ABOUT moot court

The competition upholds its reputation as a premier national moot, promoting intellectual rigour and legal excellence drawing participation from top law schools, offering students a platform to engage with pressing legal issues and develop essential advocacy skills. In each of the previous editions of our institution’s moot court competitions, we engaged in discussions on significant topics of relevance, including environmental challenges and constitutional law, the intersection of artificial intelligence and criminal liability, as well as refugee laws.This year’s St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara Moot Court Competition, 2025 examines whether International Criminal Court of Justice (ICJ) can prosecute war crimes committed by an official of a non-party State. It explores the legitimacy of an arrest warrant aimed at concerns of political bias, the tension between State sovereignty and international accountability as well as application of self-defence in international humanitarian law (IHL). The moot problem raises key issues about jurisdiction, procedural integrity and the enforcement of international justice.