12 student teams will take part in the National Competition in Criminal Justice at VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar"
12 April 2025
12 teams from six universities in the country have confirmed their participation in the National Student Competition in Criminal Law. The event will be held at VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar" on April 5th, 2025 - on the eve of the Constitution Day. The organizers are the Lawyer's Club 'Prof. Tamara Hinova' at the Student Council and the Faculty of Law at Varna Free University.
Some of the most prominent students majoring in Law in Bulgaria will participate in the competition, representing the teams of: the University of National and World Economy, St. Cyril and Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Angel Kanchev Ruse University, Southwestern University "Neofit Rilski", Plovdiv University "Paisiy Hilendarski" and Varna Free University "Chernorizets Hrabar". The student teams will compete in solving cases related to substantive and procedural criminal law. The format of the competition includes practical tasks that will place students in situations requiring analysis, legal argumentation and presentation of decisions before an authoritative jury composed of university lecturers and representatives from practice. The chairman of the jury will be the prominent Bulgarian lawyer and university lecturer Prof. D.Sc. Lazar Gruev - member of the Constitutional Court (2003-2007) and chairman of the Supreme Court of Cassation (2007 - 2014). The jury will include two habilitated lecturers, a judge and a prosecutor.
Varna Free University "Chernorizets Hrabar" will provide the participants with excellent conditions for conducting the stages of the competition, as well as an opportunity to enrich knowledge and exchange good practices between the different university law schools.
You can find more information about the upcoming National Student Competition in Criminal Justice here ►