The team of the Faculty of Law at Yarmouk University has qualified for the tenth Arab Moot Court Competition in the sisterly State of Kuwait and will represent the Kingdom in this Arab student competition next March. The team includes the students: Hiraa Shaaban, Islam Al-Moumani, Sarah Al-Asmar, and Nola Al-Hallaj, and the supervisors: Dr. Wassef Al-Zboun, Dr. Alaa Darawsheh, and Dr. Diala Al-Ta’ani. The team qualified after ranking first in the national moot court qualifiers organized by the Kuwait International College of Law at the level of Jordanian universities.

Interestingly, the national competition between Jordanian universities focused on presenting a case that stimulate the current Palestinian reality before the International Criminal Court by showcasing the daily attacks of Israeli occupation forces on defenseless Palestinian people in Gaza Strip and other safe areas. Thus, Yarmouk’s team was able to present a plea that required changing the way the Palestinian legal right is presented before the international judiciary in form of the presence of a party that proves, with evidence, laws, international conventions and agreements, international criminal charges against the accused state before the International Criminal Court.