The Moot Court Team of the School of Law, BRAC University were Runners-up in the National Qualifying Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2018 held at the Department of Law, Independent University Bangladesh (IUB) between 8th and 10th February 2018. The team comprised of Ms. Hafsah Abdullah, Ms. Maimuna Syed Ahmed, Mr. Adnaan Uddin Ahmed, and Ms. Tasneen Ahsan, and they were coached by Mr. Farhaan Uddin Ahmed, Lecturer at the School of Law.
The national qualifying round was organized by the International Law Students Association (ILSA) in collaboration with the Bangladesh Chapter of Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL), with participating teams from nineteen universities. Consequently, the team will now be representing Bangladesh in the International Rounds of the competition which will be held in Washington D.C. between 1st and 7th April 2018.Moreover, this year, the team's travel to Washington D.C. will be partially sponsored by the United States' Department of Justice.The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is the largest, most prestigious and one of the oldest moot court competition in the world with participation from more than 700 universities from around 100 countries in the various regional and national rounds.