The Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot
Save the date:
The 24th edition of the Oxford IP Moot is scheduled to take place in Oxford from Wednesday 17 to Saturday 20 March 2027. The moot is expected to follow the usual schedule in which the Opening Ceremony takes place on the evening of Wednesday 17 March; the four preliminary rounds take place on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 March; and the finals take place on Saturday 20 March. There are a number of events associated with the moot, including the Welcome Dinner (Wednesday), Tangentum Lecture and Dinner (Friday) and Gala Dinner and Prize Giving Ceremony (Saturday).
The problem will relate to artificial intelligence and copyright. A schedule of dates will be released in due course, along with a copy of the problem. The moot will follow the usual structure in which teams write two written submissions (due in December), with invitations to attend the oral proceedings issued in January 2027.
The previous moot:
The 23rd edition of the Oxford IP Moot was held in Oxford from 25 to 28 March 2026. The Grand Final was held before Lord Kitchin (former judge of the UK Supreme Court), Lord Justice Birss (Chancellor of the High Court and judge of the Court of Appeal of England & Wales) and Mr Justice Mellor (High Court of England & Wales). Congratulations to the University of New South Wales and Bucerius Law School, who were winners and runners-up, respectively, in the Grand Final of the 2026 moot.
This moot problem related to the case Aggarwal & Roper Television Productions v Holly-Jaye Hayes [2025] HCE 190. The legal issues covered breach of confidence, contracts in restraint of trade and performers' moral rights. A PDF of the problem (as originally released) is available here. A PDF of the rules is available here. The key change in the rules related to the registration fee, which was revised to differentiate between teams with two mooters in attendance in Oxford and those with three mooters in attendance. The Corrections and Clarifications for the 2026 problem are available here (and an updated version of the Problem with the changes from the Corrections and Clarifications here).
Teams Invited to the Oral Proceedings:
Australian National University, Australia
Bucerius Law School, Germany
DM Harish School of Law, HSNC University, India
Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
Hidayatullah National Law University, India
King's College London, UK
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Maastricht University, Netherlands
McGill University, Canada
National Law School of India University, India
National Law University, Jodhpur, India
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Singapore Management University, Singapore
Symbiosis Law School, Pune, India
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, India
Tsinghua University, China
Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
University College London, UK
University of Cambridge, UK
University of Chicago, USA
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
University of New South Wales, Australia
University of Ottawa, Canada
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
University of Toronto, Canada
University of Virginia, USA
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
