Team Sapientia at the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition 2024/2025

Law students of Sapientia University have had the chance to compete for the first time in the European Rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition organized in Paris. Having participated in the previous regional rounds (South-East-European, then Central-East- European Rounds) since 2018, it was the first time Team Sapientia has had the chance to compete in the oral rounds of the unified European Rounds after merging all European Rounds into a single one in Paris, in 2023.

The Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition is a Grand Slam international student mooting contest in the field of media law, freedom of expression and new technologies, comprising a total of six regional rounds and a grand finale – the international round in Oxford. The competition starts with a written phase, where students need to prepare two sets of memos (both as applicants, as well as respondents) for the competition case of the season. The oral phase comprises pleading in front of an international panel of judges who may freely ask questions both during, as well as after the presentation of arguments.

The European Round of the 2024/2025 competition season took place in Paris, organized in cooperation by Oxford University – Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and Université Paris Cité as host. The team of Sapientia university comprised 5 undergraduate law students: Hunor Veres-Kupán, Dániel-Attila Farcádi, Janka Márton, Ágnes-Beáta Magyari, Róbert Bodor, coached by Dr. Zsolt Kokoly. A total of 13 teams competed in the European Rounds: 3 teams from the UK, 2 teams from Romania (Sapientia University from Cluj and Bucharest University), as well as a team from Hungary, Ireland, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Greece, Austria, Slovenia and the Ukraine.

The team of Sapientia has played two matches as respondents (in the fictive case of „Yara & AzulFish v. Republic of Boto) and one match as applicant against the teams of the University of Tilburg, the University of Ljubljana and the University of Bucharest, placing as 11 th in the overall ranking by scoring points in each game and even winning one of the matches played.