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Following Russia’s invasion into Ukraine on 24 February 2022 and 39 States’ petition to the ICC to open an investigation into the situation, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan QC initiated an investigation on the situation in Ukraine. The investigation opened after the ICC’s preliminary examinations have confirmed reasonable basis to open an investigation.

On 21 February 2022, Russia infamously, and some might claim unfoundedly, invoked the prevention of genocide to justify their invasion of Ukraine. Stating no more than, in the words of Ukraine, “not a single day goes by without Donbas communities coming under shelling attacks,” with “no other supporting evidence”, Russia’s invasion and its invocation of the genocide prevention argument prompted Ukraine to bring forth this dispute to the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) concerning the interpretation, application and fulfilment of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime (“Genocide Convention”). Together with its application, Ukraine also submitted a request for provisional measures to suspend Russia’s military operations which commenced on 24 February 2022.

For more than 16 years, Parahyangan International Law Society has always upheld the pursuit of legal knowledge in the field of international law. Our mission as an organisation centres not only on educating and training future international lawyers, but is also grounded on the common experience law students around the world share in the spirit of friendly competition with the goal of working for justice and peace when we become legal practitioners.

We are proud to announce that Unpar’s Jessup team is advancing as one of five teams representing Indonesia in the international rounds of the 2022 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Consisting of Mahdiyah Basuki (2019), Nadya Theresia (2019), Vania Anastasia Seffany (2019), Shaunelee Alcinia Yani (2020) and Evan Jonathan (2020), the Unpar Jessup team finished as the first runner up in the Jessup competition’s Indonesian national rounds on Sunday, 28 February 2022. Mahdiyah Basuki also took home the third Best Oralist award.

When the pandemic began last year, I had expected that it would soon pass and everything would go back to normal in no time. But I was proven wrong: the new semester began and ended with the pandemic still raging on in full force. That was when I realized that I might very well be competing in the 2021 Vis Moot Competition virtually.

As the 2021 Asia Cup ILMCC season has ended, I look back at my experience competing with incredible fondness. The way Asia Cup works is that qualifying legal memorials determine only one team who will get to represent each country into the international rounds of the competition.