Okay, so good day everyone. Nice to see you all here. And let me introduce our honorable

speaker. It is Dr. Emma Brandon here. She is a project officer in International Noon

Principles Academy and also she's distinguished American lawyer and her specialization

are international criminal law and international human rights law. And also in International

Newberg Academy she is responsible for providing and organizing the moot court which is more

which our audience are very interested in. So we are very happy to see you today, Emma.

And in the beginning also I would like to say some words about organization of our webinar.

While Dr. Brandon will provide her presentation, you can write in the chat greetings, maybe

questions, etc. But preliminary while our participants were registrating, they left

more than 10 questions. So in the end of the presentation of Dr. Brandon, I will ask this

question and as well you are very welcome to ask yourself if you want. Just raise your hand and

let us do it after Emma will present her material. So Dr. Brandon, the floor is yours.

Thank you so much that you are with us today. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for organizing

this and for the very kind invitation. I'm really happy to be here. I always love talking to students

about the moot court and I'm really happy that you guys are here and you're so passionate about

the moot court and about international criminal law. You gave a very good introduction of me.

I was going to say more but you said a lot. I guess just my experience with moot courts

more specifically, when I was a law student myself I actually participated in the ICC's moot court.

But then I had the chance during my PhD to coach the University of Oslo's team here in the Nuremberg

moot court. That was when I really sort of fell in love with the idea of the Nuremberg moot court

and how it runs. So yes, what I want to do today is first give you an introduction to

the International Nuremberg Principles Academy as it is. I will share my screen here as I have a

little PowerPoint presentation. There we go. Now you should see it. Perfect. Yeah, so I will give

some background on the academy and then of course go right into sort of the Nuremberg moot court and

also some topics that I know you were specifically interested in before I answer your questions.

So really, first of all, welcome virtually as you see here to the International Nuremberg Principles

Academy here in our historic building in the historic Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany

where the Nazi war criminals were tried after World War II in the first ever international criminal

trial. That really is one of the key things about the academy that we are based in this historic

building. So really our mandate really relates to this fact that we are in this historic building.

For the law nerds out there as lawyers, we are what's known as a civil law foundation under

German law. We are founded by the German Foreign Office, the city of Nuremberg, and the Free State

of Bavaria. Our mission generally is to advance international criminal justice and human rights.

We focus specifically on sustainable peace through justice and even more specifically on those seven

Nuremberg principles that were sort of after the Nuremberg trials of the Nazi war criminals, the

International Law Commission wrote up the principles that were established in the jurisprudence of the

Nuremberg trials. So it's basic principles that are sort of the grounding of international criminal

law today. There are things like the right to a fair trial, the fact that even if you are the

president of a country you still can be tried for international crimes, things like that, really basic

parts of international criminal law. And then also we also more generally promote the rule of

we do that through three sort of dimensions. One of these involves the Nuremberg moot court.

The first is our research projects, which I will go into in more detail,

then we provide what we call is call a forum for dialogue through conferences and events,

and then capacity building, which is where the Nuremberg moot court lies, which is training

programs, other programs to ensure that practitioners and students really have the

expertise in international criminal law that's necessary to be able to practice in this field

and ensure justice for victims of Nuremberg crimes. Our approach generally is international

and interdisciplinary. As I'm sure you can see, we are from around the world on this team. I am

from the U.S., not from Germany, and we ensure that we include other disciplines in our work as

well when it's around, like political science. Just a little more on the forum for dialogue idea.