The court debate of the 2022 International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition (English) (ICCMCC 2022) was held online on March 26th and 27th. The team of the KoGuan School of Law of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) was awarded the national first prize, as it secured the national fourth place after three rounds of court debate, producing the best results since the first time SJTU took part in the event.

As the first permanent international criminal judiciary authorities established by the international community, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has played a significant role in combating international crimes and building a unified international criminal law system. The Chinese government has been consistently supportive of punishing crimes seriously damaging the common interests of the human society and focused on the work of the ICC.

The ICCMCC (English) China Trials are held every March, aimed at nurturing specialists in international criminal law and enhancing the ability of Chinese students to engage in court debate with English. The ICCMCC 2022 saw a record number of teams, as 54 teams from some of China's top universities participated in the competition, such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, China University of Political Science and Law, East China University of Political Science and Law and SJTU.

The ICCMCC 2022 is scheduled to have the Problem-solving Question Round and the Oral Round. The team of the SJTU KoGuan School of Law has been enthusiastically and rigorously involved in studying the competition and retrieving legal information since it was established in September, 2021. To submit better answers to the Problem-solving Question, the team worked around the clock during their winter break in discussing and studying controversial issues and optimizing their argumentation in an effort to submit the legal opinion to the best of their ability. They finally made it into the court debate.

The team has 13 members, including Gu Ke'er, Chen Sunqi, Hu Yuqing, Yu Yue, Xiang Duohan, Cao Lin, Hu Jiarui, Liu Manlin, Li Yichen, Cheng Jiarui, Miao Xinyue, Shi Wenyan and Hu Chen, of whom Gu Ke'er was the lead. For the English competition, Chen Sunqi, Yu Yue and Cao Lin were the court debaters, Hu Yuqing and Hu Chen the researchers, and Miao Xinyue and Shi Wenyan the coaches. The team was supervised by Xu Xiaobing.