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Lucerne Academy scholarship awarded
Scholarship for the best oralist of the Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competitition
The Lucerne Academy is proud to announce that the best oralist of the Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition Ms. Juliana da Cunha Mota USP - Universidade de São Paulo of Brazil has won a Lucerne Academy scholarship including a full tuition waiver and also covering her housing expenses during the Lucerne Academy session 2016. We are looking forward to welcome Ms. da Cunha Mota in July 2016. Congratulations to the best oralist!
TheLucerne Academy 2022 is directed by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Heselhaus.
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Heselhaus is a specialist in Human Rights Law. He is co-editor of one of the first commentaries on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. He teaches Comparative Human Rights Law and is supervisor of prominent moot courts such as the René Cassin Moot Court on the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Law Moot Court. Further fields of expertise of Prof. Heselhaus are Environmental Law and Energy Law. He is co-founder and Managing Director of the Center for Law and Sustainability at the University of Lucerne and Task Coordinator in the Swiss Competence Center on Energy Research (SCCER) CREST. Prof. Heselhaus has taught various courses in the UK, the USA and Lithuania. In October 2015 Prof. Heselhaus was appointed a Director of the Lucerne Academy for Human Rights Implementation. In the Lucerne Academy he will be teaching an introductory class on human rights protection comparing major international human rights treaties.
