2025 Dalferes Laureates Announced

Abena Achiaa Otuo is a Transactional Lawyer at Templars. While studying at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where she earned her LL.B degree, her research focused on protecting internally displaced persons under international human rights, humanitarian, and criminal law.

Abena’s involvement with the Jessup sparked her passion for international trade and cross-border transactions, leading to collaborations with organizations including the UK Department for Business and Trade and the African Continental Free Trade Area.

Since 2018, Abena has actively participated in the Jessup, including emerging as a national round champion and judging memorials and oral rounds. Currently, she serves as the National Administrator of Jessup Ghana and is leading the organization of the largest Jessup national round in Ghana’s history.

Nonso Anyasi is a Doctoral Researcher at the Open Universiteit, Netherlands. He holds an advanced LL.M. degree in International and European Law from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He specializes in data protection law – a passion he picked up from competing in the international rounds of the Jessup 2016 “The Frost Files.” He is a coordinator at Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conferences (CPDP.ai) in Brussels, and leads the CPDP Africa Project. He has judged the Jessup national rounds in several countries since 2021.

Tatiana Squeff is a professor of international law at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). She holds a Ph.D. in international law from UFRGS and a master’s degree from UNISINOS in public law. She was a visiting researcher at the University of Ottawa and the University of Toronto. She was appointed Brazilian expert for the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) and serves as Vice President of International Relations of the American Association of Private International Law (ASADIP). She has been involved with the Jessup Competition since 2007, having served as a competitor, coach, and judge.

Keilin Anderson is a Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge. She has worked as a Judicial Fellow at the International Court of Justice, a Senior Lawyer in Australia’s Office of International Law, an arbitration and litigation lawyer and as an associate and research assistant for judges of the Australian federal and state supreme courts. Keilin holds a Master of Laws from the Australian National University as well as a Bachelor of Laws / Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland. Keilin’s Jessup team made the top 16 teams in the 2017 International Rounds and won the Richard Baxter and Alona Evans Memorials prizes. She then returned to coach the 2018 World Championship team and a 2020 Australian Grand Finalist team. She regularly serves as a Memorials and oral-round judge both at home in Australia and throughout Europe.

Swechhya Sangroula is an academic and advocate based in Nepal. She holds an LL.B. degree from Kathmandu School of Law and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, with a focus on international law, negotiation, and dispute systems design. At Harvard, she was designated a Cogan Scholar for 2018–2019 and mentored LL.M. students for a year after graduation. As an Associate Professor of Law, she currently teaches interpretation of law and jurisprudence. She is a regular resource person for the Nepali Army on international law and has been an editor for a journal run by the Nepali Army for the past four years. She competed in the Jessup in 2015, and coached for three years. She has judged national rounds in Nepal and China, as well as the oral rounds (virtual) and Memorials at the International Rounds. She has also trained aspiring Jessup participants from law schools across Nepal on international law. She credits her years of immersion in Jessup in various capacities for sparking her interest in and building her confidence to engage with international law.