RULE Students Win International Client Counseling Competition

(1).  On January 29, 2010, two RULE students, Tan Tepi Kanika and Theng Tith Maria won first place in the USAID EWMI sponsored International Client Counseling Competition. The competition, conducted in English, requires law students to give spontaneous legal advice to clients played by actors. This year’s topic was white collar crime. This marks the third straight year that RULE students have won the competition and gone on to represent Cambodia at the international rounds. This is a second win for the two students who last year advanced to the semi-final rounds in Las Vegas, beating competitors from many English speaking countries. RULE students Phy Chanpisey and Sin Sophea won second place. This is the first time in the three year competition that one school has won both first and second place.

(2).  In this year, RULE will also send students to participate in the three other international Competitions, all of which require extensive reading and writing of memorials to qualify for entry. The first competition, the International Commercial Arbitration Moot, will take place in Hong Kong from March 15 to March 27, 2010. The second competition, the 51 year old Jessup International Moot Court Competition will take place in Washington DC from March 21 to March 28, 2010. This marks the second time, RULE has sent a team. RULE has stepped forward as the only Cambodian team in history to participate in Jessup considered by many to be the most prestigious competition. RULE will send a third team to the International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria.

(3). RULE’s decision to field the teams is to provide the nation with attorneys who can effectively represent the nation at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and in the commercial arbitration proceedings, which are fast becoming the venue of choice for companies, including those doing business in Cambodia, to resolve their disputes.

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