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a real adventure is just to begin

i just want to be a real woman and now i'm travelling by my own. So Today all my team mates left me behind to San Fran. I'll fly to st. Louis alone and stay there a night. I'm very tired now wil write more later.

Cambodia participated Jessup 2009

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DSC_1242 , originally uploaded by ennioarizzi .

My mission is 99% over :)

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IMG_1033.JPG , originally uploaded by Nearirath Sreng . Today i have a match, the Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court, with USA from Columbia University. It was quiet good :) this is what we got from judges. We didn't expect much from the match today since it was so tough to compete with Columbia University like them. But finally, we did it, and it's just like a miracle. The brief, the writing memo is too good enough to scare us before the match but we were just so lucky to have very lovely judges. They just keep asking questions, and looking us in eyes of ...what should i say...he think of us just a kid, and he is just smile at us all time while we proceed our speech. We know already that we couldn't win the awesome Columbia team but we are so proud enough to get a word excellent from judges. "It is very honor to die under the name of hero :) " this is what we say before the match. We will have a final match tomorrow but not my turn with Brazil the

First round, 245 Vs. ...[confidentail]

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First round, Cambodia Vs. Russia , originally uploaded by Nearirath Sreng . i was awake all night long, only 2 or 3 hours sleep before the first round so i think i did my best whatever result i just accept it. This morning, the weather is super cold, -2 or -4 C degree. We all are freezing when we got the Fairmont Hotel where the competition take place. Tomorrow Cambodia Vs. USA, Columbia university! hmm...

First day of Intern'l Jessup MooT CourT

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IMG_1015.JPG , originally uploaded by Nearirath Sreng .

Cambodian Jessup Team's article on PP post

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Cambodia to compete in international court arena Print E-mail Written by Eleanor Ainge Roy Thursday, 19 March 2009 Photo by: ELEANOR AINGE-ROY Cambodia’s court competition team trainers Zachary Lampell (left) and Shona Grandy (second from right) with team members Piseth Panha, Soy Kimsan, Sreng Nearirath, Khun Sonita and Vireak Thirith. This Sunday five law students from the Royal University of Law and Economics will compete in Washington at the prestigious Jessup International Moot Court Competition. In its 50th year, the Jessup competition is the world's largest of its kind with more than 500 law schools from 80 countries competing. The competition is a mock trial of two fictional countries before the United Nations' International Court of Justice. Each competing team must prepare written and oral arguments to present to the court, This is the first year Cambodia has sent a team. The five chosen participants have been preparing since last September. Their fund ra
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This year, the Jessup Competition will celebrate its 50th Anniversary and to mark this momentous occasion, the ILSA Spring Conference will focus on the contributions of the Competition to international law. The conference is titled 50 Years of the Jessup: Reflections on the Past, Visions of the Future. Distinguished speakers will discuss international law issues raised in past Jessup problems, tracing the history of these issues from the time the problem was crafted to the present, with a focus on how the law will develop in the future. Discussion topics will include terrorism, post-conflict obligations of states, indigenous peoples’ rights, and international environmental law. "50 Years of the Jessup: Reflections on the Past, Visions of the Future" Thursday, March 26 8:30am - 9:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00am - 10:30am The Responsibility to Protect This year's Jessup Problem focuses on the legal issues that arise when members of the international commu

our schedule of the competition

               TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SHEARMAN & STERLING INTERNATIONAL ROUNDS Sunday, March 22 10:00am - 2:00pm Team Registration and Orientation Fair (Ballroom Leve el, Fairmont)All teams must check-in and register during this period. If a team does notarrive and register by 2:00pm, the team will not be scheduled to compete. 2:00pm Team Orientation (Grand Ballroom, Fairmont)All teams must attend the Team Orientation. Special remarks will be deliveredby Shearman & Sterling partner Yas Banifatemi. 5:00pm Bailiff Orientation (Executive Forum, Fairmont) For exhibition and observation teams and all other bailiffs. 5:30pm Exhibition Team Meeting (Executive Forum, Fairmont) 6:00pm Distribution of Preliminary Round Schedule and Opponent Memorials (Roosevelt, Fairmont) This is when teams will receive their schedule of matches and the memorials of the opponents for the Preliminary Rounds. 8:00pm Judge Orientation (Ballroom I, Fairmont) Monday, March 23 8:30am-9:30am Breakfast for

after having lunch with Cambodia Ambassidor in Washington D.C.

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IMG_0928 , originally uploaded by Nearirath Sreng . The weather is damn cold with a very cold wind so everyone is just freezing. It's good that finally Mr. Embassidor understand us. Q: What are you doing here? A: we're representing Cambodia to join the world largest competition of Phillip C. Jessup moot court. Q:Who does send you here? A: No one exactly, but we are making history to lead our own team to be here. In order to have USAID to lead or make project something like this they have to write a proposal which would take years, and it would not be able to happy too since they never thought that we have ability to join such a big competition like this because lack material of internation laws, professors and stuffs like that. So, he finally got what we are trying to explain him. Q: ....more questions shall be posted next time :D

Public Hearing on 26th March 2009

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DSC03217 , originally uploaded by Nearirath Sreng . Before the hearing we were so nervous but things had turn to be okay after we did a pretty good job, but we still need more time to read and do more research on new questions from judge :s so thousand more things has to do.

a very close road to international Jessup Competition in Washington D.C.

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I'm sorry being quiet a big while since i'm so struggling with preparation and the public performance today. Big thanks to all donors who have helped, government of Cambodia, the RULE, Our coaches (Zach and Shona), Local Law Firms ( Scaiirony law firm and a law firm from Australia). Big thanks to Margareth, the school representative. Good News is that we got the hotel scholarship and the free dinner of 50th of anni. of jessup competition. We believe in Marciles that we have been started from -1000 to 100 level. Without people who has donor, help with physically and spiritually we couldn't reach to stand in the international competition of jessup moot court.  
Seminar and Performance Of Cambodian Jessup Team To   ‘Participating in the 2009 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition In Washington D.C. , USA ’ On March 16, 2009     The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is the world’s largest moot court competition is an advocacy competition for law students from around the world. Students from about 88 countries are expected to compete for this event. More about this competition, please visit http://www.ilsa.org/jessup/index.php , Cambodian Jessup Team, www.jessupcambodiateam.blogspot.com We are the Cambodian Jessup Team of Royal University Law and Economics.  The five of us -Kimsan Soy,Thirith Vireak, Sonita Khun, Nearirath Sreng, Panha Piseth- were  selected to represent the university Royal University of Law and Economics (Rule) through a competition judged by people with the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the international court set up to prosecute Khmer Rouge l