{"id":10768,"date":"2026-04-21T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=10768"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:49:42","slug":"bilkent-jessup-team-success-in-washington-d-c-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=10768","title":{"rendered":"Bilkent Jessup Team: Success in Washington D.C.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Faculty of Law Jessup Team\u2014Pelin&nbsp;Alan,&nbsp;Zeynep&nbsp;Balkan,&nbsp;Do\u011fa&nbsp;Can and&nbsp;\u0130layda&nbsp;Soysal\u2014became the first&nbsp;Bilkent&nbsp;team to participate in the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C. Coached by Asst. Prof. A.&nbsp;Dicle&nbsp;Ergin&nbsp;and Grease Researcher&nbsp;Ye\u015fim&nbsp;K\u00f6seo\u011flu&nbsp;(LAW\/PhD), the team earned a highly selective Exhibition Team spot (one of only eight globally emerging teams) after finishing as national runners-up in \u0130stanbul.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jessup is the world\u2019s largest moot court competition. Among the 850 teams who competed in national rounds globally, 170 teams from more than 90&nbsp;jurisdictions&nbsp;represented&nbsp;their countries in the international rounds. The&nbsp;Bilkent&nbsp;Team won three out of four exhibition matches and actively&nbsp;assisted&nbsp;the International Law Students Association (ILSA) in organizing the event. This milestone offered invaluable global exposure, allowing the students to engage with distinguished international practitioners and UN International Law Commission members. They also had the opportunity to observe a final round presided over by world-renowned legal scholars, including&nbsp;Dapo&nbsp;Akande, professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford and a member of the UN International Law Commission; Soledad&nbsp;Garc\u00eda&nbsp;Mu\u00f1oz, distinguished fellow at the Human Rights Institute of Georgetown Law and the first special rapporteur on ESCER at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; and James Anaya, distinguished professor and former dean at the University of Colorado Law School and former UN special rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Law Jessup Team\u2014Pelin&nbsp;Alan,&nbsp;Zeynep&nbsp;Balkan,&nbsp;Do\u011fa&nbsp;Can and&nbsp;\u0130layda&nbsp;Soysal\u2014became the first&nbsp;Bilkent&nbsp;team to participate in the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C. Coached by Asst. Prof. A.&nbsp;Dicle&nbsp;Ergin&nbsp;and Grease Researcher&nbsp;Ye\u015fim&nbsp;K\u00f6seo\u011flu&nbsp;(LAW\/PhD), the team earned a highly selective Exhibition Team spot (one of only eight globally emerging teams) after<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=10768\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,220,193],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10769,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768\/revisions\/10769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}