Strathmore University, Kenya's law students just won this year's Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Competition; last year they won the John H Jackson World Moot on International Trade Law. These guys are deliberately using their students to push their image as a fantastic...
University. I will never forget how painful it felt to miss out on representing my University (and country, as my university was the only team from Nigeria that qualified despite entries from other universities) at the oral rounds of the Nuremberg Moot on International Criminal..
Law. We couldn't travel to Nuremberg, Germany because of Visa issues from the German Embassy and funding, yet our university's efforts in helping us secure visa interviews was simply a letter.

I remember @AGodanointing and @debanjo_lekan also missing out on representing UI at...
the African Human Rights Competition in Botswana simply due to FUNDS. This has to change.

While I acknowledge that the UI management sponsored two law students to India this January for a moot, yet they should have been 3, one stayed behind due to FUNDS, a sad experience
I am of the opinion that it's the faculty of law that should rise up to the task of seeking funding for its students to attend these renowned Moot competitions in a bid to bring glory to the faculty.

This it can do by bringing its vast network of alumni to contribute to a...
Trust fund (ahhh @jidesanwoolu must be proud of me😁😌) for such purposes. A UNIBEN student said UNIBEN has a trust fund for Jessup Moot.

We can do it. These moots help students develop interests in various areas of law, have thrilling and educating experiences by....
Participating which make their university experience fun and intriguing. Please na, enough of staying up late at night, doing tdbs to research, draft, edit memorials only to qualify for oral rounds and you are unable to go because of funds or because the university didn't help
You secure Visas. Ó wrong na
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