Day of Crisis Competition

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The Day of Crisis is an international law and diplomacy competition launched in 2021 by the Hague Academy of International Law. Over the course of 24 hours in The Hague, The Netherlands, several teams of students, representing governments, international organizations, businesses or non-governmental organizations, face a series of major international crises. Participants are required to deal with a variety of legal issues by providing an opinion, advising a client, drafting documents, negotiating or elaborating diplomatic strategies. This competition challenges students’ knowledge of public international law and a variety of skills, such as collaborating in a team, drafting, negotiating and working under pressure.

For more information visit: Hague Academy - Day of Crisis

Shefali Maini, Edinburgh Law School LLM candidate 

Agata Daszko, Edinburgh Law School Mooting Coordinator

The team comprises of 4-5 participants. To apply, please contact Agata Daszko.

The competition takes place in May at the Hague Academy of International Law, the Netherlands. 

Relevant areas of law: general international law and diplomacy

No essential course in principle. So far, the first team to participate has primarily been made up of students from the LLM in International Law. The competition, however, is open to all students. 

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MA, LLM, PhD

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Email: sosmola@ed.ac.uk

Szymon Osmola is a Lecturer in Commercial Law at Edinburgh Law School. Before joining the University of Edinburgh, Szymon was a Fellow in Law at LSE Law School and a Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. He holds a PhD and LLM in law from the European University Institute in Florence, and a Master’s degree in Law (with distinction) from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. 

Szymon’s research interests include contract and consumer law, commercial law more broadly, EU law, and legal theory. He is currently working on a book that explores the underlying principles of EU consumer law, as well as several projects on contemporary challenges in commercial law, related to digitalisation, globalisation, and social inequality. The book is based on Szymon’s PhD research, which has been awarded the first prize in the 'Państwo i Prawo' ('Law and State') competition for best PhD dissertations. His research has also received recognition and support from the Foundation for Polish Science, the Common Market Law Review, the Bloomfield International Post-Doctoral Fellowship Fund, and the National Science Centre, Poland.

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Programme Director LLM in Medical Law and Ethics

BA (Amherst College), LLB (Hons) (HKU), BCL (Oxon)

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Daisy is Lecturer of Medical Law and Ethics at Edinburgh Law School. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, she was Deputy Director and Research Fellow of the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law (CMEL) at the University of Hong Kong. She currently remains a Research Fellow of CMEL, and is a member of the Mental Health Law Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong.

Daisy’s research focuses on mental health and capacity law and ethics. She has previously written on a number of issues related to compulsory treatment (both in the hospital and the community) and capacity law in Hong Kong. She has also published on public mental health ethics in the Covid-19 context, and has written on mental capacity law and ethics across several contexts, including two funded projects, one on adult guardianship regimes and one on best interests assessments on behalf of individuals lacking capacity. As a part of the former project, she co-edited a collection on advance medical directives across 16 jurisdictions in Asia (Cambridge University Press 2023).

Her most recent work includes an ongoing project exploring the restoration of decision-making capacity and whether this can be properly accommodated under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in England and Wales. 

 

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