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competition for students. It's a sort of a mock trial so they have a fictitious

case and it's their job to plead the case from the prosecution side and from the

defense side and so they meet in a competition. And the interesting thing

about this what we're doing here in Nuremberg is that it's an international

court so we have teams from all five continents, more than 25 teams and in the

end there'll be a big final and we'll have a winner.

This is a real challenge handing over the torch of the common fight for

accountability and equality before the law that the idea of international law

will remain and will be vivid in particular in the spirit of this

specific setting here in the courtroom 600 in Nuremberg.

When you're actually given a question that involves real crimes that have

been coded in the Rome Statute and you have to apply them before people who

actually know these cases it's just amazing it opens your eyes to so many

things that you couldn't have known if you just read international criminal law

in theory this this shows you the practice yes and it's an amazing

experience.

Well the interesting thing for for me being an organizer and being at the

same time also a judge in this mood court is that it's very much a mutual

experience of learning. At the end of the day it does not count who is the winner

because the winner are all teams and we the judges we have also learned a lot

during these days. Presenting in courtroom 600 in itself is part of making history

I mean this was where international criminal law began and in commemorating

that it's been 70 years and we're still living in that memory that offenders of

crimes that have shocked the conscience of humanity have to be punished being

part of such an event is amazing that is the highlight of my my experience here.

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