law at Queen Mary University of London. She holds Regulatory Compliance certificate from the University of Cape Town and International Law diploma from the Belarusian State University. In her research work, Paulina explores how technology can be used to improve urban environment, and advocates for privacy by design, big data ethics and digital literacy.

Iain Stansfield Iain has been practising media and intellectual property law for over 20 years. He is a partner in the international media law firm, Olswang, and is the head of its Commercial Group. Iain provides strategic advice to clients involved in the development, protection and exploitation of intellectual property. This includes brands, content and technology. His focus is on transactional and advisory work, and his clients are drawn in large part from the advertising and marketing, publishing and retail sectors. Primarily a commercial lawyer, his background as an IP practitioner means that he brings to his transactional work a sharp awareness of how best to protect and maximise intangible assets. Iain wrote the Periodical Publishers’ Association’s Guide to Intellectual Property law, “Writers’ Rights and Righting Wrongs”, and is also the author of the Design Council’s on-line knowledge resource on the same subject.

Randall L Stephenson Randall is nearing completion of his DPhil in law at the University of Oxford. Before attending Oxford, he practiced litigation at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto, Canada, specialising in the defence of complex class actions, trials, and commercial arbitration. Randall’s interest in interdisciplinary and comparative law research was inspired by prominent First Amendment scholars and practitioners during his LLM studies at Columbia Law School. His doctoral thesis focused on public libel doctrine and the checking function of the press, particularly the links between constitutional structure, democratic theory (eg freedom of expression justifications), and public accountability scholarship.

His postdoctoral research interests include analysing the rise and significance of WikiLeaks and related whistleblowing, establishing appropriate limits to secret tribunals in ‘authorising’ mass surveillance of digital communications, and examining the legal and accountability implications of ‘fake news’.

Dan Tench Dan is a litigator with particular expertise in judicial review, media law, data protection and sports law, undertaking many leading cases in these areas. He has advised bringing and defending major judicial reviews and other administrative law challenges. Many of his public law matters have involved issues of significant political controversy and he has exceptional experience in aligning an approach to litigation with broader media and political concerns. He has prepared senior individuals for appearances before and attended with them at Parliamentary Select Committees. Dan has also substantial experience in advising claimants and defendants in defamation, privacy and other media litigation matters including general reputation management matters, securing injunctions and judgments in leading edge internet cases and has been involved in responding to many significant data security breach situations. He acted for the claimants in the leading data protection case of Vidal-Hall & Ors v Google. Dan has regularly written for and appeared on the national media including The Guardian, The Times, BBC and Channel 4 News. Dan co-founded both the Supreme Court Blog and the Injunctions Blog. He is recognised as a leading practitioner in both the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 legal directories in both the media law and public law sections.

Dirk Voorhoof Dirk is Emeritus Professor at Ghent University, Belgium. He is a member of the Executive Board of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) in Leipzig/Germany, the Human Rights Centre at the Law Faculty of Ghent University and the Global FOE&I @Columbia experts network, Columbia University, New York. Since 2005 he is lecturing Media Law at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH, Denmark) and from 1995 to 2005 he was a member of the Federal Commission for Access to Administrative Documents in Belgium. Among his recent publications: “Freedom of Expression, Media and Journalism under the European Human Rights System: Characteristics, Developments, and Challenges”, in P. Molnár (ed.), Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe, Central European University Press, Budapest - New York, 2015, 59-104 and “Freedom of Journalistic Newsgathering, Access to Information and Protection of Whistle-blowers under Article 10 ECHR and the standards of the Council of Europe”, in Council of Europe, Journalism at Risk. Threats, challenges and perspectives, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2015 .

Chris Watson Chris is one of the world’s leading communications law experts and is our global head of Technology, Media and Communications. He is a past chairman of the International Bar Association (IBA) Communications Law Committee and is now on the Governing Council of the IBA. His clients include BT, Orange, Telefonica, Amazon, Ebay, the World Bank, Apollo, H.P Inc., Cinven and numerous governance and regulatory authorities worldwide.

He has been ranked as one of the top 6 communications lawyers in the world for over 10 years, is dual qualified in the UK and France and speaks several other European languages. He advises primarily on matters of competition and regulation, including policy and implementation, and is a regular commentator on data protection and privacy law in national and international print and television media.

Alexander Willingham Alexander is a paralegal at Thackray Williams LLP. He holds an undergraduate LLB degree and an LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law from Queen Mary, University of London, which focused heavily on Media and Privacy Law. He was a member of the Queen Mary Semi-Finalist team at the Oxford University Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition 2014, and sat on the Organising Committee in 2015 and 2016. Alex has a strong interest in Media Law and Privacy related concerns. Whilst working as a paralegal at Thackray Williams Alex is seeking a training contract to qualify as a solicitor.

Yifan Zhou Yifan is currently reading for the MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford. She completed her LL.B. at Tsinghua University in Bejing, China and LL.M. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. During her studies at Tsinghua and Penn Law, she focused on international law and participated in several international moot competitions as oralist or coach.

“First of all, this moot was the opportunity for me to discuss the issues I love - the freedom of media, the Internet and the state control over borderline speech. It is also a wonderful place to meet colleagues from abroad, who share this common interest. And lastly - wonderful

Oxford, which only adds to the atmosphere of the competition, friendship and cooperation”.

Maksym Dvorovyi, Coach of the team from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

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We would like to extend a warm thank you to all of the judges who have given their time to judge the moot court oral rounds. Also, to those scoring the written arguments, who invested their time and effort to evaluate and comment on each of the memorials for the International Rounds: Chintan Chandrachud, Petar Radosavljev and Surendra Kumar.

Thank you also to all of our Organising Committee volunteers for their invaluable help during the competition.

This competition would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors.

We have many willing partners around the world, particularly lending support to the regional competitions. In addition to many of our long-standing regional round sponsors we are delighted to welcome the leadership grants from Google, Facebook and Alan Weiler, and the generous support of the Scone Foundation, Gibson Dunn, the Hearst Corporation, Ted and Betsy Rogers, Martin J. Gross, Jon and Liz Blake and Gill Phillips.

We are very thankful to our Regional Rounds partner institutions –Internews Afghanistan, the National Law University, Delhi, Renmin University School of Law,

the University of Zagreb, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Cairo University, Ain Shams University, the University of Lagos, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law in Ukraine, the Kyiv-Mohyla Moot Court Society – and to all of our colleagues whose invaluable work makes the Regional Rounds possible: Sarvjeet Singh, Chinmayi Arun, Soumya AK, Fay XU, Marko Juric, Alina Pravdychenko, Jocelyn Hackett, Ahmed Khalifa and Andrea Ajibade.

“The Price Moot does an extraordinary job of training the next generation of freedom of expression defenders. It serves as a unique training opportunity for all involved from students, to academics who coach and lawyers who see as judges. The moot is positioned to shape academic curriculums and

transform the teaching of human rights by engaging students in cutting edge and contemporary issues around the internet, social media and the law. The Price Moot is building a wonderful global network of friendship and

professionals that will face some of the greatest challenges of our generation”.András Sajó – European Court of Human Rights

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“I became a member of the moot court movement whilst a student. At that time it was a good chance

to obtain not only theoretical knowledge, but also practical skills, to meet lawyers from other

countries and to discuss professional issues with them. Now I am a member of the team of organizers and I really enjoy the atmosphere of

the Price Moot Competition, the large number of interesting people and highly-qualified lawyers in

the sphere of media law who I met in Oxford.” Alina Pravdychenko, North East Europe Competition Coordinator