Eastern University wins Bangladesh round of Philip C Jessup moot court competition

The team qualifies for the international rounds of the competition and will represent Bangladesh at the global stage

Eastern University has won the 10th Bangladesh Qualifying Round of the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2026, defeating the University of Dhaka’s Faculty of Law moot court team in the final round.

With the victory, Eastern University has qualified for the international rounds of the competition and will represent Bangladesh at the global stage.

The winning team included Sakib Khandaker as researcher, Zarin Sadaf Lopa and Parisha Mehejabin as oralists, and Md Sakib Sarkar as additional researcher. The team was coached by ABM Imdadul Haque Khan and Md Omar Faruk Tamim.

Organisers said the team secured the national title through strong legal research, structured arguments and confident courtroom advocacy.

A reception ceremony was held on Saturday at Rezakul Haider Hall on the Eastern University campus to mark the achievement. The university’s Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Farid Ahmed Sobhani, Treasurer Prof Md Shamsul Huda and Registrar Dr Abul Bashar Khan congratulated the team.

Faculty members and students from the Department of Law, along with heads of other academic departments, were present at the event.

This year’s Bangladesh national round, which featured 48 law schools, was the largest Jessup national competition in South Asia and the third largest in the world, organisers said.

Of the 10 Bangladesh qualifying rounds held so far, Eastern University has qualified for the international stage six times, including four championship titles and two runner-up finishes.

The Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is the world’s largest moot court competition for law students and is widely known as the “World Cup of Mooting”.

The Bangladesh Qualifying Round of Jessup 2026 was organised by Jessup Bangladesh and the ILSA Bangladesh Chapter, with support from Hearth Bangladesh, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and AIUB. This was the 10th consecutive year the competition was held in Bangladesh.