Announcing the 2014 Uganda Constitutional Law Moot

Uganda is home to a growing number of law schools and law students.  Presently these students have limited opportunities to compete in moot court competitions.  The Uganda Intra-University Constitutional Law Moot would add a much-needed annual moot in a key legal area of appellate practice in the Ugandan context.

National mooting opportunities are limited in Uganda.  The only annual moot with wide participation among Ugandan law schools is the International Humanitarian Law Moot conducted by the ICRC.  Other organizations such as ALIPU and UCLF have staged notional moots from time to time, but these moots are not broadly attended regularly occurring events.  Also, while there are a relatively large number of opportunities to compete in international moot competitions, these moots are often too expensive and time consuming for most Ugandan law schools to take part in.

In addition, none of the current inter-university mooting opportunities in Uganda focus on the Constitution.  This is the case despite the fact that constitutional law is arguably the most important field of law in the context of appellate legal work in Uganda.

In the hope of meeting the needs listed above we have decided to launch Uganda's National Constitutional Law Moot!

All of Uganda's law schools are welcome to enter a single team of two student competitors in the competition.  The full rules for the competition will be provided on a subsequent post on this blog.

We are releasing the 2014 moot problems so that the Universities with law schools and law faculties can stage their own internal competitions in order to identify a team to represent their University. Universities are also free to come up with some alternative means for naming their team, but it is our hope that most Universities will stage their own internal moots in the spirit of learning and competition.

We hope to stage the moot in February of 2014.  The exact date and the location of the internal moot will be posted soon.

The present moot organising committee for the moot includes representatives from Makerere's School of Law, Uganda Christian University's Faculty of Law and CEHURD.   We are looking forward to bringing in more partners to the process of planning, staging and conducting the moot.

We hope you will be interested in seeing the Uganda Constitutional Law Moot become a successful annual event on Uganda's legal education landscape.