The Duke team was made up of:

Pirouzan Parvine (LLM 2001)
Kevin Paul (JD/LLM 2002)
Thibaud Van Rillas (LLM 2001)
Diana Weed (JD/LLM 2002)

The team was coached by Mike Perry (LLM 2000). The faculty adviser was Professor Michael Byers.

"Participating in the Rousseau Moot greatly increases Duke Law School's profile around the world," Byers said. "After only two years of sending teams to this competition, we are already better know in some francophone countries than any other American law school. This will increase applications from foreign students to the LLM program, create more international job opportunities for our students, and facilitate the increasingly international work of our alumni."

In the preliminary rounds, Duke competed head-to-head with McGill University (Canada), Timisoara University (Romania), Kinshasa University (Congo), and the University of Rennes (France). They prevailed in two of the four preliminary rounds, over Timisoara and Kinshasa, and finished sixth overall on points.

Kevin Paul led the Duke team with a strong twelfth place performance in the individual awards.

The overall competition was won by the Free University of Brussels, with McGill University as runner-up.

Professor Michael Byers was greatly pleased with the Duke team's performance.

"It is an enormous accomplishment simply to be competitive arguing in a second language in an international event of this caliber," he said. "And the Duke students were more than competitive: even the best of teams took them very seriously indeed. They were contenders, and I am extremely proud of them."

Related Links:

• Read about Duke's successful debut at the 2000 Rousseau Moot Court Competition
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• Read general information about the Rousseau Moot Court Competition and other international moot court competitions
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• Read more about Duke Law School's Moot Court program